Prof. Dr. Richard Gräẞler

“Expert in Operational Excellence in Operations & Supply Chain Management”
 

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Richard Gräßler has been Professor of Business Administration, specialising in Operations & Supply Chain Management and E-Commerce, at Hochschule Ruhr West since 1 March 2013. In this field, he combines classical production and logistics management with new, advanced approaches in international Operations & Supply Chain Management (OSCM), Lean Management (Lean Manufacturing/Lean Production), and E-Commerce/E-Business across the economic sectors of industry, logistics (including logistics services), and trade. He is particularly fascinated by the fact that these topics lie at the intersection of engineering, computer science, and business administration.

He discovered his passion for production and logistics management during his studies in Mechanical Engineering, specialising in Manufacturing Technology, at Ruhr University Bochum and RWTH Aachen University. In 1999, he earned his doctorate at the Chair of Production Systems, Machine Tool Laboratory, RWTH Aachen University. During his fifteen years of experience in renowned industrial companies, he worked as a manager and operations director responsible for order processing, supply chain management, product development, procurement, production, logistics, and IT systems. In this capacity, he gained experience with mechanical, electronic, and mechatronic products in the automotive industry, ship drives, and mechanical engineering. His key areas of expertise include Just-In-Sequence assembly, Lean Manufacturing, procurement, production and distribution logistics, production planning and control, inventory management, logistics controlling, physical logistics, ERP systems, E-Procurement, and E-Commerce.