TY - JOUR A1 - Schwab, E. A1 - Pogrebnoj, S. A1 - Freund, M. A1 - Flossmann, F. A1 - Vogl, Stefanie A1 - Frommolt, K.-H. T1 - Automated bat call classification using deep convolutional neural networks JF - Bioacoustics N2 - Identification of bats is most practically done by exploiting the characteristic features of their echolocation calls. This usually involves expert knowledge, expensive equipment and time-consuming post processing of previously recorded calls. Automated solutions exist, but are usually not as accurate as human experts. We present an automated solution for the processing of bat calls and identification of bat species with extremely high classification accuracy that can be used during live recording or in an automated post-processing software. Our algorithm is the first application of a Deep Convolutional Neural Network to classify bat species based on sound spectrogram images of their echolocation calls. We tested several deep CNN architectures including a modified Google Inception and a ResNet50 architecture. The nets were trained on a very large call database consisting of images of snippets of call spectrograms. All our software was developed in the Python programming language and an executable of the software is available on request. KW - image classification KW - Bat call KW - neural network KW - secholocation Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/09524622.2022.2050816 SP - 1 EP - 16 PB - Taylor & Francis ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Könning, Michael A1 - Westner, Markus A1 - Strahringer, Susanne T1 - A Systematic Review of Recent Developments in IT Outsourcing Research JF - Information Systems Management N2 - Incomplete conceptualization of the information technology outsourcing (ITO) literature represents a challenge for navigating extant research and engaging into purposeful academic discourse. We extend the analysis of empirical findings on determinants of ITO decisions, outcomes, and governance. We identify increasing levels of research maturity, analyze effects of 38 new independent variables, highlight contradictory findings, and observe increasing interest in emerging topics such as innovation through ITO and multisourcing. KW - Outsourcing KW - Informationstechnik KW - Literaturbericht KW - Information Technology KW - Outsourcing KW - Literature Review KW - Sourcing outcomes KW - Sourcing decisions Y1 - 2019 UR - https://doi.org/10.1080/10580530.2018.1553650 VL - 36 IS - 1 SP - 78 EP - 96 PB - Taylor & Francis ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kobus, Jörn A1 - Westner, Markus A1 - Strahringer, Susanne T1 - Enabling digitization by implementing Lean IT BT - Lessons learned JF - The TQM Journal N2 - Purpose With the rise of digitization, IT organizations are challenged to provide efficient service delivery and offer innovative digital solutions while maintaining a constant resource capacity. To address this challenge, some IT organizations have adopted Lean Management (LM). Although LM is a standard production mode in manufacturing, it is less familiar to IT organizations. The purpose of this paper is to identify 12 lessons learned from companies who implemented LM in their IT organization (Lean IT) to free up their IT resource capacity from existing day-to-day operations so they could use it to enable their digitization strategy. Design/methodology/approach A case study of two major international companies from different industries. Data were collected from 25 structured interviews. Findings The lessons learned provide insights into how these companies implemented Lean IT, the potential outcomes they aimed for, what they did to achieve those outcomes, how they facilitated the implementation of Lean IT, and restrictions they encountered during the implementation. Research limitations/implications The findings are based on a limited range of IT organizations. Practical implications The lessons learned inform those implementing Lean IT because they explain how companies have implemented Lean IT to facilitate digitization and the benefits and pitfalls they encountered. A comparison of Lean IT and Lean Production shows that LM is transferable to IT organizations if domain specific requirements are respected. Originality/value This paper reports the unique experience of companies implementing Lean IT, which can inform other companies in a similar situation. KW - Digitization KW - IT management KW - IT organization KW - Lean management KW - Unternehmen KW - Informationstechnik KW - Lean Management KW - Digitalisierung Y1 - 2018 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/TQM-02-2018-0026 VL - 30 IS - 6 SP - 764 EP - 778 PB - Emerald insight ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kopper, Andreas A1 - Westner, Markus A1 - Strahringer, Susanne T1 - Kontrollierte Nutzung von Schatten-IT JF - HMD Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik N2 - Basierend auf einer systematischen und umfangreichen Analyse von Praxisbeiträgen zum Thema Schatten-IT, die zwischen September 2015 und August 2016 erschienen sind, beschreibt der vorliegende Artikel Governance-Aspekte zu diesem Phänomen. Er ergänzt damit vorhergehende akademische Studien. Es zeigt sich, dass unter Praktikern der Eindruck vorherrscht, dass IT-Abteilungen unter zunehmendem Druck stehen, schneller auf sich ändernde Anforderungen aus den Fachbereichen reagieren zu müssen. Können IT-Abteilungen diesen Erwartungen nicht entsprechen, beschaffen sich Fachbereiche und Nutzer selbst Lösungen in Form von Schatten-IT. Als mögliche Antwort darauf kann sich die IT-Abteilung agiler organisieren und die IT-Architektur im Unternehmen modernisieren. Eine weitere Möglichkeit besteht darin, sich das innovative Potenzial von Schatten-IT zunutze zu machen und deren Umsetzung aktiv durch organisatorische und technische Maßnahmen zu unterstützen. IT-Sicherheitsmanagement und technische Schutzmechanismen können helfen, die so entstandenen Lösungen abzusichern und die Risiken zu minimieren. Nach vorherrschender Ansicht entwickelt sich die IT-Abteilung als Konsequenz aus all diesen Maßnahmen zu einem nutzerorientierten, internen Service-Provider und strategischen Partner für die Fachbereiche. T2 - Controlled Use of Shadow IT KW - Schatten-IT KW - IT-Governance KW - Agilität KW - IT-Sicherheit KW - IT-Abteilung KW - Corporate Governance KW - Agilität KW - Datensicherung Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1365/s40702-016-0286-x VL - 54 SP - 97 EP - 110 PB - Springer ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kobus, Jörn A1 - Westner, Markus A1 - Strahringer, Susanne T1 - Einführung von Lean Management in IT-Organisationen JF - HMD Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik N2 - In der Produktion gilt „Lean Management“ als einer der de-facto Standardmanagementansätze. Lean Management in IT-Organisationen (Lean IT) ist dahingegen in der Praxis weniger verbreitet und in der Wissenschaft kaum erforscht. Dieser Beitrag aggregiert und erweitert die Ergebnisse mehrerer Forschungsarbeiten. Dabei werden vorrangig zwei Aspekte diskutiert: (1) Ein mögliches Einführungsmodell für Lean IT. Dieses verknüpft fünf Rollen (Sponsor, Programmleiter, Navigator, Linienführungskraft und Linienexperte) mit vier Phasen (Vorbereitung, Analyse, Gestaltung und Implementierung). (2) Besondere Herausforderungen für Linienführungskräfte, die aufgrund der „bottom up“-Ausrichtung bei Lean-IT-Einführungen stark gefordert werden. Neben einer klaren Vision für die Organisationseinheit und dem Verständnis, an welcher Stelle Lean IT die Organisationseinheit konkret unterstützen kann, benötigen sie Offenheit, Veränderungswillen und die Bereitschaft Verantwortung an Mitarbeiter zu delegieren. Außerdem sollten sie über ein ausreichendes Zeitbudget für die Einführung verfügen, um ihrer gestaltenden und qualitätssichernden Funktion nachkommen zu können. KW - Betriebliches Informationssystem KW - Lean Management KW - Lean IT KW - IT-Industrialisierung KW - Lean Management KW - IT-Effizienzprogramme KW - Einführungsmodell Y1 - 2016 UR - https://link.springer.com/article/10.1365/s40702-016-0266-1 VL - 53 IS - 6 SP - 879 EP - 893 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bary, Benedikt von A1 - Westner, Markus A1 - Strahringer, Susanne T1 - Adding experts’ perceptions to complement existing research on information systems backsourcing JF - International Journal of Information Systems and Project Management N2 - This paper extends the existing literature on information systems (IS) backsourcing by the perception of practitioners. For this purpose, we conducted a series of qualitative, semistructured interviews with IS sourcing experts. The interview questions focused on the participants’ perceptions and experiences with the topic, on identifying reasons for and against IS backsourcing, and on revealing relevant trends pertinent to IS backsourcing. We then compared those findings with two previously conducted comprehensive literature reviews on academic and practitioner literature on IS backsourcing. By following this approach, we contribute to the existing research by verifying previous findings, for example, the most important reasons why companies decide in favor of IS backsourcing. Additionally, we were able to enhance previous contributions as we highlight the significance of differentiating between the scope of IS backsourcing by looking at the underlying services which are potentially backsourced. Further, we identified the importance of managers’ personal preferences as an additional reason for IS backsourcing, for example, based on personal experiences or a perceived need for change. Based on our findings, we created a comprehensive overview of all aspects connected to the IS backsourcing process and derived opportunities for further research to contribute to the IS backsourcing research agenda. KW - backsourcing KW - insourcing KW - back in-house KW - information systems KW - expert interviews KW - Betriebliches Informationssystem KW - Insourcing KW - Umfrage Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.12821/ijispm060402 SN - 2182-7788 VL - 6 IS - 4 SP - 17 EP - 35 PB - SciKA ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Strasser, Artur A1 - Westner, Markus T1 - Information systems offshoring BT - Results of a systematic literature review JF - Journal of Information Technology Management N2 - An increasing amount of IS offshoring research has been published during the last four years. This paper presents a comprehensive view of the field of study from a managerial point of view. It provides a consolidated view of the field of study between 2010 and 2013 based on a manual search comprising 69 selected journals and 9 conferences, as well as a search using 6 journal databases. The literature review ensures continuity of research by connecting to a comprehensive literature analysis covering the years 1999 to 2009. This way it consolidates and critically reflects the state of the research of the last 14 years. Overall, we compiled 95 relevant publications originating from leading IS journals and IS conference proceedings. The results indicate that IS offshoring research is largely non-theory based, using almost entirely empirical data and interpretive research methods and -to a smaller extent -positivist research designs. The ISO research of the last 14 years focuses on the implementation stages "how" and "outcome" while the pre-implementation-stages “why”, “what”, and “which” are comparatively sparsely researched. Future studies should apply a more theory-driven approach with a greater attention on pre-implementation aspects of information systems offshoring. In addition, future research should investigate the special nature of near- and onshoring, captive offshoring as well asagile (project) management techniques suitable for ISO. KW - Betriebliches Informationssystem KW - Offshoring KW - Literaturbericht KW - Offshoring KW - Nearshoring KW - Information systems KW - Information technology KW - Literature review Y1 - 2015 UR - http://jitm.ubalt.edu/XXVI-2/article5.pdf VL - 26 IS - 2 SP - 70 EP - 142 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kobus, Jörn A1 - Westner, Markus A1 - Strahringer, Susanne A1 - Strode, Diane T1 - Lean Management in IT Organizations BT - A Ranking-type Delphi Study of Implementation Success Factors JF - Journal of Information Technology Theory and Application (JITTA) N2 - Lean management (LM) is well established in manufacturing organizations, and LM adoption in service organizations has recently increased. However, we lack research that focuses on the success of lean management implementations in IT organizations (lean IT). This paper contributes to knowledge of the success factors of lean IT implementation and the relative importance of each factor based on the insights of field experts. The experts identified, agreed on, and ranked 12 implementation success factors for lean IT in a Delphi study using the best/worst scaling technique. The most important factors were leadership involvement, change culture and work ethic, employee involvement, and performance management. Factors of intermediate importance were implementation facilitation, training and education, clear vision and direction, long-term focus, communication, and a holistic approach. Least important factors were existing skills, organizational changes/standardization, and financial resources. This paper contributes a more nuanced understanding of the relative importance of lean IT success factors, proposes relationships between them, and comprehensively explains how to use the rigorous best/worst scaling method in a traditional ranking-type Delphi study. KW - Lean Management KW - Informationstechnik KW - Lean Management KW - Information technology Y1 - 2018 UR - https://aisel.aisnet.org/jitta/vol19/iss1/4/ SN - 1532-3416 VL - 19 IS - 1 SP - 55 EP - 85 PB - Association for Information Systems (AIS) ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bary, Benedikt von A1 - Westner, Markus T1 - Information Systems Backsourcing BT - A Literature Review JF - Journal of Information Technology Management N2 - Information systems backsourcing describes the transferof previously outsourced activities, assets, or personnel back to the originating companyto regain ownership and control. While there is much research on information systems outsourcing, the topic of backsourcing information systemsis still an emerging research area. Therefore, ourpaper aims to explore and synthesizethe existing literature on information systemsbacksourcing, since there is no exhaustiveliteraturereview of the state of the research to our knowledge available yet. In this paper, wecreate a framework to structure the existing research along the overallbacksourcing process. We identifydifferent motivators, such asexpectation gaps, orinternal and external organizational changes, leading towards a backsourcing decision, and factors positively or negatively influencing this decision. Additionally, we derive implementation success factors based on the existing literature to guide companies through the