• Purchasing Strategy
• Elements of Purchasing in Nature
• Behavioral aspects in Purchasing
• Digitalization in Purchasing
• Value of Supplier Innovation
• Parametric Purchasing Auctions
• Working Capital Management
• Buyer-Supplier Relationships
• Supplier Quality and Supply Management

Articles

• Investigating the impact of smart manufacturing on firms' operational and financial performance

• The Impact of Industry 4.0 on Business Performance: A Multiple Case Study in the Automotive Sector

• What Drives I4.0 Adoption? Establishing the Importance of Strategy

• Linking competitive priorities, smart manufacturing advancement and organizational microfoundations

• The Interplay between Industry 4.0 Technologies and Business Performance: Evidence from a Multiple Case Study in the Automotive Sector

• The role of absorptive capacity in the adoption of Smart Manufacturing

• A holistic model for understanding the dynamics of outsourcing

• Risk aversion in the supply chain: Evidence from replenishment decisions

• Where the Rubber Meets the Road. Industry 4.0 Among SMEs in the Automotive Sector

• An exploratory study of risk aversion in supply chain dynamics via human experiment and agent-based simulation

Chapters

• Enabling digital business ecosystems: an empirical analysis of the impact of smart manufacturing technologies on firms’ financial performance

• Exploring the Link Between Strategy and Smart Manufacturing Adoption: A Study in the Automotive Industry

• Opportunities in Emerging Markets – Purchasing with Start-ups

• The Environmental SustainabilitySustainability Puzzle in Purchasing Can Be Solved by Adding CO2-Values to the Technology Dimension in Multi-dimensional Dynamic SourcingsDynamic sourcings

• Ansatzpunkte für Digitalisierung im Gestaltungsbereich des Einkaufs

• The Effect of Digitalization Is Measurable – How Transparency on the CCC Creates Momentum for Working Capital Management?

• Stairway to Heaven: How Firms Build Absorptive Capacity to Succeed in Industry 4.0

• Supplier Risk Tower: The Vigilant Eye on Supply Chains

• Industry 4.0: Adopted Technologies, Performance Outcomes and Good Practices: A Study among Suppliers of the Automotive Industry

• Towards Efficient Financial Supply Chains: How to Leverage Inter-organizational Working Capital by Digitalizing the Financial Flows

Books

• The Nature of Purchasing Insights from Research and Practice: Insights from Research and Practice

• Digitalisierung im Einkauf

• Versorgungsstrategien in der Logistik

Conference papers

• Leveraging inter-organizational working capital management by digitalizing the financial flows in the supply chain

• Value Destruction: The New Perspective_Beyond waste lies destruction

• Competing with negative cycle time of working capital in the ICT industry

• Working capital management in the value chain of automotive industry

Technische Universität Berlin

Dr.-Ing., Logistics, Materials, and Supply Chain Management

1999 - 2003

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

Dipl. Wi.-Ing.

Oct 1993 - 1998

Mitglied des Beirats

BLG LOGISTICS GROUP AG & Co. KG

Jan 2017 - Present · 7 yrs 4 mos

Bremen, Deutschland

Head of Purchasing and Supplier Management, Automotive Technologies

Schaeffler · Full-time

May 2010 - Present · 14 yrs