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If it's January, it must be Cambridge
Published on Monday, 05 February 2018
The Supply Chain Management Review put the LCL master students in the spotlight. Bob Trebilcock, Editorial Director, reports on the annual MIT SCALE master student conference time called Independen...

The 2018 MIT SCALE Connect Conference experience
Published on Thursday, 15 February 2018
Three exciting weeks on the Supply Chain Conference at the MIT campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Flight wars 2.0
Published on Thursday, 15 February 2018
Despite the increased liberalisation of the skies, many in the aviation industry still argue the lack of a level playing field.

Logistics.public.lu: new portal for logistics and international trade
Published on Friday, 16 February 2018
The Luxembourg government has launched a new information website for companies in the logistics and international trade sector which aims to centralise in one single location, information on the cu...

Green supply chains in focus
Published on Thursday, 22 February 2018
Weichun Chen, a Ph.D. student from College of Management and Economics, Tianjin University, China, who won the first prize of the China’s National Postgraduate Mathematical Contest in Modelling in...

Partnership with ACL to offer mobility management training
Published on Thursday, 01 March 2018
The University of Luxembourg and the Automobile Club du Luxembourg (ACL) have joined forces to offer a three-day course in mobility management for companies based in Luxembourg. This pilot project...

eXplore Conference: Navigating the future of supply chains
Event date: Thursday, 01 March 2018
Hour: 10:00 16:30
Place: Chambre des métiers du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg
Speaker: Chris Caplice, MIT CTL, Joachim Arts, LCL

GOOGLE CLOUD presenting at LCL Industry Seminar Series
Event date: Friday, 02 March 2018
Hour: 14:00 17:00
Place: Limpertsberg Campus Bâtiment des Sciences
Speaker: Javier Tordable, Technical Director, Office of the CTO at Google Cloud

NS, Dutch Railways, presenting at LCL Industry Seminar Series
Event date: Wednesday, 07 March 2018
Hour: 16:30 18:00
Place: Limpertsberg Campus Bâtiment des Sciences
Speaker: Bob Huisman, Manager Maintenance Research & Development at NS

The future is now for supply chain innovation
Published on Thursday, 08 March 2018
The Luxembourg Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management hosted its second annual eXplore conference on 1 March featuring high-profile speakers from industry and academia giving insights int...

LCL joins state visit in France
Published on Tuesday, 13 March 2018
The LCL has been invited to join the state visit and trade mission in Paris on 19 March.

FERRERO presenting at LCL Industry Seminar series
Event date: Wednesday, 14 March 2018
Hour: 16:30 18:00
Place: Limpertsberg Campus Bâtiment des Sciences
Speaker: Sara Salvatore, Sustainability Manager & Michele Pisetta, Sustainable Project Developer at Ferrero

Flying the flag for logistics during official state visit
Published on Friday, 23 March 2018
The Luxembourg Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management (LCL) took part in the Grand Duchy’s official state visit to France in March.

EXXONMOBIL CHEMICAL CO presenting at LCL Industry Seminar Series
Event date: Wednesday, 28 March 2018
Hour: 16:30 18:00
Place: Limpertsberg Campus Bâtiment des Sciences
Speaker: Dante Comotti, Global Supply & Demand Manager at ExxonMobil Chemical Co

LSCM students on the field at CFL Multimodal
Published on Thursday, 29 March 2018
On Friday, 23 March, Barbara Chevalier in charge of strategy and business development at CFL Multimodal and her team have opened their doors to the University of Luxembourg.

KPMG presenting at LCL Industry Seminar Series
Event date: Wednesday, 18 April 2018
Hour: 16:30 18:00
Place: Limpertsberg Campus Bâtiment des Sciences Room BSC-E00-001
Speaker: Arnaud Hemricourt, Manager, Supply Chain & Operations & Cécile Bonnomet, Campus & Branding Officer

Design of multi-component periodic maintenance programmes...
Published on Thursday, 26 April 2018
The manuscript of Prof. Joachim Arts and Prof. Rob Basten, has been accepted and posted in IISE Transactions.

When going green is not black and white
Published on Monday, 07 May 2018
In a new book, MIT professor Yossi Sheffi examines the trade-offs companies face when grappling with sustainability issues.

