Corporate Research Projects

I have supervised a variety of Projects in the area of Business Intelligence, mainly Data Mining and Business Forecasting, with corporate partners to further a multilateral and interdisciplinary exchange of research results .  Some of our current & recent partners:

Corporate Research at Lancaster University

	2007	BEIERSDORF AG, HAMBURG, GERMANY Providing a 3 custom made, in-house training courses for international Demand Planning teams of 28 forecasters, teaching statistical forecasting methods, systems and organisation using SAP’s Advanced Planner and Optimiser (APO), Demand Planning module (DP).
	2006	ITV PLC, LONDON, UK Forecasting of TV viewership in the UK using Neural Networks. Pilot study conducted to develop suitable models for forecasting of TV ratings in order to enhance advertising pricing decisions.
	02/2006-03/2006	TESCO PLC, CHESHUNT Pilot study on the impact of calendar events on forecasting distribution centre deliveries with statistical and neural network models for human resource scheduling at warehouses in the UK (with Lancaster PhD student Xi Chen).
	2006	BEIERSDORF AG, HAMBURG, GERMANY Providing a custom made, in-house training course for international Demand Planning team of 18 forecasters, teaching statistical forecasting methods, systems and organisation using SAP’s Advanced Planner and Optimiser (APO), Demand Planning module (DP).
	12/2005	CODELCO SA, SANTIAGO, CHILE Workshop on using neural networks to forecast copper and commodity prices for the world’s largest produced of copper.
	2005	05/2006 TESCO PLC, CHESHUNT, UK Analysis of the impact of weather variables for forecasting retail store demand of fresh products, providing statistical analysis and in-house training. Incld. pilot study on the analysis of the impact of weather and event variables on retail sales for forecasting (in addition to two MScOR master student project providing funding for department)
	2005	TESCO PLC, CHESHUNT In-house forecasting course & ForecastPro software training for hierarchical distribution centre sales forecasting.
		BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE LAB, HAMBURG, GERMANY Attracted 12 months funding of full-time Research Assistant at Lancaster University for the development of a neural network software simulator for large scale empirical forecasting experiments.

Corporate Research at Hamburg University

	2002-2004	IN-HOUSE TRAINING ON BUSINESS FORECASTING WITH SAP APO-DP Beiersdorf AG, Germany & Netherlands - Initiation, acquisition and supervision of workshop series for leading international consumer products manufacturer, teaching time-series analysis, decomposition, method selection, parameterisation and evaluation to Sales Forecast Team for application in the SAP-APO Demand Planner. Consultant on internal blueprint for organisational implementation of forecasting processes and exception reporting for international roll-out.
	2003-2004	DESIGN OF FORECASTING & INVENTORY DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM Tobaccoland, Germany - Design of forecasting support system for the world’s largest operator of vending machines, analysing various forecasting methods for implementation in handheld terminals.
	2003 - 2004	DATA MINING FOR CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT Gruner & Jahr, Germany - Acquisition and project leader in team of 3 faculty members for data mining project with Germany’s leading publishing house, using various neural network methods & support vector machines for cross selling in competition to SPSS Clementine.
	04-06 / 2001	PROCESS ANALYSIS FOR STANDARD SOFTWARE SELECTION ALD Autoleasing Deutschland AG, Hamburg – Detailed process analysis and eEPK process modelling using ARIS process modeller.
	01-06 / 2000	PROCESS ANALYSIS IN RETAIL & WHOLESALE LOGISTICS NETWORK Hungarotabak-tobaccoland Rt., Budapest, Hungary - Acquisition and project leader in team of 5 for process analysis & redesign of supply logistics for Hungarian market-leader in tobacco wholesale and retail