backsourcing process.We also differentiate the term backsourcing from related, sometimes synonymously used terms, by emphasizing the change of ownership back to the company of originas the main criterion.Additionally, we discuss opportunities for future research in the field of information systems backsourcing. KW - Betriebliches Informationssystem KW - Insourcing KW - Literaturbericht KW - Backsourcing KW - Backshoring KW - Reshoring KW - Inshoring KW - Information systems KW - Information technology KW - Literature review Y1 - 2018 UR - http://jitm.ubalt.edu/XXIX-1/article4.pdf VL - 29 IS - 1 SP - 62 EP - 78 PB - University of Tehran ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kobus, Jörn A1 - Westner, Markus A1 - Strahringer, Susanne T1 - Change management lessons learned for Lean IT implementations JF - International Journal of Information Systems and Project Management N2 - Lean Management is a standard production mode that has been familiar to production organizations for several decades. To date, however, academic literature has presented surprisingly little information about the application of Lean Management in Information Technology (IT) organizations, or what is called Lean IT. Drawing upon an empirical qualitative case study of the IT departments of two multinational companies, in this paper we identify change management lessons learned for Lean IT implementations, as well as seven characteristics of a corresponding change management approach. As an extension of our work, researchers should validate and expand our initial findings, preferably in a quantitative setting. KW - Betriebliches Informationssystem KW - Lean Management KW - Fallstudiensammlung KW - Lean Management KW - Lean IT KW - Implementation KW - Case study KW - Lessons learned Y1 - 2017 UR - https://doi.org/10.12821/ijispm050103 VL - 5 IS - 1 SP - 47 EP - 60 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Könning, Michael A1 - Heinrich, Kai A1 - Leyh, Christian A1 - Westner, Markus T1 - A quantitative analysis of culture-induced differences in pivotal IT outsourcing contract features T2 - Proceedings of the 27th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2019): Stockholm & Uppsala, Sweden, June 8-14 N2 - More than 30 years after its first implementation, IT outsourcing (ITO) is unanimously considered a critical component of corporate strategy for private and public institutions alike. While implementations of ITO around the world share some common characteristics like typical reasons for outsourcing, key success factors, or dimensions along which they can be classified, extant research also points to regional differences. However, research on this topic, specifically regarding pivotal contract features like contract value, contract length, or pricing methods, is still in its infancy, and quantitative analyses on the subject are particularly scarce. We address this research gap by analyzing data on 14,917 ITO contracts closed between 2007 and 2017 through the lens of cultural regions and three statistical methods. The contribution of our paper is threefold. First, our descriptive analysis points to globally decreasing contract lengths and contract values, confirming previous studies and practice reports. Second, an ANOVA with independent post-hoc testing provides quantitative supportfor the degree of dissimilarity among individual regions in pivotal ITO contract features. Finally, our quantitative replication of a previous study identifies culture-induced regional differences between USA and Japan regarding the effect of influence factors on ITO contract features. KW - IT Sourcing KW - IT Outsourcing KW - Sourcing Strategy KW - Contract Design KW - Cultural Regions KW - Betriebliches Informationssytem KW - Outsourcing KW - Vertrag KW - Kultur Y1 - 2019 UR - https://aisel.aisnet.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1115&context=ecis2019_rp SP - 1 EP - 15 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Wulf, Frederik A1 - Westner, Markus A1 - Schön, Maximilian A1 - Strahringer, Susanne A1 - Loebbecke, Claudia T1 - Preparing for a Digital Future: Cloud Strategy at Continental AG T2 - Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2019): Munich, Germany, December 15-18 N2 - This paper is directed towards IT executives aiming to promote the adoption of cloud computing (CC) with in their company. We conducted a longitudinal case study on the evolving CC strategy and its implementation at the multinational company Continental, based on a previous case study by Loebbecke et al. (2012). We narrate Continental's pathway towards CC adoption, which comprised the experimentation, professionalization, and utilization of CC, and discuss current and previous barriers encountered during the implementation. We derive five lessons learned that can serve as practical guidance for executives aiming to accelerate CC adoption within their own organization: (1) differentiate the CC strategy by delivery model; (2)drive proof of concepts to generate reusable blueprints; (3) preinvest in the integration of IaaS and PaaS providers; (4) implement CC gradually, transforming applications during the transition to the cloud; and (5) disseminate knowledge within the organization to enable change. KW - Cloud Computing KW - Strategy KW - Implementation KW - Adoption KW - Knowledge transfer KW - Cloud Computing KW - Implementierung Y1 - 2019 UR - https://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2019/practice_is_research/practice_is_research/1/ SP - 1 EP - 16 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Grundler, Andreas A1 - Westner, Markus T1 - Scaling Agile Frameworks vs. Traditional Project Portfolio Management BT - Comparison and Analysis T2 - Proceedings of the International Conferences on Internet Technologies & Society (ITS 2019), Hongkong N2 - Practitioners have developed numerous frameworks around scaling agile and lean methods. These frameworks are more frequently being used in practice in large-scale system development activities. Therefore, they are in the scope of project portfolio management. The paper examines the conformity of selected scaling agile frameworks to the objectives of project portfolio management through qualitative analysis. Four prominent frameworks are investigated: Scrum of Scrums, Large cale Scrum, Disciplined Agile, and the Scaled Agile Framework. The study shows significant differences between the frameworks and their view on project portfolio management with the Scaled Agile Framework offering the most detailed portfolio management-relevant processes and roles. In contrast to that, Large Scale Scrum does not see the need for portfolio management but promotes self-managing teams. Two of the four frameworks share the perception shift from projects to the products, which has significant implications for practitioners because it challenges and redefines prevalent management roles and practices. KW - Project Portfolio Management KW - PPM KW - Scaling Agile Frameworks KW - Agile at Large KW - Agile Softwareentwicklung KW - SAFe 〈Informatik〉 KW - Projektmanagement KW - Portfoliomanagement Y1 - 2019 UR - http://www.iadisportal.org/digital-library/scaling-agile-frameworks-vs-traditional-roject-portfolio-management-comparison-and-analysis SN - 978-989-8533-84-5 SP - 51 EP - 62 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Westner, Markus A1 - Strahringer, Susanne T1 - Determinants of success in IS offshoring projects BT - Results from an empirical study of German companies JF - Information & Management N2 - High labor cost in western countries allows cost savings by companies engaging in IS offshoring. However, studies worldwide indicate that a large number of companies that engaged in IS offshoring are not satisfied with the outcome. Our study examined the determinants of IS offshore project success: We developed a model and empirically tested it with data collected from 304 experts who reported on projects offshored from Germany to a wide range of near and distant countries. The model posited a direct effect of offshoring expertise and trust in offshore service provider (OSP) on success, as well as an indirect effect mediated by project suitability, knowledge transfer, and liaison quality. An analysis using partial least squares (PLSs) provided significant support for almost all these relationships. However, it showed that offshoring expertise played a minor role in explaining success and the mediating constructs. Trust in OSP had a small direct effect on success and a medium to large effect on the mediating constructs. Project suitability, knowledge transfer, and liaison quality all had small direct effects on success. KW - Betriebliches Informationssystem KW - Offshoring KW - Wissensmanagement KW - Qualitätsmanagement KW - Information systems offshoring KW - Offshore project success KW - Project suitability KW - Knowledge transfer KW - Liaison quality KW - Offshoring expertise KW - Trust in offshore service provider KW - Partial least squares Y1 - 2010 UR - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.im.2010.06.003 VL - 47 IS - 5-6 SP - 291 EP - 299 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Zemler, Florian A1 - Westner, Markus T1 - Blockchain and GDPR BT - Application Scenarios and Compliance Requirements T2 - Proceedings of the 30th Portland International Conference for Management of Engineering an Technology (PICMET), 2019, Portland, Oregon N2 - Blockchain and the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) are two topics that are currently highly discussed in academia and amongst professionals. The Blockchain technology is claimed to revolutionize how business is being conducted by its way of storing data and sharing it with others. The recently introduced GDPR has a huge impact on processing personal data because it brought major changes to privacy regulation. This might also affect the processing of personal data in Blockchain-based application scenarios. Based on literature analysis, the paper at hand provides an overview of the Blockchain technology, presents a decision model, and introduces two possible Blockchain application scenarios. It analyses relevant requirements of the GDPR in view of processing personal data and compares these with the fundamental principles of the Blockchain technology. The paper concludes that processing personal data in the Blockchain is violating the GDPR because it conflicts with fundamental specification of this regulation. This finding reveals the need for further research to propose concepts and frameworks for a GDPR-compliant processing of personal data using Blockchain technology. KW - Blockchain KW - GDPR KW - Blockchain KW - Europäische Union KW - Datenschutz-Grundverordnung Y1 - 2019 UR - https://doi.org/10.23919/PICMET.2019.8893923 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Westner, Markus A1 - Strahringer, Susanne T1 - The current state of IS offshoring in Germany BT - Project characteristics and success patterns JF - Journal of Information Technology Management N2 - This paper empirically examines the current state of the IS offshoring phenomenon in Germany regarding project characteristics and success patterns. Relying on a sample of 304 projects conducted at various industry sectors and companies, results show that IS offshoring primarily occurs in sectors Telecommunications and IT at large corporations. Cost reduction is the main reason for going offshore and offshore projects are executed as part of a larger program at companies. Noticeably, most projects are delivered from India. Additionally, neither captive offshoring nor offshore outsourcing dominates as a de-livery option. Comparing different project subgroups regarding project success, the results reveal that projects delivered by an internal or partially owned service provider are more successful. Other project characteristics such as a project’s embedded-ness in a larger offshoring program, a project’s size, or a project’s offshoring degree in terms of relatively offshored labor hours show few significant differences. The paper addresses the paucity of empirical research on the current state of the IS offshoring phenomenon in Germany. KW - Offshoring KW - Nearshoring KW - Information systems sourcing KW - Outcome KW - Project success KW - Success factor KW - Betriebliches Informationssystem KW - Offfshoring Y1 - 2010 UR - http://jitm.ubalt.edu/XXI-1/article4.pdf VL - 21 IS - 1 SP - 49 EP - 70 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Westner, Markus A1 - Strahringer, Susanne T1 - Evaluation criteria for selecting offshoring candidates BT - An analysis of practices in German businesses JF - Journal of Information Technology Management N2 - The identification of suitable applications or projects is a main initial step in any software development or maintenance related IS offshoring arrangement. This paper examines evaluation criteria and their importance for selecting application or project candidates for offshoring. Based on a literature analysis and interviews with 47 experts from 36 different German companies describing 64 case examples, we find that in contrast to the literature, “size”, “codification”, and “language” are perceived as important selection criteria by experts. Case examples additionally show that “business specificity” seems to be a main reason for application or project failures, that “business criticality” appears to be less important than suggested by the literature, and that adequate “size” might be a necessary prerequisite, but seems not to be a sufficient criterion for an application’s or project’s suitability for offshoring. These differences in comparison to findings from the literature may be explained by cultural and language differences. KW - Offshoring KW - Nearshoring KW - Outsourcing KW - What to offshore KW - Selection criteria KW - Information systems KW - Betriebliches Informationssystem KW - Offshoring KW - Projekt KW - Evaluation Y1 - 2008 UR - http://jitm.ubalt.edu/XIX-4/article2.pdf VL - 19 IS - 4 SP - 16 EP - 34 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Wulf, Frederik A1 - Strahringer, Susanne A1 - Westner, Markus T1 - Information security risks, benefits, and mitigation measures in cloud sourcing T2 - Proceedings of the IEEE 21th Conference on Business Informatics (CBI): 2019, Moscow, Russia N2 - This paper develops a categorization of cloud security risks, elaborates how they impact information security, and discusses potential security benefits from cloud sourcing. This review integrates the literature on information systems and computer science to summarize managerial and technological mitigation measures that enhance cloud security. The analysis uncovers gaps regarding the empirical investigation of security considerations in the corporate decision-making process. Specifically, the micro level of how security comes into play in the decision-making process and whether mitigation measures proposed by scholars are practically feasible requires further investigation. Furthermore, the macro level, how stakeholders perceive cloud sourcing, is not yet well understood. KW - Cloud Computing