Prof. Dr. Sandra Transchel

Professor of Supply Chain and Operations Management

Prof. Dr. Sandra Transchel

Professor of Supply Chain and Operations Management

Sandra Transchel is Professor for Supply Chain and Operations Management. From 2008 to 2011 Transchel was Assistant Professor for Supply Chain Management at the Pennsylvania State University, USA. In 2011 she was Visiting Assistant Professor at Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, USA. In 2008 Dr. Transchel received her PhD from the University of Mannheim, Germany and graduated in March 2004 with a Diploma degree in Business Mathematics from the Otto-von-Guericke University in Magdeburg, Germany. 

Transchel’s research interests are in the areas of supply chain management, inventory control, revenue management, and production scheduling. Her current research focuses on retail operations and supply chain management with the special interest in the integration of supply and demand management. Her research conducts theoretical research in inventories to study the relationship between replenishment policies, inventory levels, price strategies, perishability, and customers’ substitution behavior. She also studies optimal price and capacity management in Airline Alliances. Dr. Transchel’s research has appeared in numerous academic journals including Operations Research, European Journal of Operational Research, International Journal of Production Research, International Journal of Production Economics, and Business Research.

Up Close & Personal

„For me, the neat size and boutique-style university, specifically focusing on logistics and supply chain management, sets KLU apart.”
– Prof. Dr. Sandra Transchel

Academic Positions

since 2019

Full Professor of Logistics and Supply Chain Management at Kühne Logistics University, Hamburg, Germany

since 2011

Associate Professor of Logistics and Supply Chain Management at Kühne Logistics University, Hamburg, Germany

2014-2015

Dean of Programs at Kühne Logistics University, Hamburg, Germany

07/2011 - 12/2011

Visiting Assistant Professor of Business Administration at Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH, USA

11/2008 - 06/2011

Assistant Professor of Supply Chain Management at the Department of Supply Chain and Information Systems, Smeal College of Business at The Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, USA

10/2006 - 02/2007

Visiting Researcher at the Tuck School of Business, Department of Operations Management & Management Science (Prof. David F. Pyke) at Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH, USA

Education

11/2008

Doctoral Degree (Dr. rer. pol. equivalent to Ph.D.) in Business Administration at the University of Mannheim; Doctoral Thesis: Integrated supply and demand management in operations

03/2004

Diploma in Business Mathematics at the Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg; Diploma Thesis: “On the performance of linear replenishment policies of a production-inventory problem under random demand and yield”