Gerald Reiner

Full Pro­fessor

WU (Vi­enna Uni­versity of Eco­nom­ics and Busi­ness)
De­part­ment of In­form­a­tions Sys­tems and Op­er­a­tions
In­sti­tute for Pro­duc­tion Man­age­ment

Build­ing D2, En­trance C, 3rd Floor
Welthan­delsplatz 1, 1020 Vi­enna, Aus­tria

Email: ger­ald.rein­er­@wu.ac.at
Phone: +43-1-31336/6227
Fax: +43-1-31336/90 6227
Con­sulta­tion on Ap­point­ment

Back­ground

Dr. Ger­ald Reiner holds a Ma­gister De­gree, a doc­tor­ate de­gree and Hab­il­it­a­tion in Busi­ness Ad­min­is­tra­tion from the Vi­enna Uni­versity of Eco­nom­ics and Busi­ness (WU). Between 2007 and 2014 he was full pro­fessor in Pro­duc­tion Man­age­ment and Lo­gist­ics at the Uni­versity of Neuchatel (Switzer­land). Between 2014 and 2018 he was full pro­fessor in Pro­duc­tion Man­age­ment and Lo­gist­ics and head of the de­part­ment of Op­er­a­tions, En­ergy, and ‘En­vir­on­mental Man­age­ment at Uni­versit­aet Kla­gen­furt (Aus­tria). Fur­ther­more, he was vis­it­ing pro­fessor at the Aston Busi­ness School (UK), HEC Lausanne (Switzer­land), Uni­versity of Ber­gamo and Uni­versità Cat­tol­ica del Sacro Cuore in Milan (Italy). In 2018 he joined WU as full pro­fessor in Op­er­a­tions Man­age­ment at the in­sti­tute of Pro­duc­tion Man­age­ment at WU. Since 2008 he was co­ordin­ator, mem­ber of the steer­ing board, and pro­ject part­ner in in­ter­na­tional re­search pro­jects such as EU-­pro­ject “Keep­ing Jobs in EU” (http://www2.unine.ch/iene-kje) and EU/Ec­sel-­pro­ject “Power Semi­con­ductor and Elec­tron­ics Man­u­fac­tur­ing 4.0” (http://www.semi40.eu/).

Re­search In­terests

• In­dustry 4.0

• In­teg­rated ca­pa­city and in­vent­ory man­age­ment

• In­teg­rated sup­ply and de­mand man­age­ment

• Lead-­time re­duc­tion

• In­store op­er­a­tions for per­ish­able products

• Hu­man­it­arian lo­gist­ics op­er­a­tions (i.e., dis­aster cap­ab­il­ity man­age­ment, ca­pa­city man­age­ment and pur­chas­ing)

• Op­er­a­tions man­age­ment for base of the pyr­amid

• Cir­cu­lar sup­ply chains.

Re­search plat­forms:

FIDES WU

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Google Scholar

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Re­lated Pro­grammes

• Full-­time MSc in Sup­ply Chain Man­age­ment

• Busi­ness Ad­min­is­tra­tion In­tro­duc­tion and Spe­cial­iz­a­tion Pro­duc­tion Man­age­ment

Lec­tures at WU

• Cur­rent Lec­tures