KW - Security KW - Risks KW - Mitigation KW - Cloud Computing KW - Datensicherheit Y1 - 2019 UR - 10.1109/CBI.2019.00036 SP - 258 EP - 267 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Westner, Markus A1 - Fuhrmann, Thomas A1 - Waas, Thomas A1 - Skelton, David T1 - Internationalization of a Computer Science Faculty BT - Lessons learned from a regional german technical university of applied sciences T2 - 9th Annual International Conference on Computer Science Education: Innovation and Technology (CSEIT 2018), 2018, Singapore N2 - The paper at hand describes how a regional university of applied sciences tried to internationalize its learning and teaching environment. It describes the challenges encountered, the managerial approach taken, illustrates the implemented initiatives, and how effective they turned out. The results might be relevant to faculty staff in managerial positions at regional universities all over the world that face the challenge to internationalize their teaching and learning environment for the benefit of their domestic students. KW - Internationalization KW - Faculty development KW - Change management KW - PDCA KW - Internationalisierung KW - Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften KW - Lernumwelt Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.5176/2251-2195_CSEIT18.118 SP - 33 EP - 38 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Skelton, David A1 - Westner, Markus ED - Zegwaard, Karsten E. ED - Ford, Marty T1 - International internships BT - An investigation of international cooperative student experiences by partner institutions T2 - Refereed Proceedings of the 3rd International Research Symposium on Cooperative and Work-Integrated Education, Stuttgart, Germany : 3rd - 27th of June, 2018, Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany N2 - Students are increasingly considering expanding their cooperative experiences into the global environment. This paper investigates the experiences of students undertaking their internship capstone in other countries under the supervision of a partner institute and a participating industry sponsor. These experiences of German students interning in New Zealand (NZ), and NZ students interning in Germany offer an insight into the organisation required by the partner institutions and the comparative cultural and technical differences that these students have encountered. The international agreement between Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule (OTH) Regensburg, Germany, and the Eastern Institute of Technology (EIT), NZ, has already built a mutual framework of visiting lecturers teaching in each other's institutes, and a programme of hosting exchange students in each other's institutes. A natural progression of this partnership has now moved into the active recruitment and brokering of international internship opportunities for their respective final year Business and Information Technology (IT) students. The benefits are evident personally to the students, which are discussed in this paper, but there are also clear benefits for EIT and OTH in terms of marketing opportunities for prospective students and enriching the learning environments. This paper explores the challenges faced by the Schools of Business and Computing at EIT as it pioneers the first two years of establishing internship options for final year German exchange students within NZ, and matching final year EIT degree students to industry sponsors within Bavaria, a federal state of Germany. A qualitative approach was taken for this study with data acquired from internship students involved, the key organising lecturers from each institute, and industry sponsors from each country. A number of student, staff and industry representative interviews were conducted along with a cultural appraisal of relevant literature in the global education field. A further overview of the macro benefits for the partner institutes in terms of marketing, and programme enrichment is also part of the conclusion. The paper may be useful as a template for other institutes on developing international internship opportunities through global partners. KW - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Studium KW - Informatikstudium KW - Praktikum KW - Neuseeland KW - Deutschland Y1 - 2018 UR - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/336055832_Refereed_Proceedings_of_the_3rd_International_Research_Symposium_on_Cooperative_and_Work-Integrated_Education_Stuttgart_Germany SN - 978-0-473-46291-8 SP - 193 EP - 198 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Bary, Benedikt von A1 - Westner, Markus A1 - Strahringer, Susanne T1 - Do researchers investigate what practitioners deem relevant? BT - Gaps between research and practice in the field of information systems backsourcing T2 - Proceedings of the 20th IEEE International Conference on Business Informatics (IEEE CBI 2018): Vienna, Austria, 11-14 July N2 - There is a common understanding amongst academics that information systems (IS) research sometimes has limited relevance for practitioners. This can be explained by the fact that research lags behind the fast moving IS environment, has limited practical applicability and is hard to access. We have focused on the research area of IS backsourcing, and analyzed practitioner literature to increase our understanding of topics of interest for practitioners, to determine a potential gap between academic and practitioner literature, and to identify future research directions in this field. We observed that most publications are either news or background articles, focusing on describing backsourcing cases. Additionally, we identified four recurring themes, namely reasons for backsourcing, presentation of survey results, discussion of industry trends, and backsourcing success stories. The main reasons identified to trigger backsourcing decisions are cost savings, quality improvements, and increasing control and flexibility. By comparing our findings with academic literature on IS backsourcing, we conclude that generally both literature types cover similar topics. However, researchers have a more formulative or interpretive focus than the often descriptive practitioner literature. Academic literature also examines a broader range of topics, while practitioner literature has a narrower focus. Additionally, we observe one difference regarding applied terminology: while researchers employ the term backsourcing, practitioners mostly use back in-house or insourcing. Our paper contributes to facilitating the exchange between academics and practitioners, presents topics to consider when aiming to increase practical relevance and provides researchers with concrete directions for future research within the field of IS backsourcing. KW - Betriebliches Informationssystem KW - Backsourcing KW - Anwendung KW - Literaturbericht KW - Information systems KW - Backsourcing KW - Practical applicability Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1109/CBI.2018.00014 SP - 40 EP - 49 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Könning, Michael A1 - Westner, Markus A1 - Strahringer, Susanne T1 - Multisourcing on the Rise: Results from an Analysis of more than 1,000 IT Outsourcing Deals in the ASG Region T2 - Tagungsband Multikonferenz Wirtschaftsinformatik 2018 (MKWI 2018): data driven X - turning data into value, Leuphana Unversität Lüneburg, 6.-9. März 2018 N2 - Information technology outsourcing (ITO) has long been recognized for its numerous potential advantages such as lowering costs, accessing external skills, and improving efficiency, flexibility, and quality. However, it also exposes client companies to various risks, including vendor lock-in, poor agility, or insufficient vendor expertisein individual domains, especially inincreasingly dynamic market environments. Consequently, companies increasingly implement multisourcing by composing a “best of breed” set of vendors for their various IT services. In this paper,we use a dataset of 1,016 ITO deals closed with Austrian, Swiss, and German client companies between 2006 and 2017 to analyze the development of the ITO market in general and multisourcing in particular. Our results show decreasing services run rates, shorter contract lengths, an increasing number of concurrent service providers per client,and a distribution of the total number of contracts to a larger set of vendors, all pointing towards an increasing popularity of multisourcing. KW - Multisourcing KW - IT-Outsourcing KW - Sourcing strategy KW - Outsourcing KW - Strategie Y1 - 2018 UR - http://mkwi2018.leuphana.de/programm/tagungsband/ IS - Band V SP - 1813 EP - 1824 PB - Leuphana, Universität Lüneburg CY - Lüneburg ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Kobus, Jörn A1 - Westner, Markus T1 - Ranking-type delphi studies in IS research BT - step-by-step guide and analytical extension T2 - Proceedings of the 9th IADIS International Conference Information Systems, Vilamoura, Portugal, 9-11 April N2 - Ranking-type Delphi is a frequently used method in IS research. However, besides several studies investigating a rigorous application of ranking-type Delphi as a research method, a comprehensive and precise step-by-step guide on how to conduct a rigorous ranking-type Delphi study in IS research is currently missing. In addition, a common critic of Delphi studies in general is that it is unclear if there is indeed authentic consensus of the panelists, or if panelists only agree because of other reasons (e.g. acquiescence bias or tiredness to disagreement after several rounds). This also applies to ranking-type Delphi studies. Therefore, this study aims to (1) Provide a rigorous step-by-step guide to conduct ranking-type Delphi studies through synthesizing results of existing research and (2) Offer an analytical extension to the ranking-type Delphi method by introducing Best/Worst Scaling, which originated in Marketing and Consumer Behavior research. A guiding example is introduced to increase comprehensibility of the proposals. Future research needs to validate the step-by-step guide in an empirical setting as well as test the suitability of Best/Worst Scaling within described research contexts. KW - Delphi KW - Best/Worst Scaling KW - Maximum-Difference-Scaling KW - MaxDiff KW - Delphi-Technik Y1 - 2016 UR - http://www.iadisportal.org/digital-library/ranking-type-delphi-studies-in-is-research-step-by-step-guide-and-analytical-extension SP - 28 EP - 38 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Westner, Markus A1 - Skelton, David A1 - Tinat, Johannes T1 - Enhancing students’ IS offshoring capabilities BT - an international blended teaching concept T2 - Proceedings of the 7th Annual Conference of Computing and Information Technology Research and Education New Zealand (CITRENZ 2016), Wellington, New Zealand, July 11-13 N2 - An appreciation of globalisation issues by information systems (IS) graduates is a growing requirement of organisations with global reach. This paper discusses the planning of a joint course to be delivered online and face to face by two lecturers representing two tertiary institutes in Germany and New Zealand respectively. The IS offshoring content of the course is relatively unique and aspects of globalisation will be demonstrated through the dual country delivery of the course. The two lecturers involved have spent time lecturing and studying in their global partner’s country and tertiary institutes and so this joint delivery method is likely to also strengthen cultural ties between the two participating institutions including the students involved. Further research goals and issues are discussed for post-delivery of this dual country blended course. This paper provides a basis for this concept to be evaluated in further research. KW - Globalisation KW - Offshoring KW - Joint delivery KW - Blended global courses KW - International student KW - Informatikstudium KW - Integriertes Lernen KW - Internationale Kooperation KW - Deutschland KW - Neuseeland Y1 - 2016 UR - https://www.citrenz.ac.nz/conferences/2016/pdf/2016CITRENZ_1_Westner_IntBlended_15-2.pdf ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Kobus, Jörn A1 - Westner, Markus A1 - Strahringer, Susanne T1 - Lean Management of IT Organizations BT - a Perspective of IT Slack Theory T2 - Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2016), Dublin, N2 - Lean Management has been successfully implemented in production organizations since several decades. The study at hand investigates the implementation of Lean Management to IT organizations (Lean IT). The study offers three contributions: First, it explains on a conceptual level how Lean Management can be transferred from production to IT organizations (philosophy, principles, tools). Second, it provides a theoretical perspective on why Lean IT can be beneficial for IT organizations (IT Slack theory). Third, it provides insights to the stated research questions (three benefits and three propositions) from an initial case study of an internal IT service provider for a large international insurance company (> US$25 Billion revenue; >20,000 employees; active in >120 countries) and lays out the research methodology and potential focus areas for further studies. KW - Lean Management KW - Lean IT KW - IT Slack theory KW - Implementation KW - Application development and maintenance KW - Lean Management KW - Informationstechnik Y1 - 2016 UR - https://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2016/ManagingIS/Presentations/1/ SP - 1 EP - 12 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Kopper, Andreas A1 - Westner, Markus T1 - Towards a Taxonomy for Shadow IT T2 - Proceedings of the 22nd Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2016), San Diego, August 11-14 N2 - In a comprehensive literature review, we identified 21 different terms used for Shadow IT related concepts. This variety makes it difficult to identify related research and build upon it. To address this ambiguity, we reduce the different terms to six distinct concepts by developing a taxonomy and examining their relation¬ships. We do so by using a rigorous iterative methodology to identify common characteristics and to classify terms along them. By clustering the results, we derive and visualize the taxonomy. The identified concepts are Feral Practices, Workarounds, Shadow IT, Shadow Systems, Un-enacted Projects, and Shadow Sourcing. We elaborate on the concepts along their characteristics and clearly define and delimit them. As a result, we create a guide for their usage, increase search- and comparability, and unify existing knowledge. KW - Shadow IT KW - Shadow systems KW - Shadow sourcing KW - Feral practices KW - Workarounds KW - Taxonomy KW - Terminology KW - Informationstechnik KW - Datensicherung KW - Taxonomie KW - Literaturbericht Y1 - 2016 UR - https://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2016/EndUser/Presentations/3/ SP - 1 EP - 10 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Kopper, Andreas A1 - Westner, Markus T1 - Deriving a Framework for Causes, Consequences, and Governance of Shadow IT from Literature T2 - Proceedings zur Multikonferenz Wirtschaftsinformatik 2016 (MKWI 2016), Technische Universität Ilmenau, Thüringen, 09.