Projektdetails

DFG project SuPerPlan: Sustainable personnel planning for companies with fluctuating demand

This project belongs to the research theme of the University of Passau “Digitalisation, Networked Society and (Internet) Cultures”. Digital technologies, increasing competition and growing sophistication of demand incentivise companies to produce individualised products with short lead times and at low costs. This calls for restructuring of production processes, for instance by increasing flexibility of work assignments to employees (and robots) via work sharing. Work sharing implies that some tasks can be performed in an alternating or collaborative manner by groups of workers and/or robots according to rules specified by the planners. Work sharing has a potential to decrease idle times and reduce production cost. Moreover, we regard work sharing as an example of sustainable personnel planning, because it relies on skilled stem personnel as opposed to temporary workers. However, complexity of operations management increases. In this project, we develop suitable planning approaches for production systems that employ work sharing.

Principal Investigator(s) at the University	Prof. Dr. Alena Otto (Lehrstuhl für Betriebswirtschaftslehre mit Schwerpunkt Management Science / Operations and Supply Chain Management)
Project period	01.02.2020 - 31.01.2022
Source of funding	DFG - Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft > DFG - Sachbeihilfe
Projektnummer	OT 500/4-1 AOBJ: 655436
Themenfelder	Betriebswirtschaftslehre