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Finding a topic and supervisor for your final thesis is an essential part of your degree program. There are several ways to achieve this goal:

• Apply for an advertised topic at a chair. To make the process easier, please find the contact information, requirements for supervising a thesis and available topics of each chair of TUM School of Management by following the links below.
• Develop your own topic based on your interests and classes and proactively contact a potential supervisor from a chair in a related research area. For this purpose, please familiarize yourself with the requirements for supervision of the chair.
• Pitch a work-related topic offered by a company to a potential supervisor at a chair in a related research area.
• Plan to do your thesis abroad. 

Last, but not least, we recommend to check the provided information sheets in our Download Center and the module description of the final thesis. We wish you the best of luck!

Forschungsinstitut für Unternehmensführung, Logistik und Produktion TUM School of Management Technische Universität München

Final theses

Our research institute offers the supervision of Bachelor’s and Master’s theses on the topics listed below, as well as some of our own topics in cooperation with companies.

Application

The following application documents should be sent by e-mail to the e-mail address stated in the advertisement or to [email protected] :

• Transcript of records
• Curriculum vitae

Please understand that we only supervise selected theses due to limited capacities at the research institute. If no supervisor has responded to your application within two weeks, we will unfortunately not be able to supervise your thesis. Please refrain from contacting the secretariat of the Research Institute by telephone!

Guidelines, deadlines and formal requirements

The General Academic and Examination Regulations Bachelor’s and Master’s degree programs at the Technical University of Munich as well as the subject examination and study regulations of your respective degree program apply.

Please note the information on theses from the TUM School of Management regarding deadlines and formal requirements. These can be found at: http://www.wi.tum.de/programs/downloads/.

Citation, scope and other guidelines for the design of the thesis can be found here: Formvorschriften für Abschlussarbeiten . Please discuss any deviations from this with your supervisor.

The TUM University Library provides information on citation methods at:  https://www.ub.tum.de/zitierleitfaden .

Registration and submission

After consultation with your supervisor, please complete the relevant registration forms. After confirmation by the student, the supervisor registers the thesis with degree management.

To submit your application, please note the following steps as well as our information sheet in the Download Center on the TUM School of Management website ( https://www.mgt.tum.de/download-center ).

• Signature in the sworn declaration/declaration of authorship
• Completed form Permission to View My Final Thesis
• The subject of the email should be: Thesis submission name/matriculation number: xxxxxx. Students are free to choose the file names for the thesis and all other documents.
• Grade Management is responsible for forwarding the work to the supervisor. Students do not have to do anything else here.
• Students send all other additional files (codes, Excel lists, etc.) directly to the supervisor or discuss with the supervisor how these files should be submitted.
• If the supervisor requires printed copies of the thesis, students should submit these directly to the chair.

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• Professorship of Business Analytics and Intelligent Systems
• TUM School of Management
• Technical University of Munich

Bachelor Thesis

You are very welcome to write your bachelor thesis with us. We always have a collection of open topics available but also encourage students to propose own topics, as long as these relate to our research interests. Please see the details below if you want to apply.

Requirements:

We are looking for students who have a particular interest in Operations & Supply Chain Management (OSCM) and participated in several lectures and seminars within this field. You should possess fundamental mathematical and technical knowledge as well as the modeling and programming skills required to tackle advanced topics in OSCM.

Application:

If you are interested in doing your Bachelor’s Thesis with us, please send an e-mail to [email protected]  with the following information:

• Curriculum Vitae (incl. finished projects, programming skills/references)
• Transcript of records (Bachelor)
• Own topic: write a short topic description including a motivation, a description of the research gap, and a possible solution approach.
• General interest: write a motivation letter that outlines your interests and a favored research field.
• List of relevant courses attended
• Preferred time frame (earliest possible start 4 weeks after application)

Theses can only be registered on the 1 st of a month and the students need to send their documents for application at least one month in advance.

Guidelines:

Guidelines for how to write a thesis are part of our LaTeX template. We would advise you to use LaTeX for your writings for which we can provide the most support.

We ask you to meet with your supervisor on a regular basis to provide updates on your progress and ensure you receive valuable feedback. Your thesis will be graded according to the following criteria:

• Overall structure of your work
• Motivation of the research question and discussion of the current literature
• Selection and application of scientific methods
• Discussion of your results and conclusions
• Code quality and documentation

Registration at TUM School of Management:

Once you finalized the topic with your supervisor, you will be officially registered through the TUM-SoM Portal. You will receive an email to confirm the registration - please make sure to do so as soon as possible.

Open Topics

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• n.A.: Pricing Externalities in Online Resource Allocations. Bachelor thesis, 2024 more… Full text (mediaTUM)

Completed Theses

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Final theses

Prerequisites.