-11. März 2016 N2 - Shadow IT is a widespread phenomenon which includes systems, services, and processes that are not part of the "official" corporate IT. The topic is still an emerging research area and slowly gaining traction in recent years but a state of the art analysis is missing to date. We therefore conduct a structured literature review to derive a framework for causes, consequences, and governance of Shadow IT. We identify motivators, enablers, and missing barriers as causes for Shadow IT, both positive and negative consequences on an organizational and a technical level and governance approaches which focus on clearance of existing or prevention of future Shadow IT. Our review reveals that constructivist, qualitative design using a case study approach dominates existing research. There are no dominant theories yet to explain Shadow IT. We also highlight possibilities for future research to focus on the less explored governance aspect. KW - Schatten-IT KW - IT-Governance KW - Informationsmanagement KW - Corporate Governance KW - Literaturbericht Y1 - 2016 SP - 1687 EP - 1698 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Sonnleitner, Daniel A1 - Westner, Markus T1 - Quo vadis IT infrastructure BT - decision support for cloud computing adoption from a business perspective T2 - Proceedings of the 22nd UKAIS Conference : Ubiquitous Information Systems: Surviving and thriving in a connected society, 2017 Oxford, April 3rd-5th 2017 N2 - Many IT organizations are confronted with the question whether to modernize their IT infrastructure. While most data centers run on a virtualized environment, Cloud Computing technology emerges with new characteristics on fast provision of standardized resources in a scalable IT infrastructure. Public cloud vendors offer IT services on demand, so that IT organizations do not have to operate their own hardware. Moreover, private cloud architectures gain influence, claiming to provide flexible and elastic IT infrastructure. The paper at hand guides the strategic decision for adoption of Cloud Computing on IT infrastructure. Therefore, we first introduce a taxonomy for IT infrastructure encompassing a technological and a sourcing perspective. Second, we evaluate selective areas of the taxonomy adopting the SWOT framework to understand both opportunities and challenges of Cloud Computing for IT infrastructure from a business perspective. KW - Cloud Computing KW - Cloud Adoption KW - Cloud Migration KW - SWOT KW - Infrastructure as a Service KW - IT Infrastructure KW - Cloud Computing KW - IT-Abteilung KW - Outsourcing KW - Service-Rechenzentrum Y1 - 2017 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Strahringer, Susanne A1 - Westner, Markus A1 - Bary, Benedikt von T1 - IT-Backsourcing JF - Das Wirtschaftsstudium : wisu N2 - The importance of information systems (IS) for companies has grown rapidly over the recent years. For example, companies from various industries are focusing their efforts to digitize business models, to adopt agile forms of collaboration, and to leverage automation of routine tasks. This forces companies to review their IS sourcing strategies and to potentially consider alternatives for current outsourcing contracts. One potential option could be to backsource IS services currently performed by external vendors. Based on empirical observations, previous academics defined it as the repatriation of all assets, activities, and skills needed to perform IS services back in-house, which had been outsourced previously to one or multiple vendors. The distinctive characteristic of backsourcing is the change in ownership back to the mother organization. This distinguishes the term backsourcing from similar terms, e.g., backshoring, reshoring, or relocating, which rather focus on the change in location of the service delivery. At the initial sourcing decision, the strategy to outsource an IS service was considered most promising. However, certain developments both inside the company, but also on a broader industry level may lead to a re-evaluation of the situation and thus to an adjustment of the original sourcing strategy. Over the last years, there has been a strong increase in cloud-based services and a shift towards the deployment of standardized, almost “industrialized” applications as services. Before, large companies leveraged their size in realizing economies of scale within their sourcing volumes. The raise of cloud computing as well as standardization of service delivery decreased those benefits and led towards a decline in large outsourcing contracts across a variety of services and a growth of multi-sourcing of individual IS services from the respective “best-in-breed” vendors for shorter time periods. Besides sourcing the best vendor for each service, companies that implement multi-sourcing strategies additionally aim for cost benefits due to an increased competition between vendors, and an increase in agility and adaptability. At the same time, a move towards multi-sourcing strategies with shorter contract durations leads to an increase in so-called “second generation sourcing decisions”, namely whether to continue outsourcing a respective service or to bring the service back in-house. Given the developments within the IS environment, this research projects aims at understanding why IS services are backsourced and which factors influence a company’s decision to backsource an IS service. KW - Betriebliches Informationssystem KW - Insourcing KW - IT-Backsourcing KW - Information systems KW - Outsourcing KW - Rückverlagerung KW - Auslagerung Y1 - 2019 IS - 6 SP - 702 EP - 706 PB - Lange ; Mohr CY - Düsseldorf ; Tübingen ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Westner, Markus T1 - Video-enhanced lectures in high-teaching-load environments with limited resources BT - benefits and challenges for lecturers and students T2 - Proceddings of the 11th International Technology, Education and Development Conference (INTED 2017), Valencia, Spain. 6-8 March N2 - Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have been gaining a lot of attention in the last years. Those courses and their videos are often professionally produced and incorporate a significant investment of time and financial resources. In many cases such courses are “flagship” productions of the associated school or university and produced with budgets lecturers in other institutions do not have available. This makes the use of videos in a regular teaching environment challenging. In addition, lecturers often act in high-teaching-load environments further tightening their capacity constraints. This raises the question whether and how lecturers can benefit from videos in their lectures for increased teaching effectiveness while not sacrificing teaching efficiency. The paper at hand attempts to address this question by providing a critical perspective on the use of videos in a high-teaching-load environment characterized by little financial and staff resource availability. The paper thereby builds upon the three years’ experience of its author in using videos to enhance lectures in German tertiary education institutions in a multi-language, i.e., English and German, teaching environment. The presented findings are both relevant for teaching practice and research: lecturers may benefit from the presented ideas and experiences and may adopt them for their teaching. Researchers may find starting points for new research opportunities on the effectiveness and efficiency of video-enhanced lecturing and learning. The paper is organized as follows. Section 2 describes the context of the study from an institutional and technological perspective. Section 3 outlines the methodology applied and 4 how data was collected. Results from data analysis are presented in section 5. The paper concludes with a reflective summary and outlook in section 6. KW - Hochschulbildung KW - Massive Open Online Course KW - Videos KW - Screencasts Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.21125/inted.2017.0168 SP - 197 EP - 207 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Westner, Markus A1 - Kennedy, F. A1 - Furlong, A. T1 - Global student collaboration through international blended learning T2 - Proceedings of the 10th Annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation (ICERI2017), Seville, Spain. 16-18 November N2 - In today’s business, collaboration in globally distributed teams becomes more and more common. This is particularly the case in professional services and information systems (IS) where the immaterial nature of services makes globally distributed service creation easily possible. Consequently, companies expect that graduates have intercultural skills and that they are able to work in globally distributed teams, especially in professional services like consulting or in IS. However, management or IS curriculums often lack courses that teach those respective skills. The suggested course attempts to fill this gap through an innovative course design and delivery. The course intends to replicate a professional project environment in which the students are supposed to deliver a project as a joint international team. In the beginning of the course, students learn key aspects of project management, intercultural management, distributed collaboration, and the professional services industry in a self-paced manner through video lectures. Then they form teams, plan their project, and subsequently execute their project plan jointly. Instructors from the participating institutions supervise and coach the students. The project execution is supposed to resemble a business project with a meeting schedule, agreed deliverables, regular steering committees in which the instructors play the role of the clients. This paper outlines the concept of this international blended-teaching course. It suggests potential learning objectives, a course description, a teaching syllabus, and an assessment framework. KW - Blended learning KW - Global collaboration KW - Distributed teams KW - Integriertes Lernen KW - Internationale Kooperation KW - Virtuelles Team Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.21125/iceri.2017.2030 SP - 7625 EP - 7631 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Kobus, Jörn A1 - Westner, Markus T1 - Lean Management of IT Organizations BT - A Literature Review T2 - Proceedings of the 19th Pacific Asia Conference in Information Systems (PACIS 2015), Singapore, Jul 5-9 N2 - Lean Management has been successfully applied by companies around the world, mainly in production/manufacturing functions. Recently, the interest to investigate a wider application of Lean Management especially in service functions increased. However, it is not clear how Lean Management can be applied to IT organizations. Therefore, this study aims to provide an overview on common characteristics and future research directions. A literature review on existing scholarly research from January 2004 to June 2014 is conducted. Using a database-driven search approach, a total of 1,206 research contributions are found of which 49 were identified as relevant. Results indicate a low theory grounding of mostly formulative and interpretative research items. This implies that research on Lean Management of IT organizations is still at its nascent state. Content-wise, five research themes emerge. The majority of research investigates IT organizations in a role to support Lean Management in production/manufacturing functions (determining “what to work on”), therefore more research on how Lean Management can be applied to IT organizations themselves (determining “how to work”) could be beneficial. Future research could also try to build on Change Management theories, as the implementation of Lean Management is of transformational character. KW - Lean Management KW - Lean IT KW - Information technology KW - Information systems KW - Lean knowledge work KW - Lean services KW - Application development KW - Application maintenance KW - Infrastructure services KW - Lean Management KW - Informationstechnik Y1 - 2015 UR - https://aisel.aisnet.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1084&context=pacis2015 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Kobus, Jörn A1 - Westner, Markus T1 - Lean Management of IT Organizations BT - Implementation Success Factors and Theoretical Foundation T2 - Proceedings of the 21th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2015), Puerto Rico, August 13-15 N2 - Lean Management has been successfully applied in production/manufacturing functions since more than four decades. Recently, the interest to investigate Lean Management also in service functions increased. Therefore, this study aims to (1) Consolidate critical success factors (CSFs) for the implementation of Lean Management of IT organizations; and (2) Describe a theoretical foundation for these CSFs. With respect to (1) a database-driven search was conducted. CSFs then were extracted and categorized. In total 13 CSF groups were assigned to three dimensions: Mindset and behavior; Organization and skills; and Process facilitation and performance management. To understand underlying mechanisms better, and with respect to (2) we related existing (IS) theory to identified groups of CSFs. Especially, five theoretical concepts are discussed: Absorptive capacity, Agency theory, Cognitive dissonance, Dynamic capabilities, and System dynamics. Future research needs to validate the results of (1) and (2) empirically in IT functions. KW - Lean Management KW - Lean IT KW - Information technology KW - Information systems KW - critical success factors KW - Lean knowledge work KW - Lean services KW - Application development KW - Application maintenance KW - Infrastructure services KW - Lean Management KW - Informationstechnik KW - Erfolgsfaktor Y1 - 2015 UR - https://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2015/StrategicUse/GeneralPresentations/3/ SP - 1 EP - 17 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Englberger, Julian A1 - Herrmann, Frank A1 - Claus, Thorsten T1 - Simulation of robust Master Production Scheduling in an industrially relevant planning environment T2 - Proceedings of the 27th EUROPEAN Conference on Modeling and Simulationn, May 27th - 30th, 2013, Ålesund, Norway N2 - This paper presents a simulation analysis on the effects of robust master production scheduling. Up to now, relatively highly aggregated planning models for robust master production scheduling were regarded and the realizability of the planning results was not considered. This paper analyses a more detailed model for master production scheduling than in previous works. The evaluation of the planning results is made by providing the planning results to the subsequent planning levels in a hierarchical production planning system and realizing them in a realistic production system. The primary objective of the production system is to minimise tardiness of customer order deliveries. The secondary objective