Spare Parts or Buffer? ....
Published on Monday, 14 May 2018
....How to design a flow line with unreliable machines

Amazon presenting at LCL Industry Seminar Series
Event date: Wednesday, 16 May 2018
Hour: 16:30 18:00
Place: Limpertsberg Campus Bâtiment central Room BC – E02 – 2.08
Speaker: Foucauld Dufour, European Lead Recruiter Supply Chain and Transportation/Logistic, Amazon UK

Revenue management applications in service industries in focus
Published on Friday, 18 May 2018
Nicole Perez Becker joined the Luxembourg Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management (LCL) as a full-time PhD student in February 2018.

Nils Löhndorf joins LCL as associate professor
Published on Monday, 28 May 2018
The Luxembourg Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management is growing its team with the addition of Nils Löhndorf as an associate professor.

How do delivery variety decisions contribute to sales?
Event date: Thursday, 31 May 2018
Hour: 15:00 16:30
Place: BC 1.15
Speaker: Prof. Martin Dresner, University of Maryland

The rise of AI: Preparing for the change
Event date: Tuesday, 05 June 2018
Hour: 13:00 19:00
Place: BGL BNP Paribas (Kirchberg Headquarters)
Speaker: Prof. Benny Mantin, University of Luxembourg, BGL BNP Paribas, SAS, CSSF, Amazon Webservices, Inbox, Faction XYZ

Spare part control and repair optimisation saves costs
Published on Thursday, 07 June 2018
LCL PhD student Melvin Drent represented the Luxembourg centre in Houston.

Digitalisation in supply chain management workshop
Event date: Thursday, 07 June 2018
Hour: 9:00 08-06 \| 15:00
Place: Limpertsberg Campus
Speaker: David Gonzalves, Malaysia Institute for Supply Chain Innovation, Sergei Tikhomirov & Joachim Arts, University of Luxembourg

Opening: Doctoral candidate in Logistics and Supply Chain Management
Published on Monday, 11 June 2018
The Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance of the University of Luxembourg has an opening for a Doctoral candidate (PhD student) in Logistics and Supply Chain Management (M/F).

LCL shares its expertise on artificial intelligence in supply chains
Published on Tuesday, 12 June 2018
The fifth Analytics Summit hosted by SAS and BGL Paribas took place in Luxembourg on 05 June 2018 featuring the LCL director, Benny Mantin, as one of the keynote speakers.

Lunchseminar in Economics: An Analytical and Empirical Look at Hotel Standby Upgrades

Event date: Wednesday, 13 June 2018

Hour: 13:00 14:00

Place: CREA, 162a, avenue de la Faïencerie L-1511 Luxembourg, Bâtiment des Sciences Room BS 104

Speaker: By Mark Ferguson, Darla Moore School of Business, USA

The LCL presented at Gdansk Entrepreneurship Incubator
Published on Monday, 25 June 2018
European logistics and intermodality identified as key factors

LCL Research fest
Event date: Thursday, 28 June 2018
Hour: 13:30 19:00
Place: Limpertsberg Campus, Central Building (1st floor)
Speaker: Prof. Benny Mantin, University of Luxembourg

Inaugural LCL Master cohort celebrates successful year
Published on Friday, 29 June 2018
Students from the Master in Logistics and Supply Chain Management celebrated the successful completion of their studies on 28 June, presenting their research to their professors, peers and LCL indu...

MIT supply chain management programme ranked no. 1 in the world
Published on Wednesday, 04 July 2018
The Master’s Programme of MIT Global SCALE (Supply Chain and Logistics Excellence) Network has been ranked as the world's No. 1 graduate business programme in supply chain and logistics by Eduniver...

Melvin Drent receives AFR individual PhD grant
Published on Tuesday, 31 July 2018
“Dual-Sourcing Strategies that Create Carbon Efficient Supply Chains”

Top-tier publication in supply chain management
Published on Thursday, 06 September 2018
A paper on strategic consumers and their impact on the inventory management of companies, co-authored by Prof. Benny Mantin, is set to appear in the top-tier journal Productions and Operations Mana...

LCL team further strengthened with new associate professor
Published on Tuesday, 11 September 2018
The Luxembourg Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management (LCL) added another member to its team with the appointment of Associate Professor Anne Lange in September.

What about maintenance location?
Published on Thursday, 20 September 2018
Deciding the locations of facilities for a business is a difficult strategic decision.

