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Fakultät für Lebenswissenschaften: Lebensmittel, Ernährung und Gesundheit
Food Supply Chain Management

Akademischer Werdegang
Christian Fikar ist Professor für Food Supply Chain Management an der Fakultät für Lebenswissenschaften: Lebensmittel, Ernährung und Gesundheit am Campus in Kulmbach. Er beschäftigt sich in seiner Forschung mit betriebswirtschaftlichen Fragestellungen in Lebensmittelwertschöpfungsketten, vor allem in Bezug auf zeitkritische Logistikprozesse und der Bereitstellung von computerbasierter Entscheidungsunterstützung.

Er hat Supply Chain Management an der Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien studiert und anschließend an der Universität für Bodenkultur Wien promoviert und habilitiert. Seine wissenschaftliche Arbeit führte er anschließend an der Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien weiter bevor er den Ruf an die Universität Bayreuth annahm. Während seines Studiums und seiner Forschungstätigkeiten absolvierte er mehrere Aufenthalte im Ausland, vor allem in den USA, Taiwan, Spanien und Finnland.

Fakultät für Lebenswissenschaften: Lebensmittel, Ernährung und Gesundheit
Food Supply Chain Management

Schwerpunkte in Lehre und Forschung
Die methodischen Lehr- und Forschungsschwerpunkte liegen im Bereich Operations Research, Operations Management und Business Analytics mit dem Ziel, Resilienz, Nachhaltigkeit und Effizienz von Lebensmittelwertschöpfungsketten zu steigern. So werden bspw. die Auswirkungen unterschiedlicher Logistikentscheidungen im Lebensmittelversandhandel erforscht. Dies ermöglicht einerseits effizientere Prozesse und kann anderseits zu einer Reduktion von Lebensmittelabfällen beitragen. Der Fokus liegt hierbei vor allem auf Short Food Supply Chains, daher regionale Lieferketten mit dem Ziel diese Netzwerke in Oberfranken zu analysieren und durch die Lehre und Forschung nachhaltig zu fördern.

Fakultät für Lebenswissenschaften: Lebensmittel, Ernährung und Gesundheit
Food Supply Chain Management

Publikationen

2025

Christian Fikar, Christine Mendoza Pardo, Suad Saliju: Optimizing local food supply chain operations : Insights from theory and practice. - (Vortrag), Veranstaltung: 5th Conference on Sustainable Supply Chains, 4.-5. Juli 2025, Graz, Österreich.

Adhurim Imeri, Gerald Reiner, Christian Fikar: Unveiling Shelf-Life and Consumer Behavior Dynamics in Perishable Inventory Planning. - (Vortrag), Veranstaltung: 11th IFAC Conference on Manufacturing Modelling, Management and Control (IFAC MIM 2025), 30.06. - 03.07.2025, Trondheim.

Kris Braekers, Christian Fikar, I. Malheiros, R. Ramalho, A. Subramanian: The multi-store vehicle routing problem with time windows : integrating store selection and delivery decisions in e-fulfilment. - (Vortrag), Veranstaltung: VeRoLog 2025 - EURO Working Group on Vehicle Routing and Logistics Optimization, 16-19. Jun 2025, Trento, Italien.

Christian Fikar: Empowering local food supply chains : Insights from theory and practice. - (Vortrag), Veranstaltung: WU Prodman Lecture Series, 10.06.2025, Vienna, Austria.

Christian Fikar: Modelling food quality aspects in vehicle routing procedures. - (Vortrag), Veranstaltung: Research Seminar at the Research Group Logistics, Hasselt University, 27.05.2025, Hasselt, Belgium.

Christian Fikar: Computergestützte Entscheidungsunterstützung zur Reduzierung von Lebensmittelqualitätsverlusten innerhalb von Supply Chain Prozessen. - (Vortrag), Veranstaltung: Gemeinsam gegen Lebensmittelabfälle – Dialog für eine neue Wertschätzungskette, 21.05.2025, Berlin, Deutschland.