is to minimise inventory of end products. It is shown that robust master production scheduling in such a planning system leads to significant reductions of tardiness of customer order shipment. Compared to an equivalent deterministic approach for master production scheduling, the mean customer order backlog is reduced more than the mean inventory levels are increased. KW - Hierarchische Produktionsplanung KW - Auftragsabwicklung KW - Optimierung KW - robust optimisation KW - production planning KW - simulation Y1 - 2013 U6 - https://doi.org/10.7148/2013-0794 SP - 794 EP - 800 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Herrmann, Frank T1 - Ressourcenbelegungsplanung für den Realbetrieb einer teilautomatisierten Produktionslinie JF - wt Werkstattstechnik online N2 - Für die Fertigung von Spezialprodukten in vielen Varianten, für ein kleines Kundensegment und in kleinen Stückzahlen, verwenden mittelständische Unternehmen oft teilautomatisierte Produktionslinien. Sie besitzen häufig ausgeprägte technologische Restriktionen, die viele Auftragsfolgen ausschließen. Aufgrund dessen sind Standardverfahren zur Ressourcenbelegungsplanung wie Prioritätsregeln nicht anwendbar. Möglich ist, die Einhaltung der Restriktionen beim Erzeugen von Auftragsfolgen zu berücksichtigen. KW - Flexible Fertigung KW - Kapazitätsbelegungsplanung KW - Planung KW - ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) KW - Produktionsmanagement Y1 - 2011 UR - https://www.werkstattstechnik.de/wt/article.php?data[article_id]=61332 IS - 6 SP - 441 EP - 445 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Herrmann, Frank T1 - Adaptive exponentielle Glättung 1. Ordnung JF - Industrie Management N2 - Bedarfe von Kunden nach Produkten und von der Produktion nach Teilen werden in Unternehmen sehr häutig prognostiziert und ihre Ergebnisse werden in der operativen Produktionsplanung und -Steuerung intensiv genutzt. Bei regelmäßigen und konstanten Bedarfsverläufen wird bevorzugt die exponentielle Glättung 1. Ordnung eingesetzt. Zur Sicherung einer gleichbleibenden Prognosequalität ist sein Glättungsparameter im Zeitablauf anzupassen. Eine Automatisierung wird vorgeschlagen und analysiert. KW - Zeitreihenanalyse KW - Exponentielle Glättung Y1 - 2012 VL - 28 IS - 2 SP - 63 EP - 65 PB - Gito Verlag CY - Bremen ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Englberger, Julian A1 - Herrmann, Frank A1 - Claus, Thorsten T1 - Independent Requirements Consumption in Master Production Scheduling in an Uncapacitated Environment T2 - Informatics, Microsystems, Information Systems. Proceedings. 2012 KW - Produktionsplanung KW - Kundenorientierung Y1 - 2012 SN - 9785733909301 VL - Vol. 1(1) ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Lange, Frederick A1 - Herrmann, Frank T1 - Verbesserung der operativen Produktionsplanung durch Belastungsinformationen T2 - Tagungsband der 7. Wismarer Wirtschaftsinformatik-Tage, Wismar, 2012 KW - Produktionsplanung KW - Operative Planung KW - Belastungsorientierte Fertigungssteuerung Y1 - 2012 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Herrmann, Frank T1 - Forecasting in production planning by adaptive exponential smoothing methods T2 - Proceedings of the 25th European Conference on Operational Research (EURO XXV), Vilnius, Lithuania, 8-11 July, 2012 KW - Produktionsplanung KW - Prognosemodell KW - Exponential smoothing Y1 - 2012 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Herrmann, Frank T1 - Scheduling a flow-shop with simultaneously loaded stations T2 - Proceedings of the International Annual Conference of the German Operations Research Society 2012,(OR 2012), September 4 - 7, Hannover KW - Fließfertigung KW - Flow-shop-Problem KW - Reihenfolgeproblem Y1 - 2012 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Herrmann, Frank T1 - Simulative analysis of storage strategies for pallet warehouses T2 - Informatics, Microsystems, Information System, Proceedings, 2012 KW - Palette KW - Lagerhaltung KW - Strategisches Management KW - Simulation Y1 - 2012 VL - Vol. 1(1) ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Herrmann, Frank T1 - Einstellung von Dispositionsarten in ERP- und PPS-Systemen JF - Productivity Management Y1 - 2011 IS - 3 SP - 45 EP - 47 PB - GITO-Verlag CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Englberger, Julian A1 - Herrmann, Frank A1 - Manitz, Michael T1 - Two-stage stochastic master production scheduling under demand uncertainty in a rolling planning environment JF - International Journal of Production Research N2 - This paper proposes a scenario-based two-stage stochastic programming model with recourse for master production scheduling under demand uncertainty. We integrate the model into a hierarchical production planning and control system that is common in industrial practice. To reduce the problem of the disaggregation of the master production schedule, we use a relatively low aggregation level (compared to other work on stochastic programming for production planning). Consequently, we must consider many more scenarios to model demand uncertainty. Additionally, we modify standard modelling approaches for stochastic programming because they lead to the occurrence of many infeasible problems due to rolling planning horizons and interdependencies between master production scheduling and successive planning levels. To evaluate the performance of the proposed models, we generate a customer order arrival process, execute production planning in a rolling horizon environment and simulate the realisation of the planning results. In our experiments, the tardiness of customer orders can be nearly eliminated by the use of the proposed stochastic programming model at the cost of increasing inventory levels and using additional capacity. KW - Hierarchische Produktionsplanung KW - Fertigungsprogrammplanung KW - Nachfrageverhalten KW - Stochastische Optimierung KW - Master production scheduling KW - Demand uncertainty KW - Two-stage stochastic programming KW - Scenario-based stochastic programming with recourse KW - Hierarchical production planning Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/00207543.2016.1162917 VL - 54 IS - 20 SP - 6192 EP - 6215 PB - Taylor & Francis ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Herrmann, Frank T1 - Automatisierte Durchführung von Bestandsmanagement-Projekten JF - wt Werkstattstechnik online N2 - Ein effizientes und effektives Bestandsmanagement ist wichtig, um die Auswirkungen etwa durch fehlende Produkte gering zu halten und die Lagerhaltungskosten zu minimieren. Die für viele Unternehmen geeigneten Formeln zum Bestandsmanagement und seine produktspezifische Anwendung werden in einem Leitfaden zusammengefasst und anhand eines realen Anwendungsfalls in diesem Fachbeitrag beschrieben. Eine manuelle Durchführung ist besonders aufwendig. Deshalb wird erläutert, welche Schritte des Leitfadens effektiv durch ein entsprechendes Programm durchgeführt werden können. KW - Bestandsmanagement Y1 - 2010 UR - https://www.werkstattstechnik.de/wt/article.php?data[article_id]=57155 IS - 10 SP - 819 EP - 824 CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Herrmann, Frank A1 - Burgmayr, Georg T1 - Verknüpfung von Software zu einem IT-Logistiknetzwerk JF - MaschinenMarkt online N2 - Softwaresysteme sind für den Betrieb moderner Logistik- und Herstellungsbetriebe essenziell. Doch kaum eine auf dem Markt angebotene Lösung kann alle Anforderungen in Lager und Montage lückenlos abdecken. Kleine und mittlere IT-Unternehmen schließen sich zusammen - und damit diese Marktlücke. KW - Logistikunternehmen KW - Software Y1 - 2011 UR - https://www.mm-logistik.vogel.de/verknuepfung-von-software-zu-einem-it-logistiknetzwerk-a-297008/ PB - Vogel Business Media CY - Würzburg ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Herrmann, Frank ED - Fuchs, Gerhard ED - Müller, Christian ED - Ritz, Harald ED - Saint-Mont, Uwe T1 - Evaluierung von Standardsoftware zur Abbildung von Geschäftsprozessen T2 - Herausforderungen an die Wirtschaftsinformatik: Wissensmanagement, E-Business und ereignisgesteuerte Geschäftsprozesse in Echtzeit Y1 - 2007 U6 - https://doi.org/10.15771/978-3-936527-10-0 SP - 52 EP - 69 PB - Verlag News & Media CY - Berlin ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Herrmann, Frank A1 - Stumvoll, Ulrike T1 - Einstellung von Losgrößenheuristiken in ERP- bzw. PPS-Systemen T2 - Proceedings zu den 7. Wismarer Wirtschaftsinformatik-Tagen vom 3.-4. Juni 2010 an der Hochschule Wismar KW - PPS KW - Enterprise-Resource-Planning KW - Losgrößenplanung KW - Heuristik Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Claus, Thorsten A1 - Herrmann, Frank T1 - Simulation als betriebliche Entscheidungshilfe T2 - Ergänzungsband zu den Proceedings zur 14. ASIM Fachtagung "Simulation in Produktion und Logistik", vom 6. bis 8. Oktober 2010 am Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Karlsruhe KW - Produktion KW - Logistik KW - Simulation KW - Entscheidungsprozess Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Herrmann, Frank T1 - Berechnung des Werts von Informationen im Supply Chain Management T2 - Tagungsband zum 100. MNU-Bundeskongress ; Regensburg, 5. bis 9. April 2009 KW - Supply Chain Management KW - Informationsmanagement Y1 - 2009 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wohanka, Christian A1 - Herrmann, Frank T1 - Anbindung von Halbleiter Fertigungsautomaten an die SAP NetWeaver Plattform JF - Industrie-Management KW - Fertigung KW - Automation KW - Halbleiterbauelement KW - SAP NetWeaver Y1 - 2008 IS - 2 SP - 39 EP - 42 PB - Gito Verlag CY - Bremen ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Heindl, Martina A1 - Herrmann, Frank T1 - Verkürzung von Ein- und Auslagerzeiten in Lagerprozessen JF - PPS-Management KW - Lagerhaltung KW - Lagerplanung Y1 - 2007 VL - 12 IS - 4 SP - 47 EP - 50 PB - GITO Verlag CY - Berlin ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Herrmann, Frank T1 - Operative Planung in IT-Systemen für die Produktionsplanung und -steuerung BT - Wirkung, Auswahl und Einstellhinweise von Verfahren und Parametern N2 - Die operative Planung in der Produktionslogistik besteht im Kern aus der Prognose von Bedarfen, dem Management von Lagerbeständen, der Planung des Produktionsprogramms, der Materialbedarfsplanung und der Fertigungssteuerung. Kommerziell verfügbare Enterprise Resource Planning-Systeme oder Produktionsplanungs- und -steuerungssysteme bieten hierfür sehr viele Verfahren mit vielen Einstellungsmöglichkeiten an, die in diesem Buch detailliert erläutert werden. Die ausführlichen Beispiele und Fallstudien erleichtern das Nachvollziehen der Einzelschritte dieser Verfahren. Die Alternativen haben zum Teil signifikante Auswirkungen auf Parameter wie Termineinhaltung, Durchlaufzeit und Kapitalbindung, die das Erreichen der Unternehmensziele maßgeblich beeinflussen. Zur Unterstützung von Anwendern wird die Wirkung dieser Einstellungsmöglichkeiten analysiert und es werden Hinweise bzw. Leitfäden zu ihrer Einstellung gegeben. KW - Enterprise-Resource-Planning KW - Operative Planung KW - PPS Y1 - 2011 SN - 978-3-8348-8172-4 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-8348-8172-4 PB - Vieweg+Teubner ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Vitzthum, Thorsten A1 - Claus, Thorsten A1 - Herrmann, Frank T1 - Can Aggregate Production Planning (APP) be modified to be as good as Master Production Scheduling (MPS) T2 - ACC Journal N2 - In diesem Beitrag wird anhand einer Fallstudie die Bedeutung der Hauptproduktionsprogrammplanung (HPPLAN) für die hierarchische Produktionsplanung herausgearbeitet werden. Dazu wird versucht das Ergebnis der aggregierten Gesamtplanung (AGGRPLAN) durch Veränderung einzelner Paramater so zu verbessern, dass es dem Ergebnis der HPPLAN entspricht. Im Rahmen der Untersuchungen konnten dabei Verbesserungen für einzelne Planungssituationen erzielt werden, eine generelle Lösung konnte jedoch nicht gefunden werden. Insbesondere der Einsatz eines geeigneten Kapazitätsreduktionsfaktors in Verbindung mit der Berücksichtigung der Durchlaufzeit führt zu einer Verbesserung der Lösung. Bei der Planung von mehr als einem Produkt ist allerdings schwierig einen geeigneten Kapazitätsreduktionsfaktor zu finden, da dieser abhängig von der Nachfrage ist. KW - Hierarchische Produktionsplanung KW - Fertigungsprogrammplanung KW - Fallstudie KW - Hierarchical production planning KW - Aggregate production planning (APP) KW - Master production scheduling (MPS) KW - Material requirement planning KW - Resource profiles Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.15240/tul/004/2017-2-012 VL - 23 IS - 2 SP - 155 EP - 162 ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Herrmann, Frank T1 - Logik der Produktionslogistik N2 - Für kosteneffiziente und flexible Produktionsprozesse wurden und werden zunehmend ausgefeilte Verfahren eingesetzt. Sie entstammen dem Operations Research, der, deswegen, nach wie vor eine hohe Produktivität aufweist. Diese Verfahren berufen sich auf grundlegende Resultate der Produktionslogistik, die sich beweisen lassen und daher zeitlos gültig sind. Ihre Kenntnis ist für das Verständnis und die Einsatzmöglichkeiten, insbesondere die Grenzen, dieser Verfahren erforderlich. Es erlaubt auch die grundlegenden Stärken und Schwächen von manchen aktuell diskutierten Ansätzen zu analysieren. Die Konzepte und Verfahren werden im Detail begründet bzw. hergeleitet; dies schließt die Beweise ein, die überwiegend aus dem Internet heruntergeladen werden können. Zum schrittweisen Nachvollziehen der Konzepte und der Einzelschritte der Verfahren dienen die ausführlich erläuterten Beispiele. Das Buch richtet sich an Studierende der Wirtschaftswissenschaften, der Wirtschaftsinformatik und dem Operations Research sowie an Experten und Wissenschaftler, die sich für die Theorie zur Produktionslogistik interessieren. Stärken und Schwächen von aktuell diskutierten Ansätzen aufdecken. KW - Fertigungslogistik Y1 - 2009 SN - 978-3-486-84856-4 PB - Oldenbourg ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Trost, Marco A1 - Teich, Enrico A1 - Claus, Thorsten A1 - Herrmann, Frank T1 - Master Production Scheduling and the relevance of included social criteria T2 - ACC Journal N2 - Folgender Beitrag untersucht die Notwendigkeit einer Berücksichtigung von Mitarbeiterauslastungen und davon abhängiger Bearbeitungszeiten in der Hauptproduktionsprogrammplanung. Zudem wird aufgezeigt, dass dieses Themengebiet aktuell eine Forschungslücke darstellt. Aus diesem Grund wird ein selbst entwickeltes lineares Optimierungsmodell für die Hauptproduktionsprogrammplanung vorgestellt, welches soziale Kriterien und eine geeignete Fallstudie enthält. Die Ergebnisse verdeutlichen, dass erhebliche Abweichungen durch eine Ignoranz von Mitarbeiterauslastungen und davon abhängiger Bearbeitungszeiten entstehen. Deshalb ist eine Integration zu empfehlen. Allerdings wird auch deutlich, dass weitere Forschungen notwendig sind, speziell für die Bestimmung geeigneter Erschöpfungsfunktionen, so wie beispielsweise Funktionen für Lerneffekte existieren. KW - Fertigungsprogrammplanung KW - Personaleinsatz KW - Lineare Optimierung KW - Sustainability KW - Production planning and control KW - Master production scheduling KW - Linear optimization KW - Human fatigue Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.15240/tul/004/2017-2-011 VL - 23 IS - 3 SP - 146 EP - 154 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Trost, Marco A1 - Claus, Thorsten A1 - Herrmann, Frank T1 - Adapted Master Production Scheduling: Potential for Improving Human Working Conditions T2 - Proceedings of the 33th European Conference on Modelling and Simulation 2019 (ECMS), Caserta, Italy N2 - This article illustrates the problem of deficient working conditions like high work intensity and underlines the possibilities of production planning and control to improve them. However, an included literature search presents that previous approaches have predominantly considered social aspects within a short planning horizon and that there is a need for a long-term consideration. To address this research gap a linear optimization model for Master Production Scheduling is presented, which has been extended by basic aspects of personnel requirements planning and a control of personnel work intensity. The results show that improvements in working conditions can be achieved through adapted production planning without an automatically increase in costs. However , challenges in quantifying the corresponding social correlations are identified as well. KW - Produktionsplanung KW - Personalbedarfsplanung KW - Lineare Optimierung KW - Master Production Scheduling KW - Sustainability KW - Work Intensity KW - Workload Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.7148/2019 VL - 33,1 SP - 310 EP - 316 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Vitzthum, Thorsten A1 - Claus, Thorsten A1 - Herrmann, Frank T1 - Einfluss von Mitarbeiterqualifikationszeiten im Rahmen nachhaltiger Produktionsplanung T2 - Simulation in Produktion und Logistik 2017, Kassel, 20.