LCL announces launch of 2018-2019 executive education
Published on Friday, 21 September 2018
The Luxembourg Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management (LCL) is launching its executive education activities for the 2018-2019 academic year with a financial analysis workshop in November.

Welcome to the second cohort of LSCM master students
Published on Friday, 21 September 2018
High-profile students have been recruited for the second cohort of the Master in Logistics and Supply Chain Management, with backgrounds in international business and economics, procurement managem...

Best thesis award winner is Melvin Drent
Published on Monday, 08 October 2018
“Stocking and Expediting in Two-Echelon Spare Parts Inventory Systems under System Availability Constraints”

Pricing, revenue management, and the behavioral factor
Event date: Tuesday, 23 October 2018
Hour: 18:00 20:00
Place: Limperetsberg Campus Bâtiment des Sciences BSC E00 003
Speaker: Benny Mantin

Supply chain financial analysis, executive education
Event date: Thursday, 08 November 2018
Hour: 8:30 09-11 \| 16:00
Place: Limpertsberg Campug
Speaker: James B. Rice, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Prof. Anne Lange, University of Luxembourg

Supply chain finance for executives
Published on Monday, 12 November 2018
The Luxembourg Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management (LCL) offered an executive education programme dedicated to Supply Chain Financial Analysis.

Open position: Ass. Professor in Logistics & Supply Chain Management
Published on Friday, 16 November 2018
The Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance of the University of Luxembourg invites applications:

3-D printing: Just an additional manufacturing method or a supply chain disruptor?
Event date: Wednesday, 21 November 2018
Hour: 16:00 18:00
Place: Room BSC-E00-001 Limpertsberg Campus
Speaker: Rob Basten, University of Technology, Eindhoven, Joachim Arts, University of Luxembourg

Revenue management in air cargo industry research project
Published on Monday, 03 December 2018
You Wu joined the Luxembourg Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management (LCL) as a full-time PhD student in November 2018.

Optimal stock replenishment via flexible contracts with spot market
Event date: Wednesday, 05 December 2018
Hour: 16:30 18:00
Place: Limpertsberg Campus Bâtiment des Sciences BSC001
Speaker: Mustafa Çagri Gürbüz, Research Affiliate at the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics

The LCL presented at conference on sustainability
Published on Friday, 07 December 2018
2nd International Conference on Sustainability, Human Geography and Environment 2018 (ICSHGE18)

Discover supply chain trends during eXplore Week 2019
Published on Tuesday, 11 December 2018
The third annual eXplore Conference and an executive workshop on the “Top 3 supply chain trends in 2019” will take place from 12 to 15 March 2019, hosted by the Luxembourg Centre for Logistics and...

LCL graduate wins Prix Germain Dondelinger
Published on Tuesday, 18 December 2018
The Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance on 12 December celebrated the graduation of its Master students, with a candidate from the Master in Logistics and Supply Chain Management (LSCM) winning t...

Modeling real-world urban logistics systems – using data and models to master the last mile
Event date: Wednesday, 19 December 2018
Hour: 15:30 17:00
Place: Limpertsberg Campus
Speaker: Matthias Winkenbach, Director of the MIT Megacity Logistics Lab

Master programme admission webinar
Event date: Thursday, 24 January 2019
Hour: 17:00 18:00

eXplore Conference: Navigating the green supply chain
Event date: Tuesday, 12 March 2019
Hour: 9:30 17:00
Place: Chambre des métiers du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg
Speaker: Josué Velázquez Martínez, MIT, Anne Lange & Nils Löhndorf, LCL

"Top 3 supply chain trends in 2019" workshop
Event date: Wednesday, 13 March 2019
Hour: 9:00 15-03 \| 16:30
Place: Limpertsberg Campus
Speaker: Josue Velazquez Martinez, Frank Bolten, Nils Löhndorf

Opening: Doctoral candidate in Logistics and Supply Chain Management
Published on Thursday, 14 March 2019
The Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance of the University of Luxembourg has an opening for a Doctoral Researcher (PhD student) in Logistics and Supply Chain Management (M/F).

Opening: Post-doctoral candidate in Logistics and Supply Chain Mgt
Published on Thursday, 14 March 2019
The Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance of the University of Luxembourg invites applications for a Post-Doctoral position in Supply Chain Management (m/f).

Sustainability in the supply chain
Published on Monday, 18 March 2019
The Luxembourg Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management hosted its third annual eXplore conference on 12 March featuring high-profile speakers from industry and academia giving insights int...