We preferably accept students with a major in Finance and Accounting (seminars and/or lectures) as well as former project study participants.

Furthermore, the student has to make sure to fulfil all necessary requirements of TUM (e.g. enough credits) to commence the thesis. If the number of applications exceeds the capacity of our chair, the selection of students will be based on grades (in total and grades in our lectures and seminars), the student’s field of interest and the current term of the student.

Application

The applications for a thesis under the supervision of our chair are collected four times a year. To sucessfuly apply, you need to hand-in your application exclusively via our official thesis application form that can be accessed two weeks before the respective application deadlines under the following link:

EF Thesis Application Form

The following documents that need to be included in your thesis application via our form should be named accordingly with "Lastname_Firstname_Documentname":

• Transcript of Records (ToR)
• Curriculum vitae (CV)
• Exposé (for students applying with their own topics)

Please note that the access to the form is restricted outside of the application window (of two weeks before the application deadlines). Also, note that we cannot accept applications that are not correctly submitted over our official thesis application form or that are incomplete .

The following table gives an overview of relevant deadlines :

Regarding the choice of your topic there are two options:

1 . You apply for a specific research topic related to ongoing research projects at the chair that are listed on the following page: Research topics .

2 . You apply with your own research topic that is related to our research interest in Entrepreneurial Finance. In this case, we ask you to provide a short exposé where you should present your topic and motivation. To be specific, the research proposal should address the following four areas on a two-page proposal:

(1) A concise formulation of your research question and subsequently derived hypothesis.

(2) A detailed description of the methodological approach (quantitative/qualitative) to answer the research question.

(3) A concrete data acquisition strategy that addresses the particularities of private market data. You have to specify the databases employed and planned data enrichment or merging steps.

(4) A brief synthesis of the line research your thesis builds upon.

Please note that submitting a proposal does not entitle you to write your thesis at the Chair of Entrepreneurial Finance. The submission will be reviewed and could be rejected at any time without cause. 

According to the examination regulations of the grade management office of our faculty, the process time (from the date of registration of your thesis) is as follows:

• Master thesis (TUM-BWL/TUM-WIN/TUM-NAWI/TUM-WITEC/MBA/EMBA):  six months
• Bachelor thesis:  three months

After a notification of acceptance, the applicant needs to contact their respective supervisor. The topic might be modified, if necessary, in consultation with the supervisor; however, the thesis is to be registered at the examination office typically within four weeks.

For a Bachelor thesis,  students should meet their supervisor no more than three times:

• Specification of the topic
• Meeting to discuss the structure of the paper
• Optional meeting for further questions

For a Master thesis, students should meet their supervisor appr. four times:

• Two to three meetings to discuss the structure of the paper

Submission and Thesis defense

Please refer to the formal submission requirements of your faculty's grademanagement office. In general, theses are to be handed in digitally to your supervisor/ TUM MGT grade management office typically via email. One MS Word file and one PDF file must be submitted and named: “Thesis_StudentName_ThesisTitle_DateSubmitted”.   Additional data on which the thesis is based on should be made available to your supervisor if requested.

For MBA master-theses, an oral thesis defense is required after submission. Please plan ahead of time (minimum 4 weeks before planned defense) to schedule an appointment with your supervisor.

For all other theses, an oral presentation is not mandatory but can be requested by the supervisor.

Contact Team

For further information regarding final theses, please exclusively contact our thesis administration team under the following email address:  [email protected]

Hints for Scientific Writing

A final thesis has to adhere to certain scientific standards. Guidelines concerning the thesis itself (formal requirements, layout, etc.) can be found here.

Bachelor and Master thesis

In this section, you find potential topics for a bachelor and master thesis based on the research topics, we are working on at the Chair for Supply and Value Chain Management. We encourage students to write their thesis in English language. Research journals are majorly published in English, and companies today expect their employees to speak English fluently.

We preferably accept students with a significant number of lectures in supply and value chain management and related fields, as well as former participants of the advanced seminar of our chair. Nevertheless, we are always happy to receive excellent applications from students with other focus areas/ qualifications that relate to our field. The number of available topics for theses is limited by the capacity of the chair. If the number of applications is exceeding the capacity of the chair, theses will be allocated according to your previous seminars, elective course, and personal interests.

Currently tendered topics by the chair

Here, you find specific topics tendered by the chair at the moment. If you are interested, please use the “Apply now” button above.

Bachelor theses

Currently, there are no tendered topics from the chair. Please apply with an own topic suggestion.