Florian Cramer, Christian Fikar: Modeling sustainable crowd logistics delivery networks : A scoping systems thinking review. In: Sustainability Analytics and Modeling, 5 (2025). - 100039.
doi:10.1016/j.samod.2025.100039

Philipp Loacker, Siegfried Pöchtrager, Christian Fikar, Wolfgang Grenzfurtner: Process mining-enhanced quality management in food processing industries. In: International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management, 74 (2025). - S. 1326-1346.
doi:10.1108/IJPPM-06-2024-0377

Philipp Loacker, Siegfried Pöchtrager, Christian Fikar, Wolfgang Grenzfurtner: Process mining-enhanced quality management in food processing industries. In: International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management, 74 (2025). - S. 1326-1346.
doi:10.1108/IJPPM-06-2024-0377

Florian Cramer, Christian Fikar, Gerald Reiner: Responsiveness-related trade-offs for sustainable operations in perishable goods supply chains. In: International Journal of Production Research, (2025). - S. 1-26.
doi:10.1080/00207543.2025.2596963

Anis Dzankovic, Christian Fikar, Bernd Müller: Determinants of Productivity and Economic Performance of Smallholder Tomato Farmers in Ethiopia : A Comparative Gross Margin Analysis. In: International Journal of Agriculture and Natural Resources, 52 (2025). - S. 115-137.
doi:10.7764/ijanr.v52i3.90762

Philipp Loacker, Siegfried Pöchtrager, Christian Fikar: Discrete-event simulation to analyse the impacts of a reduced minimum order quantity in the food industry : proposing a shared-savings contract. In: Journal of Simulation, 19 (2025). - S. 367-380.
doi:10.1080/17477778.2024.2386440

Christine Mendoza Pardo, Christian Fikar: Entscheidungsunterstützung für regionale Lebensmittellogistik. In: H.O.R.I.Z.O.N.T.E - Das Innovations- und Technologiemagazin, (2025). - S. 43-45.
doi:10.15495/EPub_UBT_00008539

Christine Mendoza Pardo, Christian Fikar: Impact of digital logistics platforms to facilitate more regional food in the hospitality sector and communal catering. In: The International Journal of Logistics Management, 36 (2025). - S. 413-432.
doi:10.1108/IJLM-03-2024-0150

2024

Florian Cramer, Christian Fikar: Providing decision support for mobile stores : An evaluation of location choice policies. - (Vortrag), Veranstaltung: 7th Annual Meeting of the EURO Working Group on Retail Operations, 18.09.2024 - 20.09.2024, Vienna, Austria.

Florian Cramer, Christian Fikar: Optimizing Location Choices for Mobile Stores : Policies for Location Selection. - (Vortrag), Veranstaltung: OR 2024 – International Conference on Operations Research 2024, 03.-06. September 2024, München.

Christine Mendoza Pardo, Christian Fikar: The Role of Digital Logistics Platforms for Regional Food Supply : A System Dynamics Approach. - (Vortrag), Veranstaltung: OR 2024 – International Conference on Operations Research 2024, 03.-06. September 2024, München.

Christine Mendoza Pardo, Christian Fikar: Facilitating System Dynamics to Analyze Digital Logistics Platforms for Regional Food Supply. - (Vortrag), Veranstaltung: 33rd European Conference on Operational Research, 30.06.-03.07.2024, Kopenhagen.

Florian Cramer, Christian Fikar: Decision support for product diffusion in retail : The impact of geospatial and temporal access. - (Vortrag), Veranstaltung: 33rd European Conference on Operational Research, 30.06.-03.07.2024, Kopenhagen.

Suad Saliju, Christian Fikar, Christine Mendoza Pardo, Claudia Paciarotti: Simulation Optimization-based Decision Support System to Enable More Local Food in the Gastronomy Sector. - (Vortrag), Veranstaltung: 33rd European Conference on Operational Research, 30.06.-03.07.2024, Kopenhagen.

Adhurim Imeri, Christian Fikar, Gerald Reiner: Depleting grocery stores through integrated operations and customer nudging management. - (speechpap), Veranstaltung: Twenty-third International Working Seminar on Production Economics, 14.-18. Feb. 2024, Innsbruck, Austria.

Florian Cramer, Christian Fikar: Investigating crowd logistics platform operations for local food distribution. In: International Journal of Retail & Distribution Management, 52 (2024). - S. 836-855.
doi:10.1108/IJRDM-10-2022-0400

2023

Florian Cramer, Christian Fikar: Simulation optimization to investigate the potential of mobile food hubs and crowd logistics to facilitate product adoption in short food supply chain. - (Vortrag), Veranstaltung: OR 2023 - International Conference on Operations Research 2023, 29.08. - 01.09.23, Hamburg, Germany.