Open Day at the University of Luxembourg
Event date: Saturday, 23 March 2019
Hour: 9:00 16:00
Place: Belval Campus Maison du Savoir, "Auditoires" entrance

LSCM master student Asra Yasmeen wins “The Eagle eye award”
Published on Monday, 25 March 2019
The prize has been given during the Ideation Camp 2019 of the Uni.lu Incubator. The Ideation Camp is a 72-hour learning by doing experience, a workshop on entrepreneurship. In the final session, st...

Digital transformation, demystified
Event date: Wednesday, 27 March 2019
Hour: 16:45 18:15
Place: Limpertsberg Campus Bâtiment des Sciences Room BSC-E00-001
Speaker: Bruno Wozniak, SES

Spare parts inventory control under a fixed-term contract with a long-down constraint
Event date: Wednesday, 03 April 2019
Hour: 16:45 18:15
Place: Limpertsberg Campus Bâtiment des Sciences Room BSC-E00-001
Speaker: Douniel Lamghari-Idrissi, Contract management – Customer Supply Chain at ASML

3D printing affecting supply chain decisions?
Published on Wednesday, 10 April 2019
The 4th session of the Digital Supply Chain Roundtable Series, on the topic “3D printing: Just an additional manufacturing method or a supply chain disruptor?”, was held at the Luxembourg Centre fo...

Maersk ocean freight
Event date: Wednesday, 24 April 2019
Hour: 16:45 18:15
Place: Limpertsberg Campus Bâtiment des Sciences Room BSC-E00-001
Speaker: Nicolas Easton, Damco - Maersk

Convergence in airline operations: The case of ground times
Published on Friday, 26 April 2019
The Journal of Air Transport Management has posted a paper dedicated to airline operations and initiated by an LCL researcher.

Revenue management special session
Event date: Tuesday, 14 May 2019
Hour: 13:30 15:00
Place: Limpertsberg Campus Bâtiment Central
Speaker: Iris Van Goethem, Cargolux & Benny Mantin, LCL

Supply chain cybersecurity - Roundtable
Event date: Wednesday, 15 May 2019
Hour: 16:00 18:00
Place: Limpertsberg Campus Bâtiment des Sciences, Room BS 001
Speaker: Daniela Menzky, CyNation Ltd

Public procurement
Event date: Wednesday, 15 May 2019
Hour: 16:45 18:15
Place: Limpertsberg Campus Bâtiment des Sciences Room BSC-E00-001
Speaker: Marie Fétis, University of Luxembourg

Exact solution of single allocation hub location problems
Event date: Tuesday, 04 June 2019
Hour: 10:30 12:00
Place: Room BC – E01 – 1.15
Speaker: Professor Sachin Jayaswal – Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad

Melvin Drent receives Prins Bernhard fellowship
Published on Monday, 17 June 2019
LCL PhD student Melvin Drent has been awarded a “Prins Bernhard fellowship” for his research visit at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from September to December 2019.

Supply chain in the healthcare industry
Event date: Thursday, 20 June 2019
Hour: 16:45 18:15
Place: Limpertsberg Campus Bâtiment des Sciences Room BSC-E00-001
Speaker: Arie Moruanx, Johnson & Johnson

Educating to fight cyber-attacks
Published on Monday, 01 July 2019
For many years, resilience against cyber-attacks only concerned companies who operate critical infrastructure.

LCL Master cohort celebrates successful year
Published on Thursday, 04 July 2019
Students from the Master in Logistics and Supply Chain Management celebrated the successful completion of their studies on 27 June, presenting their research to professors, peers and LCL industry p...

MIT SCALE supply chain master's ranked #1 for 4th consecutive year
Published on Wednesday, 24 July 2019
Luxembourg Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management offers the MIT SCALE master programme.

Power purchase agreements & demand response for ind. power consumers
Published on Tuesday, 24 September 2019
The share of corporate renewable power is on the rise globally as more and more companies are looking for ways to fulfill their sustainability targets.

Welcome to the new LSCM students!
Published on Friday, 04 October 2019
High-level students have been recruited for the third cohort of the Master in Logistics and Supply Chain Management, with backgrounds in procurement, computer science, accounting, international bus...

