Alexander Pflaum

Director Center for Applied Research on Supply Chain Services SCS at Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

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Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

Professor Alexander Pflaum is an expert on the use of information and communication technologies in value creation processes and uses his knowledge to forge links between the worlds of technology and management. After graduating from his degree in electrical engineering, he went on to complete a doctorate on the topic of “RFID and Supply Chain Management” at the former Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg.

Pflaum has been working at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS and its Center for Applied Research on Supply Chain Services for over 20 years in a wide range of positions, including as director of the Center for Intelligent Objects ZIO, the Department of Technology and Supply Chain Management, and the Research Group Business Models Bamberg, which studies the development of business models in the digital world and helps companies implement these models into their everyday business activities. Since October 2011, he has also held the Chair of Business Administration, with special emphasis on Supply Chain Management, at the University of Bamberg. He is a member of Bundesverband für Logistik BVL e. V. and the German Association of University Professors and Lecturers (DHV) and is committed to forging links between science and industry, including through relevant doctoral theses. For example, he supervised the doctoral research of Helena Preiss on “Service Engineering in der Logistik – Die systematische Entwicklung von AIDC-technologiebasierten Mehrwertdienstleistungen” (Service Engineering in the Logistics Sector – the Systematic Development of AIDC Technology-based Value-Added Services), for which she received the DB Schenker Award.

In May 2016, Pflaum was appointed as the new director of the Center for Applied Research on Supply Chain Services SCS, which has locations in Nuremberg and Bamberg and whose vision is to use data to generate success and added value for companies.

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