Master theses

Topic: Markdown optimization for fresh categories (Kaufland)

For a retailer, ordering the right quantity of products is a crucial task on a daily level – too much quantity leads to food waste whereas too little leads to out – of – stock situations, lost sales, and dissatisfied customers. Excess stocks are particularly c ritical in fresh categories since the items must be sold off within a very short time due to their short best – before date. In order to sell the items before they perish (e.g., before reaching the best before date), targeted discounts are given by the employees in the stores. If a price discount i s too high, the remaining stock may be salvaged quickly, and the margin losses may be too high. On the other side, if the price discounts are too low, the risk of food waste increases.

The aim of t his master’s thesis is to develop an approach for profit – optimized markdown pricing in fresh categories (bakery, dairy and/ or counter) on a market – specific and item – specific level, with the goal to minimize the total write – offs and waste (losses from pric e reduction and remaining stock).

For a more detailed description, please follow this link: PDF: Markdown optimization for fresh categories

The tasks include:

• Complete a structured literature review about markdown policies for overstocks
• Structurally derive decision problem and formalize it as a stochastic – dynamic optimization model
• Implement the decision problem as a simulation model (e.g., in Python or AnyLogic)
• Collect data from Ka ufland and prepare it for the application
• Complete numerical studies to generate some managerial insights
• Develop plan for potential implementation of the tool at Kaufland

A real – world dataset will be provided

Topic: Food waste in the hospitality and food service sector

Catering for a large number of people, as is the case in canteens, at events, or in hotels, for example, poses major challenges for service providers. Consumers require an attractive offer of dishes, while their preferences and hunger are hardly known. At the same time, the provider must prevent empty buffets and sold-out meals at all costs, a setting that practically provokes food waste. We want to approach this problem from the providers’ point of view, analyze the current way of planning the quantities and meals in facilities such as hotels, canteens, mass catering, etc. and find strategies for improvement.

The Master thesis should cover the following tasks:

• Literature overview of planning approaches in this area (both empirical and modeling-based)
• Development of an interview guide based on open research questions appearing from the literature review (in coordination with the supervisor)
• Finding and contacting suitable interviewees
• Conducting the interviews and analysis of the gathered information via qualitative content analysis
• Derivation of improvement measures

Topic: The Stochastic Patient-to-Bed Assignment Problem

Patients who are admitted to a hospital as inpatients must be assigned a bed while respecting certain constraints. For instance, gender-mixed rooms are usually to be avoided, and it is desirable to assign patients of similar age to a room since this has been shown to increase patient satisfaction. Transfers of a patient to a different room during their stay are possible but should be minimized in order to reduce work for the nurses and stress for the patients. The goal of the master’s thesis is to go beyond a rolling horizon approach by formulating the patient-to-bed assignment problem with stochastic arrivals and lengths of stay of patients using Markov decision processes (MDPs).

For a more detailed description, please follow this link: PDF: The Stochastic Patient-to-Bed Assignment Problem

The specific tasks to be performed include:

• Generate explicit distributions and test instances from the real data set
• Set up an automated instance generator
• Formulate an MDP for the case with a stochastic length of stay
• Formulate an MDP for the case where both length of stay and patient arrivals are stochastic

Inspiration for own topic suggestion

Food retail Retail Logistics

• Last mile logistics in omnichannel retail
• Multi depot online order fulfillment

Assortment Planning

• Optimizing assortments for omni-channel retailers and packaging-free food stores
• Planning problems in omnichannel distribution

Waste management

• Planning approaches to prevent food waste before it actually emerges
• Inventory management and assortment strategies in food retail market and their effects on the amount of food waste

Last mile delivery

• Last mile delivery routing
• Vehicle assignment with machine learning methods

Hospital operations

Warehouse automation

• Automated and robotized warehousing systems
• Behavioral issues and human factors in supply chain management – transportation and warehousing

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Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.)

Management and Technology (am Campus Heilbronn)

The Bachelor’s program in Management and Technology (TUM-BWL) combines management courses (70%) with a specialization in technology focusing on Digital Technologies (30%).

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• 6 Semesters (Full Time)

Winter semester: 15.05. – 15.07.

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• Winter Semester (October)
• Student Fees: 102.00 €

Information on Degree Program

Program profile.

We created the Bachelor in Management & Technology with the new Digital Technologies specialization with a particular type of candidate in mind. We are looking for highly motivated high-school graduates who are interested in business administration and, at the same time, want to acquire a basic knowledge of the natural sciences and engineering – with a special focus on digital technology. Graduates of the program will be ideally qualified for a career that combines business management with technical skills, particularly in the area of digital technology.