Suad Saliju, Christian Fikar: Simulation Optimization to Evaluate the Effects of Horizontal Cooperation on the Resilience of Short Food Supply Chains. - (Vortrag), Veranstaltung: OR 2023 - International Conference on Operations Research 2023, 29.08. - 01.09.23, Hamburg, Germany.

Florian Cramer, Christian Fikar: Understanding The Status Quo of Crowd Logistics System Robustness. - (Vortrag), Veranstaltung: POMS International Conference 2023, 18.07.2023-20.07.2023, Paris.

Wolfgang Grenzfurtner, Susanne Baldermann, Felicitas-Michele Litzel, Maria Lanvermann, Celine Schlüßler, Christian Fikar: Analysing food loss in a regional vegetable supply chain from an operation management perspective. - (Paper), Veranstaltung: 30th EurOMA Conference : “A Systems Lens on Operations”, 01.-06. July 2023, Leuven.

Christian Fikar: Enabling sustainable logistics operations to provide more local food in restaurants. - (Vortrag), Veranstaltung: 4th Conference on Sustainable Supply Chains, 30.06. - 01.07.2023, Hagen.

Christian Fikar, Björn Johansson, Karsten Beyer, Marvin Auf der Landwehr: Perishables. In: Sigrid Wenzel, Markus Rabe, Steffen Strassburger, Christoph von Viebahn (Hrsg.): Energy-Related Material Flow Simulation in Production and Logistics. - Cham, Schweiz : Springer, 2023. - S. 141-177.
doi:10.1007/978-3-031-34218-9_6

2022

Adhurim Imeri, Kristina Petljak, Katija Vojvodic, Christian Fikar, Gerald Reiner: Grocery retail chain induced collaboration towards reducing food waste. - (Vortrag), Veranstaltung: 7th Colloquium on European Research in Retailing 2022: The New Age Of Retailing: Rethink, Reconnect, Revive, 08.-10. Sep. 2022, Zagreb, Kroatien.

Florian Cramer, Christian Fikar: Simulating the impact of occasional drivers on food distribution in alternative food networks. - (Vortrag), Veranstaltung: International Conference on Operations Research - OR 2022, 06.-09.09.2022, Karlsruhe, Germany.

Suad Saliju, Christian Fikar: Simulation Model to Assess the Impact of Demand Disruptions in Short Food Supply Chains. - (Vortrag), Veranstaltung: International Conference on Operations Research - OR 2022, 06.-09.09.2022, Karlsruhe, Germany.

Adhurim Imeri, Christian Fikar, Gerald Reiner: Investment in Food Waste Prevention : Modeling trade-offs under stochastic supply attributes and consumer in-store picking behavior. - (Vortrag), Veranstaltung: 21st International Symposium on Inventories (ISIR 2022), 22.-26. Aug. 2022, Budapest, Ungarn.

Florian Cramer, Christian Fikar: Sustainable Distribution in Alternative Food Networks : Evaluating the Potential of Crowd Logistics. - (Vortrag), Veranstaltung: 32nd EURO Conference, 03.-06. July 2022, Espoo, Finland.

Christian Fikar, Andreas Mild, Gerald Reiner, Martin Waitz: Agent-based decision support to integrate demand and shelf life-based inventory management in grocery operations. - (Vortrag), Veranstaltung: 32nd EURO Conference, 03.-06. July 2022, Espoo, Finland.

Wolfgang Grenzfurtner, Tina Bartelmeß, Constanze Betz, Christian Fikar: Health conditions of truck drivers and their impact on the food supply chain resilience. - (Paper), Veranstaltung: 29th EurOMA Conference : "Brilliance in resilience: operations and supply chain management’s role in achieving a sustainable future", 01.-06. July 2022, Berlin, Germany.

Suad Saliju, Christian Fikar: A Hybrid Simulation Model to Facilitate Resilience in Short Food Supply Chains. - (Vortrag), Veranstaltung: 32nd EURO Conference, 03.-06. July 2022, Espoo, Finland.