-22. September N2 - This research paper evaluates the potential of reducing shortages and costs that are created by training measures as an example for measurement of extended qualification of key employees in sustainable production planning. Capacity planning with standard methods in Enterprise Resource Planning Systems, namely priority rules, are used. Almost always, the optimal solution is not found, although there is one. In addition, unnecessarily high stocks are built up. In real business situations, this causes lost profits. T2 - Influence of Employee Qualification Times in the Context of Sustainable Production Planning KW - Enterprise-Resource-Planning KW - Produktionsplanung KW - Betriebliche Fortbildung Y1 - 2017 UR - http://www.asim-fachtagung-spl.de/asim2017/papers/Proof_111_Vitzthum.pdf SP - 315 EP - 324 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Forstner, Robert A1 - Stauber, Stephan A1 - Herrmann, Frank T1 - Simulationsstudie zur sequentiellen Behälterversorgung in der automatischen Intralogistik T2 - Simulation in Produktion und Logistik 2017, September 20 - 22, 2017, Kassel, Germany N2 - After explaining the necessity of sequential sorting processes within branched conveyor systems and introducing basic sequential controlling principles, this paper analyses with a simulation study different ways of implementing sequential supply processes for small load carriers in an abstracted automated intralogistics system. Simulation results show that a layout with sequencing systems with explicit buffer places can ensure much higher sequential throughput performances than a layout with a loop for sequencing or a layout which implements sequencing processes just with the control of carrier sources. Because of sequential control dependencies in the layout with buffer places, further experiments for sequential supply processes with different layouts forms have to be assessed. KW - Förderanlage KW - Sortieranlage KW - Materialflusssteuerung KW - Transportbehälter KW - Simulation Y1 - 2017 UR - http://www.asim-fachtagung-spl.de/asim2017/papers/Proof_124_Forstner.pdf SP - 489 EP - 498 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Janssen, Larissa A1 - Diabat, Ali A1 - Sauer, Jürgen A1 - Herrmann, Frank T1 - A stochastic micro-periodic age-based inventory replenishment policy for perishable goods JF - Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation N2 - In this paper, we propose a micro-periodic inventory replenishment policy for quickly perishable goods with fixed and known lifetime of items, deterministic lead time, fixed given order cycle, mixed issuing policies (FIFO and LIFO), age-based stock, imperfect items and target customer service level under random demand. The inventory policy is based on time of day (morning, midday, afternoon or evening). The results of our simulation study show that the proposed micro-periodic inventory policy leads to waste reduction of 66% as well as a partial decrease in cost compared to inventory policy with planning on a daily basis. KW - Frischware KW - Bestandsmanagement KW - Bestellmengenplanung KW - Stochastisches Modell KW - Inventory KW - Micro-periodic KW - Perishable goods KW - Stochastic demand KW - Waste reduction KW - Simulation study KW - Simulation Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tre.2018.08.009 VL - 118 IS - October SP - 445 EP - 465 PB - Elsevier ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Trost, Marco A1 - Teich, Enrico A1 - Claus, Thorsten A1 - Herrmann, Frank T1 - Ein lineares Optimierungsmodell zur Hauptproduktionsprogrammplanung mit Berücksichtigung sozialer Größen JF - uwf UmweltWirtschaftsForum N2 - Aufgrund weniger existenter sozialorientierter Forschungen im Rahmen der Produktionsplanung und -steuerung stellt dieser Beitrag ein lineares Optimierungsmodell für die Hauptproduktionsprogrammplanung vor, welches soziale Kriterien berücksichtigt. Erste Ergebnisse deuten an, dass geringe Kosten nicht durch eine maximierte Mitarbeiterauslastung entstehen sondern durch geringe Kapazitätsschwankungen. KW - Sustainability KW - Social dimension KW - Production planning and control KW - Master production scheduling KW - Linear optimisation KW - Hierarchische Produktionsplanung KW - Fertigungsprogrammplanung KW - Personaleinsatz KW - Lineare Optimierung Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s00550-017-0454-7 VL - 25 SP - 71 EP - 80 ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Claus, Thorsten A1 - Herrmann, Frank A1 - Teich, Enrico T1 - Kostensimulation BT - Grundlagen, Forschungsansätze, Anwendungsbeispiele KW - Kostenanalyse KW - Simulation Y1 - 2019 SN - 978-3-658-25167-3 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-25168-0 PB - Springer Gabler CY - Wiesbaden ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Trost, Marco A1 - Claus, Thorsten A1 - Teich, Enrico A1 - Selmair, Maximilian A1 - Herrmann, Frank T1 - Social and Ecological Capabilities for a sustainable Hierarchical Production Planning T2 - Proceedings of the 30th EUROPEAN Conference on Modeling and Simulation (ECMS 2016), May 31st - June 3rd, 2016, Regensburg, Germany N2 - Production planning and production control mainly focus on optimising the entire production system of a company. On the basis of hierarchical planning as a suitable method for solving this task, this paper shows - besides the economic dimension taken into account so far - that there are also social and ecological effects which will have to be considered in the process of planning. For this purpose, we would like to indicate here which social and ecological parameters can be or have already been taken into account for master production scheduling, for lot sizing and resource scheduling. As a result, an overview has been created which presents the existing concepts of sustainable production planning and production control as well as the existing deficits regarding the sustainability perspective. KW - Hierarchische Produktionsplanung KW - Soziale Verantwortung KW - Ökologie KW - production planning KW - hierarchical planning KW - social variables KW - ecological variables KW - sustainable hierarchical production planning Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.7148/2016-0432 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Janssen, Larissa A1 - Herrmann, Frank A1 - Claus, Thorsten T1 - Beitrag zur Abfallreduktion mittels mathematischer Optimierung und simulationsbasierter Validierung BT - A contribution to the waste reduction by mathematical optimisation and simulation-based validation T2 - Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Simulation in Production and Logistics, September 23 - 25, 2015, Dortmund, Germany N2 - Perishable goods with a shelf life of 3-5 days require frequent inventory controls in the food retail trade. Maintaining a high service level for these products in stores is difficult due to demand uncertainty. A high service level often leads to a lot of stock in stores. In case it is not sold, it is waste. As an approach towards waste volume reduction, the economic order quantity (EOQ) problem is optimised in combination with the delivery frequency problem on the basis of the microperiods, i.e. morning, midday, afternoon, and evening. The presented model is designed for multiple stores with one regional warehouse. The simulation model measures the waste volume in stores. Experiments show that the combined optimisation of both problems leads to a reduction of total costs and waste volume. KW - Bestandsmanagement KW - Bestellmengenplanung KW - Optimierung KW - Frischware Y1 - 2015 UR - http://www.asim-fachtagung-spl.de/asim2015/papers/Proof_127_Janssen-V2.pdf ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Selmair, Maximilian A1 - Herrmann, Frank A1 - Claus, Thorsten A1 - Teich, Enrico T1 - Potential of Reducing the Total Energy Consumption by Scheduling a Jobshop Production System T2 - Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Simulation in Production and Logistics, September 23 - 25, 2015, Dortmund, Germany N2 - This research paper has evaluated the potential of reducing energy consumption by scheduling jobshop production systems with machines using standby modes in free times. The initial introduction of the planning issue is followed by a description of the approach to assess the available potential. Subsequently, the research procedure by means of simulation, a detailed discussion of the results and a perspective on future research is given. Moreover, the notion that scheduling influences the energy consumption in jobshop production systems is supported. The presented simulation research also documents that there is no direct correlation between energy consumption and total lead time, although this was presumed usually. Finally, this paper provides a forecast for a possible optimisation model as well as an exemplary model with an energy-optimised schedule plan. KW - Produktionsplanung KW - Reihenfolgeproblem KW - Energieverbrauch Y1 - 2015 SP - 375 EP - 384 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Selmair, Maximilian A1 - Claus, Thorsten A1 - Trost, Marco A1 - Bley, Andreas A1 - Herrmann, Frank T1 - Job Shop Scheduling with Flexible Energy Prices T2 - Proceedings of the 30th EUROPEAN Conference on Modeling and Simulation, May 31st - June 3rd, 2016, Regensburg, Germany N2 - The rising energy prices – particularly over the last decade – pose a new challenge for the manufacturing industry. Reactions to climate change, such as the advancement of renewable energies, raise the expectation of further price increases and variations. Regarding the manufacturing industry, production planning and controlling can have a significant influence on the in-plant energy consumption. In this paper, we develop a scheduling method as a linear optimization model with the objective to minimize energy costs in a job shop production system. KW - Job Shop Scheduling KW - Flexible Energy Prices KW - Energy Efficient Production Planning KW - Energy Consumption KW - Standby Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.7148/2016-0488 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Herrmann, Frank A1 - Lange, Frederick A1 - Manitz, Michael T1 - Order release within hierarchical production planning and control using product specific clearing functions T2 - Proceedings of the International Annual Conference of the German Operations Research Society 2014 (OR 2014), Aachen, September 2 - 5, 2014, Germany KW - Hierarchische Produktionsplanung KW - Auftragsabwicklung KW - clearing functions Y1 - 2014 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Herrmann, Frank T1 - Schrittweise Verbesserung des Realbetriebs einer Produktionslinie mit simultanem Produktionsfortschritt T2 - Tagungsband zu "Wissenstransfer in der Wirtschaftsinformatik" im Rahmen der MKWI 2016; vom 09. bis 11. März 2016 an der Technischen Universität Ilmenau in Thüringen KW - Produktionslinie KW - Produktionsfortschritt Y1 - 2016 SP - 19 EP - 26 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Herrmann, Frank A1 - Manitz, Michael T1 - Some remarks to the shape of Clearing Functions T2 - Proceedings of the International Annual Conference of the German Operations Research Society 2015 (OR 2015) Wien, September 1 - 4 KW - clearing functions KW - production planning Y1 - 2015 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Herrmann, Frank T1 - Observations to Clearing Functions T2 - Proceedings of the 28th EURO Conference on Operations Research, July 12 - 15, 2015, Glasgow, Scotland KW - clearing functions Y1 - 2015 ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Herrmann, Frank T1 - Übungsbuch - Losbildung und Fertigungssteuerung BT - Aufgaben zur operativen Produktionsplanung und -steuerung N2 - Das Aufgabenbuch ergänzt die in Lehrbüchern erläuterten Verfahren der Losbildung und Fertigungssteuerung durch sehr detaillierte und präzise Lösungen. Losbildung und Fertigungssteuerung sind zentrale Kernelemente der operativen Produktionsplanung und -steuerung, insbesondere in kommerziell verfügbaren IT-Systemen. Daher sind diese Verfahren integrale Bestandteile von Veranstaltungen zur Produktion und Logistik, Produktionsplanung und -steuerungsysteme, Supply Chain Management usw. in Bachelor- und Masterstudiengängen an Hochschulen und Universitäten. Zu Beginn einer Lösung wird die verwendete Methodik soweit dargestellt, dass diese mit den in entsprechenden Vorlesungen gelehrten Inhalten ohne weitere Literatur verständlich ist. Einige Themen, wie die Betrachtung von knappen Kapazitäten und von schwankenden Durchlaufzeiten, gehen über den Inhalt von Standardlehrbüchern hinaus und dürften auch für Doktoranden interessant sein. KW - Produktionsplanung KW - Produktionssteuerung KW - PPS KW - Losgröße KW - Operative Planung KW - Aufgabensammlung Y1 - 2018 SN - 978-3-658-21567-5 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-21567-5 PB - Springer Fachmedien CY - Wiesbaden ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Westner, Markus T1 - Antecedents of success in IS offshoring projects BT - Proposal for an empirical research study T2 - Proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2009), Verona N2 - The paper presents a research model and a measurement instrument for a research-in-progress study on the antecedents of success in IS offshoring projects. In this empirical-confirmatory study, we intend to analyse the impact of the constructs “offshoring expertise”, “trust in offshore service provider”, “project suitability”, “knowledge transfer”, and “liaison quality” on offshore project success. Constructs and indicators are derived from an extensive literature review. We plan to formulate a structural equation model and to test it using partial least squares (PLS) as an analysis technique. Our research model addresses the paucity of research that quantitatively examines offshoring success. KW - Informationstechnik KW - Offshoring KW - Methode der partiellen kleinsten Quadrate KW - Offshoring KW - Outsourcing KW - Project success KW - Partial least squares Y1 - 2009 UR - https://aisel.aisnet.