For a comprehensive description of the program, please refer to the degree program documentation:

• Degree program documentation for the bachelor's program in Management and Technology (PDF, German)  

Upon completion of this program our graduates will

• have a sound understanding of the link between Management and Digital Technology.
• have knowledge of business fundamentals.
• be effective communicators of business topics.
• be responsible decision makers.
• be managers in a global world.

After successful completion of the Bachelor’s degree program, you will be able to take over a leading position in an international acting company at the interface of management & technology. As such, you will be capable of connecting technological issues with economical aspects.

Program structure

• Basics in Economics, Law, Management, Mathematics and Natural Sciences
• Specialisation in Technology: Digital Technologies
• Electives in Management and/or Technology
• International Experience and Communication Skills
• Project Studies focusing on practical or research issues
• Bachelor's thesis

In their first four semesters, students will acquire basic knowledge in management (54 ECTS), economics (12 ECTS), law (12 ECTS), and mathematics and natural sciences (12 ECTS). Students can specialize in Digital Technologies (42 ECTS). They will spend their third semester at TUM Campus Garching. Practical experience is ensured through project studies in the fourth or fifth semester (12 ECTS). In the upper semesters, students will have the opportunity to deepen their knowledge or specialize in their desired areas of management or technology by choosing electives (18 ECTS), to improve their communication skills (3 ECTS), and to go abroad in order to gain practical international experience (3 ECTS). Through the mobility window, we give our students the possibility to complete a semester abroad at one of our partner universities. The program will be completed by a written Bachelor's thesis in the sixth semester (12 ECTS).

In the area of management, you can select electives in:

Management in Family Businesses Management in Digital Transformation

• Overview degree program structure (PDF 2 MB)
• Module Catolog: Description of program content

Language of instruction

The language of instruction for this program is English. Applicants don´t need to provide a language proficiency certificate. Proof of language skills is provided via the aptitude assessment.

If applicants are unable to provide evidence of half-year grades in English for the last two years of secondary school, they will be invited to an admission interview, which will be conducted in English.

Depending on the program and your individual background, it may be necessary for you to keep working on your language skills during your studies. Be sure to take a look at the services of our Language Center.

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Application and Admission

Application process.

Admission requirements and the application procedure vary depending on the type of higher education entrance qualification you hold.

During the application period, you must apply through the TUMonline application portal and upload your application documents.

If you receive an offer of admission, you will additionally have to submit individual documents as notarized hardcopies by post to be enrolled .

Generally, applicants with an international higher education entrance qualification must have their documents reviewed in advance through uni-assist .

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• Important information about your application from the TUM school or department

Documents required for the online application

• Higher Education Entrance Qualification
• Letter of Motivation
• Complete and Current Résumé
• Preliminary Documentation (VPD) by uni-assist - for international applicants only

We may require additional documents depending on your educational background and your country of origin . Complete the online application to receive a comprehensive list of the required documents.

Documents required for enrollment

• Application for Enrollment (signed)
• Higher Education Entrance Qualification (certified copy)
• Most Current Photo (as for ID)
• Digital notification of your health insurance status from a German public health insurance provider (requested by applicant)

We may require additional documents depending on the type of educational background you earned and your country of origin . After accepting an offer of admission in TUMonline, you will receive a list of documents you must submit to TUM in hardcopy for enrollment.

Application deadlines

Application period for the winter semester: 15.05. – 15.07.

Information about applying for a higher subject semester

During the application period, you must apply through the TUMonline application portal and upload your application documents. Please be aware that we can only process your application if you upload all required documents within the application period .

We will review your application as soon as it is complete. Please check your TUMonline account regularly, to see if we have any queries to your documents or if you have to amend one or more documents.

After receiving admission, you will see in TUMonline which documents you have to submit for enrollment , and in which form. Please note that you always have to send the signed application for enrollment and all notarized hardcopies by post .

We recommend that you submit the documents for enrollment as soon as possible after receiving admission. If individual documents are not available by then, you can submit them up to 5 weeks after the start of the lecture period. You will, however, only be enrolled once we have received all documents .

You can check the status of your application at any time in your TUMonline account .

Admission process

Selection takes place through an aptitude assessment procedure. Aptitude assessment is a two-part procedure evaluating your ability to successfully manage the particular qualitative requirements of the Bachelor’s program.

In the first stage, your overall secondary school grades, your grades in subject-specific courses, and any relevant practical experience or additional qualifications will be evaluated using a point system. Depending on the amount of points accumulated , applicants are either immediately admitted or invited to an admission interview .

We assess your application considering your final Abitur grade (or GPA) and your four individual half-year grades (Halbjahresnoten) in English, Mathematics and an Advanced Natural Science. For applicants who do not provide the individual grades in the mentioned subjects, we will assess your application considering the final grade (GPA) of your university entrance qualification and your performance in the admission interview.

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