Christian Fikar: Operations research models for sustainable food deliveries. - (Vortrag), Veranstaltung: Lecture series of the Research Institute for Supply Chain Management (WU Vienna), 10.01.2022, Vienna, Austria.

Christian Fikar, Kris Braekers: Bi-objective optimization of e-grocery deliveries considering food quality losses. In: Computers & Industrial Engineering, 163 (2022). - 107848.
doi:10.1016/j.cie.2021.107848

Mohammadmehdi Hakimifar, Burcu Balcik, Christian Fikar, Vera Hemmelmayr, Tina Wakolbinger: Evaluation of field visit planning heuristics during rapid needs assessment in an uncertain post-disaster environment. In: Annals of Operations Research, 319 (2022). - S. 517-558.
doi:10.1007/s10479-021-04274-y

Yvonne Kummer, Christian Fikar, Johanna Burtscher, Martina Strobl, Reinhard Fuchs, Konrad J. Domig, Patrick Hirsch: Facilitating Resilience during an African Swine Fever Outbreak in the Austrian Pork Supply Chain through Hybrid Simulation Modelling. In: Agriculture, 12 (2022). - 352.
doi:10.3390/agriculture12030352

Claudia Paciarotti, Giovanni Mazzuto, Francesco Torregiani, Christian Fikar: Locally produced food for restaurants : a theoretical approach for the supply chain network design. In: International Journal of Retail & Distribution Management, 50 (2022). - S. 164-183.
doi:10.1108/ijrdm-10-2021-0477

Florian Cramer, Christian Fikar: Simulating the Viability of Crowd Logistics in Short Food Supply Chains. In: Felix Breitenecker, Christina Deatcu, Umut Durak, Andreas Körner, Thorsten Pawletta (Hrsg.): ASIM SST 2022 : Proceedings Kurzbeiträge. - Wien : ARGESIM, 2022. - S. 17-20.
doi:10.11128/arep.19

Magdalena Leithner, Christian Fikar: A simulation model to investigate impacts of facilitating quality data within organic fresh food supply chains. In: Annals of Operations Research, 314 (2022). - S. 529-550.
doi:10.1007/s10479-019-03455-0

2021

Martin Waitz, Andreas Mild, Gerald Reiner, Christian Fikar: Dynamic pricing for the operations of an e-grocer. - (Vortrag), Veranstaltung: EURO 2021, 11.-14.07.2021, Athens, Greece , online.

Christian Fikar, Kris Braekers: A bi-objective solution procedure to investigating trade-offs between travel costs and quality losses during urban food deliveries. - (Vortrag), Veranstaltung: EURO 21, 11.-14.07.2021, Athens, Greece, online.

Adhurim Imeri, Christian Fikar, Gerald Reiner: A multi-objective solution approach to assess the trade-off between packaging, food waste and environmental impact in grocery retailing. - (Vortrag), Veranstaltung: EURO 2021, 11.-14.07.2021, Athens, Greece, online.

Adhurim Imeri, Christian Fikar, Gerald Reiner: Food supply chain collaboration towards reducing waste in grocery retail chains. - (Vortrag), Veranstaltung: 28th EurOMA Conference, 05.-07.07.2021, online.

Russell Harpring, Amin Maghsoudi, Christian Fikar, Wojciech D. Piotrowicz, Graham Heaslip: An analysis of compounding factors of epidemics in complex emergencies : a system dynamics approach. In: Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management, 11 (2021). - S. 198-226.
doi:10.1108/JHLSCM-07-2020-0063

Barbara Kump, Christian Fikar: Challenges of maintaining and diffusing grassroots innovations in alternative food networks : A systems thinking approach. In: Journal of Cleaner Production, 317 (2021). - 128407.
doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.128407

Christian Fikar, Magdalena Leithner: A decision support system to facilitate collaborative supply of food cooperatives. In: Production Planning & Control, 32 (2021). - S. 1179-1190.
doi:10.1080/09537287.2020.1796135

Christian Fikar, Andreas Mild, Martin Waitz: Facilitating consumer preferences and product shelf life data in the design of e-grocery deliveries. In: European Journal of Operational Research, 294 (2021). - S. 976-986.
doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2019.09.039