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1272&context=ecis2009 SP - 3104 EP - 3116 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Trost, Marco A1 - Forstner, Robert A1 - Claus, Thorsten A1 - Herrmann, Frank A1 - Frank, Ingo A1 - Terbrack, Hajo T1 - Sustainable Production Planning and Control: A Systematic Literature Review T2 - Proceedings of the 33th European Conference on Modelling and Simulation 2019 (ECMS), Caserta, Italy N2 - This article reviews the state of the art in research regarding sustainable extensions of hierarchical production planning. Sustainability is currently of considerable importance due to various interest groups. Hierarchical operational production planning and control is the state of the art in research as well as in industrial practice for planning of stations and their aggregations to production systems. Thus, it might be highly relevant to improve sustainability. In the literature mainly the scheduling level as well as the ecological dimension are considered. So the current research is limited to selected partial planning problems and incomplete with regard to sustainable aspects that emerge. KW - Produktionsplanung KW - Nachhaltigkeit KW - Literaturbericht KW - Sustainability KW - Production Planning and Control KW - Review Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.7148/2019 VL - 33,1 SP - 303 EP - 309 ER - TY - GEN ED - Herrmann, Frank ED - Claus, Thorsten ED - Manitz, Michael T1 - Produktionsplanung und –steuerung BT - Forschungsansätze, Methoden und deren Anwendungen N2 - Das vorliegende Buch stellt ausgewählte Planungsmodelle sowie Ansätze und Verfahren zur Lösung von Planungsproblemen der operativen Produktionsplanung und -steuerung vor und analysiert diese. Im Mittelpunkt der Diskussion stehen zwei wichtige, höchst praxisrelevante Aspekte, die in der aktuellen Forschung intensiv diskutiert werden: die Berücksichtigung der knappen Kapazitäten und der Umgang mit Unsicherheit. Die Autoren orientieren sich an der operativen Produktionsplanung und -steuerung als Rückgrat der Planung von Produktionsprozessen in kommerziell verfügbaren IT-Systemen. Umsetzungen dieser Ansätze in der industriellen Praxis werden exemplarisch erläutert. Dadurch wendet sich das Buch an Wissenschaftlicher, vor allem an Doktoranden, die sich über den aktuellen Stand der Forschung informieren wollen, ebenso wie an Anwender, die die Planung in ihren Unternehmen verbessern wollen. KW - PPS KW - Produktionsplanung KW - Produktionssteuerung Y1 - 2015 SN - 978-3-662-43542-7 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-43542-7 PB - Springer ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Westner, Markus T1 - IS offshoring BT - essays on project suitability and success N2 - Information systems (IS) offshoring describes the transfer of IS services to an offshoring service provider in a near or far away country. It has received growing attention in the past and there is a strong momentum in shifting IS services abroad. Markus Westner examines the IS offshoring phenomenon from the perspective of German companies. He first provides an overview of the current literature in the field of IS offshoring. Based on interviews with 47 industry experts, evaluation criteria for selecting projects for offshoring are identified. Finally, the author examines determinants of IS offshore project success in German companies based on a statistical analysis of 304 projects using structural equation modeling (PLS). KW - Informationssystem KW - Offshoring KW - Beschaffung KW - IT Strategie KW - Internationale Arbeitsteilung KW - Nearshoring KW - Offshore KW - Offshoring KW - Modeling Y1 - 2010 SN - 978-3-8349-2046-1 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-8349-8407-4 PB - Gabler CY - Wiesbaden ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Westner, Markus T1 - Information systems offshoring BT - A review of the literature KW - Informationstechnik KW - Offshoring Y1 - 2007 UR - https://fis.tu-dresden.de/portal/de/publications/information-systems-offshoring--a-review-of-the-literature(9fa44cab-24a3-4150-9ed0-cd73bec92d17).html CY - Dresden ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Herrmann, Frank A1 - Manitz, Michael T1 - Materialbedarfsplanung und Ressourcenbelegungsplanung BT - Durchführung in Produktionsplanungs- und -steuerungssystemen und ihre Analyse KW - Materialbedarf KW - Produktionsplanung KW - Produktionssteuerung KW - PPS Y1 - 2017 SN - 978-3-658-12543-1 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-12543-1 PB - Springer Gabler CY - Wiesbaden ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Westner, Markus ED - Picot, Arnold ED - Fischer, Tim T1 - Übersicht über aktuelle Weblog-Skripte und -Services T2 - Weblogs professionell : Grundlagen, Konzepte und Praxis im unternehmerischen Umfeld KW - Kommunikation KW - Unternehmen KW - Weblog KW - Wissensmanagement Y1 - 2007 SN - 978-3898643757 SP - 175 EP - 190 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Strahringer, Susanne A1 - Westner, Markus A1 - Kobus, Jörn T1 - Lean IT BT - Lean Management in IT-Organisationen JF - WISU - Das Wirtschaftsstudium KW - Informationstechnik KW - Lean Management Y1 - 2017 IS - 1 SP - 87 EP - 92 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Westner, Markus A1 - Strasser, Artur T1 - IT-Offshoring JF - WISU - Das Wirtschaftsstudium KW - Informationsmanagement KW - Offshoring Y1 - 2014 IS - 5 SP - 650 EP - 652 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Herrmann, Frank T1 - SIM-R/3: Softwaresystem zur Simulation der Regelung produktionslogistischer Prozesse durch das R/3-System der SAP AG JF - Wirtschaftsinformatik N2 - State of the art in enterprises is the control of business processes by enterprise resource planning systems (ERP systems) such as the R/3 system of SAP AG. A typical task in the implementation phase of ERP systems consists in the choice of an appropriate lot sizing procedure and the setup of its parameters. The existing procedures do not deliver the best results for each business process. So, a business specific setup is required. Unfortunately, there is no knowledge of good parameter settings for typical business processes. Therefore, different parameter settings have to be tested out on real business processes over long periods (e. g. over several years). Of course, such an approach fails due to time restrictions. In addition, the literature argues that an automated software process — contrary to a physical process — is often never called in question or further optimized. An alternative offers a simulation of business processes which is controlled by an ERP system. In the laboratory of information science and production logistics (LIP) at the University of Applied Sciences, Regensburg, a pilot implementation of a system for simulating the control of production processes by the SAP R/3-System (SIM-R/3) was developed. SIM-R/3 allows such a simulation over long periods. KW - Fertigungslogistik KW - Enterprise-Resource-Planning KW - Simulation KW - SAP R/3 KW - eM-Plant KW - Regelung produktionslogistischer Prozesse KW - Planungsverfahren und-parameter in ERP-Systemen Y1 - 2007 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s11576-007-0034-5 VL - 49 IS - 2 SP - 127 EP - 133 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Herrmann, Frank A1 - Lange, Frederick A1 - Almeder, Christian T1 - Capacity estimation based on clearing functions for the capacitated lot-sizing problem T2 - Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Lot-Sizing, August 26th - 29th, 2014, Porto, Portugal N2 - Single-stage capacitated lot-sizing problems (CLSP) are essential for manyplanning tasks in production systems. Due to the hierarchical planning approach, which is widely used in industrial practice and implemented in commercial enterprise resource planning as well as production planning and controlsystems, a subsequent scheduling is necessary to gain executable productionplans. Capacity consumption depends on many factors as, for example, systems workload, machine availability, or yield. Thus, a feasible and optimalsolution of the CLSP may lead to unplanned delays after sequencing and processing the orders on the shop floor. Using a so called clearing function (CF),which represents the relationship between the workload and the output of a production system, this capacity consumption in a CLSP is improved in various ways and tested on a real-world application. KW - Hierarchische Produktionsplanung KW - Kapazitätsplanung KW - Losgröße KW - clearing functions Y1 - 2014 UR - https://www.emse.fr/~absi/IWLS2014/proceedings_IWLS_2014.pdf ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Herrmann, Frank T1 - Genetic algorithm with simulation for scheduling of a flow shop with simultaneously loaded stations T2 - Proceedings of the 28th EUROPEAN Conference on Modeling and Simulation, May 27th - 30th, 2014, Brescia, Italy N2 - In this study, a real world flow shop with a transportation restriction is regarded. This restriction reduces the set of feasible schedules even more than the no-buffer restrictions discussed in the literature in the case of limited storage. Still this problem is NP-hard. Since this scheduling problem is integrated in the usual hierarchical planning, the tardiness is minimised. Compared to even specific priority rule for this class of problems the suggested genetic algorithm delivers significant better results. The specific structure of this class of problems complicates the calculation of the performance criteria. This is solved by a simulation algorithm. Proceedings 28th European Conference on Modelling and Simulation. KW - Ablaufplanung KW - Hierarchische Produktionsplanung KW - Flow-shop-Problem KW - Reihenfolgeproblem KW - Genetischer Algorithmus KW - simulation of restrictions KW - scheduling KW - flow-shop KW - no-buffer (blocking) KW - no-wait KW - genetic algorithm KW - real world application Y1 - 2014 UR - http://www.scs-europe.net/dlib/2014/ecms14papers/simo_ECMS2014_0076.pdf ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Herrmann, Frank T1 - Simulation der Regelung von Unternehmensprozessen durch ein Enterprise Ressource Planning System am Beispiel von SAP R/3 Y1 - 2007 UR - https://www.hs-nordhausen.de/fileadmin/_migrated/content_uploads/FHN_Schriftenreihe_Heft_3_Herrmann_08_06_2007_01.pdf PB - Verlag der Hochschule Nordhausen ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Herrmann, Frank A1 - Tsakpinis, Athanassios A1 - Wiedermann, Wolfgang T1 - Praxisnahe Ausbildung an der FH-Regensburg mit dem Schwerpunkt SAP JF - Krcmar, Helmut; Rautenstrauch, Claus; Wittges, Holger und Schrader; Heino (Hrsg.): Wirtschaftsinformatik-Ausbildung mit SAP®-Software KW - Hochschulstudium KW - Wirtschaftsinformatik KW - Praxisbezug Y1 - 2006 PB - Josef Eul Verlag CY - Lohmar – Köln ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Wohanka, Christian A1 - Helmstreit, Herbert A1 - Herrmann, Frank T1 - Anbindung von Halbleiter Fertigungsautomaten an die SAP NetWeaver Plattform T2 - Forschungsbericht der Hochschule Regensburg KW - Fertigung KW - Automation KW - Halbleiterbauelement KW - SAP NetWeaver Y1 - 2006 SP - 51 EP - 58 PB - Weka Info Verlag CY - Regensburg ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Herrmann, Frank T1 - Simulated Determination and Usage of a Clearing Function for Leadtime Estimation T2 - Proceedings of the 27th EURO Conference on Operations Research, July 13 - 18, 2014, Barcelona, Spain KW - clearing functions KW - lead time estimation Y1 - 2014 ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Herrmann, Frank A1 - Kreutz, Michael T1 - Simulations-System für das R/3-System (SIM-R/3) der SAP AG T2 - Forschungsbericht der Hochschule Regensburg KW - SAP R/3 KW - Simulation Y1 - 2006 SP - 46 EP - 50 PB - Weka Info Verlag CY - Regensburg ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Heindl, Martina A1 - Herrmann, Frank A1 - Juraske, Erich T1 - Simulation von Einlagerstrategien T2 - Forschungsbericht der Hochschule Regensburg KW - Lagerhaltung KW - Raumbedarf KW - Simulation Y1 - 2007 SP - 30 EP - 39 PB - Weka Info Verlag CY - Regensburg ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Herrmann, Frank T1 - Scheduling a flow shop with simultaneously loaded stations: A real world application JF - Journal of Control Science and Engineering N2 - Companies use special designed flow shops, in order to satisfy specific demands. Products need to be transported (from one station to the next station) by a crane and the way of working of this crane excludes the intermediate storage (of a work piece). In addition, the way of working restricts the set of feasible schedules even more than the no-buffer restriction discussed in the literature in the case of limited storage. Since this scheduling problem is integrated in the usual hierarchical planning, the tardiness is minimised. A linear optimisation model is presented to provide a formal description of this NP-hard problem. It is also used to explain the performance of priority rule based heuristic solutions on small test problems. In detail, priority rules as well as a priority rule based branch and bound procedure are analysed; priority rules are regarded, because a priority rule is still the standard procedure for on-line scheduling in industrial practise. Out of successful priority rules in the literature the best one is identified by an extensive simulative investigation. An improved look-ahead is realised by a restricted search over all possible schedules. KW - Fließfertigung KW - Flow-shop-Problem KW - Scheduling KW - Real world flow shop with restrictions KW - No buffer and no wait KW - Minimising tardiness KW - Optimisation model KW - Priority rules KW - Priority rule based branch and bound procedure Y1 - 2015 U6 - https://doi.org/10.17265/2328-2231/2015.03.004 VL - 3 SP - 147 EP - 163 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Vitzthum, Thorsten A1 - Herrmann, Frank T1 - Evidence of the Relevance of Master Production Scheduling for Hierarchical Production Planning. T2 - Proceedings, 31st European Conference on Modelling and Simulation (ECMS) 2017, 23rd - May 26th, Budapest, Hungary N2 - This paper deals with the significance of master production