Sarah Van der Auweraer, 1st postdoctoral researcher of the LCL
Published on Thursday, 10 October 2019
Sarah Van der Auweraer joined the Luxembourg Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management (LCL) as a full-time postdoctoral researcher in October 2019.

International student fair Paris
Event date: Saturday, 12 October 2019
Hour: 9:30 17:30
Place: Cité internationale universitaire de Paris

Value of Reverse Factoring in Multi-stage Supply Chains
Event date: Wednesday, 16 October 2019
Hour: 12:30 13:30
Place: Building B Room E01 B14
Speaker: Fehmi Tanrisever, Bilkent University

Master student fair Cologne
Event date: Saturday, 09 November 2019
Hour: 10:00 17:00
Place: Palladium Köln

Open position: Ass. Professor in Logistics & Supply Chain Management
Published on Monday, 11 November 2019
The Faculty of Law, Economics, and Finance (FDEF) of the University of Luxembourg has an opening for an:

Metal additive manufacturing - Roundtable
Event date: Wednesday, 13 November 2019
Hour: 16:00 18:00
Place: Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust Nancy Metz room
Speaker: Arvid Eirich, Mobility goes Additive & Anne Lange, LCL

Multi-stage stochastic optimisation in operations management
Published on Friday, 15 November 2019
Bonn Kleiford Seranilla joined the Luxembourg Center for Logistics and Supply Chain Management (LCL) as a full-time PhD student in October 2019.

LCL partner of the Industrial Excellence Award 2020
Published on Tuesday, 19 November 2019
The Luxembourg Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management (LCL) joins as 13th academic partner the renowned industry competition Industrial Excellence Award 2020.

Successful metal additive manufacturing roundtable
Published on Friday, 22 November 2019
The Luxembourg Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management (LCL) hosted its recent roundtable event on metal additive manufacturing (AM) on November 13, 2019.

Transportation network users’ behavior under new sharing systems
Published on Monday, 25 November 2019
Nadia Tahmasbi joined the Luxembourg Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management (LCL) as a full-time PhD student in October 2019.

For the progressive governance of sustainable maritime transport
Published on Friday, 29 November 2019
The LCL has joined The Green Shipping Project, a consortium funded by Canada's Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

Opening: Outreach Officer / Partnership Developer (m/f)
Published on Friday, 13 December 2019
The Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance is seeking to appoint for its Luxembourg Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management (LCL) an Outreach Officer / Partnership Developer.

Scheduling a crane in a warehouse - the 2n-tour assumption. Research Seminar
Event date: Thursday, 09 January 2020
Hour: 10:30 12:00
Place: Building B Room E01 B17
Speaker: Lukas Polten, TU Darmstadt

Lunchseminar in Economics: Multiproduct Inventory Planning Considering Consumers Choices and Substitution Effects

Event date: Wednesday, 22 January 2020

Hour: 13:00 14:00

Place: Université du Luxembourg, Campus Kirchberg, 29, avenue JF Kennedy L-1359 Luxembourg, Building JFK, ground floor, room Nancy-Metz

Speaker: Sandra Transchel, Hühne Logistic University, Hambourg, Germany

Supply Chain Master Programme Admission Webinar
Event date: Thursday, 23 January 2020
Hour: 16:00 17:00
Speaker: MIT SCALE network admissions teams

LSCM master student wins “Shark Tank” Competition at MIT
Published on Monday, 27 January 2020
Three exciting weeks on the Supply Chain Conference at the MIT campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Bankruptcy protection in airline markets impacting pricing?
Published on Monday, 27 January 2020
A paper on flight ticket pricing, co-authored by Prof. Benny Mantin, has been published in “Transportation Research Part A, General” journal.

Awarded LSCM students at MIT Research Expo
Published on Thursday, 30 January 2020
The IAP, a three-week study period at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a milestone in the curriculum of the Master in Logistics and Supply Chain Management offered by the Luxembou...

Coronavirus: which impact on global supply chains?
Published on Tuesday, 11 February 2020
Prof. Benny Mantin, Director of the Luxembourg Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management, was interviewed by Paperjam to give insights about the Coronavirus crisis from a supply chain perspe...

eXplore Conference: Data driven supply chains
Event date: Tuesday, 10 March 2020
Hour: 9:30 16:30
Place: Chambre des métiers du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg
Speaker: Alexis Bateman, Robert Boute, Mario Grotz, Bram Kranenburg, Katalin Ligeti, Sarah Van der Auweraer