Supply chain risk management: sharing information and exploring uncertainty

Stefan Minner is a Full Professor for Logistics and Supply Chain Management at the School of Management, Technical University of Munich (TUM) and a core-member of the Munich Data Science Institute (MDSI). Currently, he is the acting Vice Dean of Research and Innovation at TUM School of Management. His research interests using methods of operations research, artificial intelligence and machine learning are in global supply chain design, transportation optimization and inventory management. His work was published in many peer reviewed journals, including Management Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Operations Research, Production and Operations Management, Transportation Science, Transportation Research Parts B, C and E, European Journal of Operational Research, and the International Journal of Production Research. For his research output, he is currently listed among the top 1% business professors in German speaking countries by Wirtschaftswoche and among the top 2% researchers worldwide in a citation-based ranking by Stanford University. He serves on several editorial boards of logistics and operations research journals. Currently, Stefan Minner is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Production Economics. Stefan Minner is a fellow of the International Society for Inventory Research (ISIR) and the International Foundation of Production Research (IFPR). He received the PhD supervisory award at TUM School of Management in 2024 and the Science Award for his lifetime achievements by the German Operations Research Society in 2025.