scheduling for hierarchical production planning. Production planning in a typical manufacturing organization is a sequence of complex decisions which depends on a number of factors, such as number of products, complexity of products, number of production sites, and number of work centres in each production site. The main idea in hierarchical production planning is to break down larger problems into smaller, more manageable sub problems. Starting with aggregate production planning, the benefits of using master production scheduling for material requirements planning will be conveyed. The main benefit of master production scheduling is more detailed planning. The production groups are thereby disaggregated into final products and the production site disaggregated into work centres. In order to plan capacities, resource profiles are used. By working with resource profiles production lead time data are taken into account to provide time-phased projections of the capacity requirements for each work centre (Vollmann et al. 2005). The case study will show that more accurate planning and consideration of production lead time through master production scheduling results in a demand program that can be realized without shortages or delays. KW - Hierarchische Produktionsplanung KW - Fertigungsprogrammplanung Y1 - 2017 SN - 978-0-9932440-4-9 U6 - https://doi.org/10.7148/2017-0475 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Westner, Markus A1 - Strahringer, Susanne T1 - Current state of IS offshoring research BT - A descriptive meta-analysis T2 - Mäkiö, Juho; Betz, Stefanie; Stephan, Rolf (Eds.): Offshoring of software development. Methods and tools for risk management. Karlsruhe: Universitätsverlag Karlsruhe N2 - This paper empirically examines the current state of the IS offshoring phenomenon in Germany regarding project characteristics and success patterns. Relying on a sample of 304 projects conducted at various industry sectors and companies, results show that IS offshoring primarily occurs in sectors Telecommunications and IT at large corporations. Cost reduction is the main reason for going offshore and offshore projects are executed as part of a larger program at companies. Noticeably, most projects are delivered from India. Additionally, neither captive offshoring nor offshore outsourcing dominates as a de-livery option. Comparing different project subgroups regarding project success, the results reveal that projects delivered by an internal or partially owned service provider are more successful. Other project characteristics such as a project’s embedded-ness in a larger offshoring program, a project’s size, or a project’s offshoring degree in terms of relatively offshored labor hours show few significant differences. The paper addresses the paucity of empirical research on the current state of the IS offshoring phenomenon in Germany. KW - Informationsmanagement KW - Offshoring KW - Erfolgsfaktor KW - Offshoring KW - Nearshoring KW - Informations systems sourcing KW - Outcome KW - Project success KW - Success factors Y1 - 2007 UR - http://jitm.ubalt.edu/XXI-1/article4.pdf SP - 7 EP - 22 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Amann, Matthias A1 - Herrmann, Frank A1 - Lutz, Christian A1 - Meier, Markus ED - Barton, Thomas ED - Erdlenbruch, Burkhard ED - Herrmann, Frank ED - Müller, Christian T1 - Grad der Zerstörung für eine lokale Suche bei einer taktgetriebenen Fließfertigung T2 - Prozesse, Technologien, Anwendungen, Systeme und Management. Angewandte Forschung in der Wirtschaftsinformatik. Tagungsband zur 27. AKWI-Fachtagung vom 07. bis 10.09.2014 an der Oberbayerischen Technischen Hochschule Regensburg N2 - Unternehmen produzieren oftmals viele Varianten für ein kleines Kundensegment und in kleinen Stückzahlen auf sehr teuren Produktionsanlagen. Deren effiziente und effektive Nutzung erfordert eine möglichst gute Planung der Belegung der Stationen mit Aufträgen. Sehr wirkungsvoll bei Fertigungslinien sind lokale Suchverfahren. Sie erzielen ein lokales Optimum. Um ein globales Optimum zu erreichen, wird die Suche von einem anderen Punkt des Suchraums fortgesetzt. Dabei sollte kein willkürlicher Punkt gewählt werden, sondern nur ein Teil des lokalen Optimums zerstört werden. Unterschiedlich starke Zerstörungen werden für eine taktgetriebene Fließfertigung analysiert. KW - Fließvertigung KW - Fertigungsplanung KW - Optimierung Y1 - 2014 UR - http://www.akwi.de/documents/AKWI_Tagungsband2014.pdf SP - 44 EP - 54 PB - Verlag News & Media CY - Berlin ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Lange, Frederick A1 - Herrmann, Frank A1 - Claus, Thorsten T1 - Simulation based capacity estimation for a model of order release planning under the consideration of service levels T2 - Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Simulation in Production and Logistics, October 9 - 11, 2013, Paderborn, Germany N2 - Clearing Functions describe the nonlinear relationship between the orders which are in process and the output in capacitated productions systems under high utilization. These Clearing Function can be derived analytical by using steady-state queuing models or empirical by using simulation. We show how to estimate a Clearing Function for a single-level multi-product production system by using a simulation model. This non-linear Clearing Function is integrated into a model of order release planning. We extend this model to consider the uncertainty of the demand by using a Beta service level. We compare our model with an inventory management policy under different demand conditions. KW - Clearing function KW - linear programming KW - order release planning KW - simulation Y1 - 2013 UR - http://www.scs-europe.net/conf/ecms2013/ecms2013proceedings.pdf SN - 978-0-9564944-6-7 SP - 741 EP - 747 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Herrmann, Frank T1 - Simulation based priority rules for scheduling of a flow shop with simultaneously loaded stations T2 - Proceedings of the 27th EUROPEAN Conference on Modeling and Simulation, May 27th - 30th, 2013, Ålesund, Norway N2 - In this study, a real world flow shop with a transportation restriction is regarded. This restriction reduces the set of feasible schedules even more than the no-buffer restrictions discussed in the literature in the case of limited storage. Since this scheduling problem is integrated in the usual hierarchical planning, the tardiness is minimised. This NP-hard problem is solved by priority rules, because of the addressed dynamic environment (and a high number of jobs) at the company site. Due to the technological restrictions the real duration of a job is significantly larger than its net processing time. By a simulation of the processing time many priority rules are improved and some even significantly. With extensive simulations successful priority rules in the literature are analysed. KW - simulation of processing time KW - scheduling KW - flow-shop KW - no-buffer (blocking) KW - no-wait KW - priority rules KW - real world application KW - Hierarchische Produktionsplanung KW - Flow-shop-Problem KW - Reihenfolgeproblem Y1 - 2013 U6 - https://doi.org/10.7148/2013-0775 SP - 775 EP - 781 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Metlicka, Magdalena A1 - Davendra, Donald A1 - Herrmann, Frank A1 - Meier, Markus A1 - Amann, Matthias T1 - GPU accelerated NEH algorithm T2 - Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Production and Logistics Systems (CIPLS), Orlando, FL, 09.-12. Dec. 2014 N2 - This research aims to develop a CUDA accelerated NEH algorithm for the permutative flowshop scheduling problem with makespan criterion. NEH has been shown in the literature as the best constructive heuristic for this particular problem. The CUDA based NEH aims to speed up the processing time by utilising the GPU cores for parallel evaluation. In order to show the versatility and scalability of the CUDA based NEH, four new higher dimensional Taillard sets are generated. The experiments are conducted on the CPU and GPU and pairwise compared. Percentage relative difference and paired t-test both confirm that the GPU based NEH significantly improves on the execution time compared to the sequential CPU version for all the high dimensional problem instances. KW - Flow-shop-Problem KW - CUDA KW - Graphics processing units KW - Instruction sets KW - Kernel KW - Parallel processing KW - Synchronization KW - Algorithm design and analysis KW - Arrays KW - Parallelverarbeitung Y1 - 2014 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1109/CIPLS.2014.7007169 SP - 114 EP - 119 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Herrmann, Frank T1 - Perturbation in Local Search for Scheduling T2 - Proceedings of the 29th EUROPEAN Conference on Modeling and Simulation, May 26th - 29th, 2015, Albena, Bulgaria N2 - Local search is an established meta heuristic for scheduling problems. To avoid of getting stucked in a local optimum, the achieved solution is destroyed. Usually, this is done randomly. Here, two problem specific procedures are suggested. One focuses on jobs with the highest difference between the actual processing time and the net processing time of the job and the other one tries to remove jobs which causes the highest idle time for themselves or other jobs. Comprehensive simulations of test scheduling problems as well as a real world application show that both problem specific procedures outperform a random procedure. KW - Ablaufplanung KW - Lokales Suchverfahren KW - Local search KW - Perturbation KW - Scheduling KW - Flow shop KW - Flow-shop-Problem Y1 - 2015 U6 - https://doi.org/10.7148/2015-0446 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Herrmann, Frank T1 - Simulation of a stochastic model for master production scheduling in a hierarchical production planning system used in industrial practise to cope with demand uncertainty T2 - Proceedings of the 26th EURO Conference on Operations Research, July 1 - 4, 2013, Rome, Italy N2 - Demand uncertainty for master production scheduling is addressed over the last years by approaches of stochastic or robust optimisation. In this contribution a more detailed model is regarded. Instead of analysing the planning results by a cost function, and so implicitly assume that the plans are realizable, here the effects of robust master production scheduling are evaluated using a planning hierarchy that is common in industrial applications. The primary objective is to minimise tardiness of customer order deliveries, and the secondary objective is to minimise inventory of end products. Y1 - 2013 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Englberger, Julian A1 - Herrmann, Frank T1 - Estimating Capacity Load Factors in Master Production Scheduling by the use of Stochastic Optimization T2 - Tagungsband zu der Tagung Logistikmanagement 2013, 10. - 13. Oktober 2013, Bremen, Deutschland KW - Produktionsplanung KW - Ablaufplanung KW - Kapazitätsplanung KW - Stochastische Optimierung Y1 - 2013 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - von Bary, Benedikt A1 - Westner, Markus A1 - Strahringer, Susanne T1 - IT Backsourcing BT - Insights and Implications From a Global Survey With IT Practitioners JF - International Journal of IT/Business Alignment and Governance N2 - With the growing importance of IT as competitive advantage, companies aim to increase their digital transformation activities. Consequently, companies are also revisiting their existing IT sourcing arrangements. In the article at hand, the authors explore the concept of IT backsourcing by presenting the results from a quantitative online survey with global IT practitioners. The authors confirm that backsourcing is frequently applied in practice, with key reasons being dissatisfaction with service or relationship quality and higher than expected costs. Further, the authors identify IT services with an increased likelihood of being backsourced, e.g., application development or data center, and discuss the effect of a CIO change on the backsourcing decision. In addition, the authors show that there are differences in the perceptions on the antecedents and the results of backsourcing decisions between management and operational level. The authors conclude with practical implications for IT managers based on their findings. KW - Outsourcing KW - Backsourcing KW - Business-IT Alignment KW - CIO Change KW - Digital Transformation KW - Insourcing Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.4018/IJITBAG.2019070102 VL - 10 IS - 2 PB - IGI Global ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Davendra, Donald A1 - Herrmann, Frank A1 - Bialic-Davendra, Magdalena T1 - Scheduling tardiness constrained flow shop with simultaneously loaded stations using Genetic Algorithm T2 - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Intelligent Systems, Metaheuristics & Swarm Intelligence (ISMSI 2020): Thimphu, Kingdom of Bhutan during March 21-22, 2020 N2 - In this study, a real world flow shop with a transportation restriction is regarded. This restriction reduces the set of feasible schedules even more than the no-buffer restrictions discussed in the literature in the case of limited storage. Still this problem is NP-hard. Since this scheduling problem is integrated in the usual hierarchical planning, the tardiness is minimised. Compared to even specific priority rule for this class of problems the suggested genetic algorithm delivers significant better results. The specific structure of this class of problems complicates the calculation of the performance criteria. This is solved by a simulation algorithm. KW - simulation of restrictions KW - scheduling, KW - flow-shop KW - no-buffer (blocking) KW - no-wait KW - genetic algorithm KW - real world application KW - Ablaufplanung KW - Hierarchische Produktionsplanung KW - Flow-shop-Problem KW - Reihenfolgeproblem KW - Genetischer Algorithmus Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1145/3396474.3396475 PB - ACM ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Trost, Marco A1 - Claus, Thorsten A1 - Teich, Enrico A1 - Herrmann, Frank T1 - Die soziale Dimension in der nachhaltigen hierarchischen Produktionsplanung – Stand der Forschung und Ansätze zur Weiterentwicklung bestehender Planungsmodelle T2 - Proceedings zur NAMA 2016 (NAMA 2016), October 5th - 7th, 2016, Dresden, Germany N2 - Bei der Produktionsplanung steht die Optimierung des Produktionssystems eines Unternehmens im Vordergrund. In diesem Beitrag wird auf Basis der hierarchischen Produktionsplanung aufgezeigt, dass neben ökonomischen und ökologischen Aspekten insbesondere auch soziale Effekte bei der Entscheidungsfindung zu berücksichtigen sind. Dazu werden für die Hauptproduktionsprogrammplanung, die Losgrößenplanung und die Ressourcenbelegungsplanung dargelegt, welche sozialen Größen berücksichtigt werden können beziehungsweise bereits berücksichtigt sind. Überdies wird ein Modellansatz zur Hauptproduktionsprogrammplanung vorgestellt, der auf die Beseitigung identifizierter Forschungslücken abzielt. KW - Hierarchische Produktionsplanung KW - Nachhaltigkeit KW - Soziale Verantwortung Y1 - 2016 ER -