Endowed Chair of Procurement

“State of the Procurement Profession Survey 2025” – fresh insights just presented at in Orlando, FL.
If you’re interested in the full findings, the complete report is now available on our website.

It's exam season. 07:55 am and library seats are the hottest tickets in town. Good luck with the exams, everyone - and may your coffee be strong.

From cold Minneapolis to sunny Las Vegas and from academic conference to practitioner conference: Our next stop is to present the key results of our 2024 "State of the Procurement Profession" study.

Intensive weekend in Minneapolis, MN with this year's POMS conference: Presenting research (thanks to Ruth Schültken!), catching up with friends, and collecting ideas + inspiration for future projects. Only the Minnesota-weather was sub par, but the next stop will be nicer...

My first "Fu**up Night" event 😄 - pretty entertaining approach to learning from failure and building a constructive error culture.

Visiting Porsche's new assembly line for their BEV sportscar Taycan in Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen with the winners of the Porsche Case Challenge, which was part of our course "Strategic Sourcing" in Spring.

Retired but not tired: Dan Krause, one of the most cited researchers in supplier management, visited us just before the start of the new semester.

Summer School on Global Supply Chains 2023: Two great weeks in bustling Bangkok with current research and case studies with our friends from Austria, China, Singapore, and Thailand.

Not running out of running pictures 😅. This morning fun run with former co-author and friend .camar in sunny Mannheim.

Thank you for your visit in Mannheim and the joint course, Matthias - it was a lot of fun!

"Homecoming 2023" with former and current researchers of the Endowed Chair of Procurement.