Valentin Sommer

Entrepreneurship & Business Skills & Project Management .Responsible for all activities with regard to the trading and manufacturing of noble distillates: Research & Development, Product Design, Corporate Design, Marketing, Production, Storing, Distribution.

People Management & Project Management in SCM & Teaching .Guidance and supervision of new research employees and student assistants, including regular feedbacks. .Guidance and supervision of more than 20 projects each with 4-5 interdisciplinary educated students and more than 15 theses regularly in cooperation with industry. .Responsible for live-programming tutorials (~30 students) focusing on the implementation of mathematical optimization and forecast models.

Project Support in Financial Risk Management .Support of senior management in listing financial risk management related regulatories, in identifying the status quo of the current risk management and in developing a new risk management framework considering all regulatories.

Project Management in Supply Chain Design .Responsible for the identification of cost saving potentials in various delivery networks applying mathematical optimization. Independent data gathering, analyzing and preparation of presentations for decision makers. .Responsible for presenting results and derived recommendations to decision makers (head of sales of Eastern Europe, country heads, head of logistics department).

Project Management in Inventory Management, in Warehouse Excellence, Project Support in Supply Chain Risk Management .Responsible for the implementation of a mathematical model to decide on spare parts’ safety stocks. Independent data processing, analyzing and preparation of presentations for decision makers. .Development of a decision tree to decide on sourcing strategies for spare parts. .Support of top-management in listing, prioritizing and classifying supply chain related risks.

Teaching in Production and Logistics .Responsible for preparing and holding weekly calculation tutorials (~150 students) for the purpose of teaching, e.g. strategic network design, inventory management, supply management, warehousing strategies.

Vorpraktikum als Einschreibungsvoraussetzung: Einblicke in die Baubranche als Bauhelfer

Project Management in Sustainable Supply Chain Design .Successful steering of PhD project on the “design of recycling infrastructures for fiber based composites waste from rotor blades of wind power plants in the EU, considering economic and environmental evaluation criteria”.

Erasmus Aufenthalt: Schwerpunkt Sprachkurs, Optimization and Decision Making, Transportation and Organisation in Civil Engineering, Numerical Models in Civil Engineering

Focus areas: Supply Chain Management, Operations Research, Project Management in Construction Industry, Geotechnical Engineering

Erasmus Aufenthalt: Schwerpunkt Sprachkurs, Nachhaltiges Ingenieurwesen

Focus areas: General Business Administration, Project Management in Construction Industry, Geotechnical Engineering