2020

Sonja Maria Protic, Christian Fikar, Jana Voegl, Manfred Gronalt: Analysing the impact of value added services at intermodal inland terminals. In: International Journal of Logistics : Research and Applications, 23 (2020). - S. 159-177.
doi:10.1080/13675567.2019.1657386

Christian Fikar: Model-driven decision support to facilitate efficient fresh food deliveries. In: Die Bodenkultur : Journal of Land Management, Food and Environment, 71 (2020). - S. 1-9.
doi:10.2478/boku-2020-0001

2019

Alejandro Estrada‐Moreno, Christian Fikar, Angel A. Juan, Patrick Hirsch: A biased‐randomized algorithm for redistribution of perishable food inventories in supermarket chains. In: International Transactions in Operational Research, 26 (2019). - S. 2077-2095.
doi:10.1111/itor.12668

Jana Voegl, Christian Fikar, Patrick Hirsch, Manfred Gronalt: A simulation study to evaluate economic and environmental effects of different unloading infrastructure in an urban retail street. In: Computers & Industrial Engineering, 137 (2019). - 106032.
doi:10.1016/j.cie.2019.106032

2018

Adrian Serrano-Hernandez, Javier Faulin, Patrick Hirsch, Christian Fikar: Agent-based simulation for horizontal cooperation in logistics and transportation : From the individual to the grand coalition. In: Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory, 85 (2018). - S. 47-59.
doi:10.1016/j.simpat.2018.04.002

Christian Fikar, Patrick Hirsch, Pamela C. Nolz: Agent-based simulation optimization for dynamic disaster relief distribution. In: Central European Journal of Operations Research, 26 (2018). - S. 423-442.
doi:10.1007/s10100-017-0518-3

Christian Fikar, Patrick Hirsch, Manfred Gronalt: A decision support system to investigate dynamic last-mile distribution facilitating cargo-bikes. In: International Journal of Logistics : Research and Applications, 21 (2018). - S. 300-317.
doi:10.1080/13675567.2017.1395830

Christian Fikar: A decision support system to investigate food losses in e-grocery deliveries. In: Computers & Industrial Engineering, 117 (2018). - S. 282-290.
doi:10.1016/j.cie.2018.02.014

Christian Fikar, Patrick Hirsch: Evaluation of trip and car sharing concepts for home health care services. In: Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal, 30 (2018). - S. 78-97.
doi:10.1007/s10696-016-9252-8

Adrian Serrano-Hernandez, Jesús M. Pintor, Javier Faulin, Christian Fikar, Irantzu Alegria, Pablo Astiz: Practice Summary : Deriving the Optimal Location of a Biorefinery in Northern Spain. In: Interfaces : The INFORMS Journal on the Practice of Operations, 48 (2018). - S. 596-600.
doi:10.1287/inte.2018.0953

Adrian Serrano-Hernandez, Patrick Hirsch, Javier Faulin, Christian Fikar: The role of horizontal cooperation to improve service quality in last-mile distribution. In: International Journal of Simulation & Process Modelling, 13 (2018). - S. 299.
doi:10.1504/IJSPM.2018.093753

2017

Christian Fikar, Patrick Hirsch: Home health care routing and scheduling : A review. In: Computers & Operations Research, 77 (2017). - S. 86-95.
doi:10.1016/j.cor.2016.07.019

Aljoscha Gruler, Christian Fikar, Angel A. Juan, Patrick Hirsch, Carlos Contreras-Bolton: Supporting multi-depot and stochastic waste collection management in clustered urban areas via simulation–optimization. In: Journal of Simulation, 11 (2017). - S. 11-19.
doi:10.1057/s41273-016-0002-4

2016

Christian Fikar, Manfred Gronalt, Patrick Hirsch: A decision support system for coordinated disaster relief distribution. In: Expert Systems with Applications, 57 (2016). - S. 104-116.
doi:10.1016/j.eswa.2016.03.039

Christian Fikar, Angel A. Juan, Enoc Martinez, Patrick Hirsch: A discrete-event driven metaheuristic for dynamic home service routing with synchronised trip sharing. In: European Journal of Industrial Engineering, 10 (2016). - S. 323-340.
doi:10.1504/EJIE.2016.076382

Christian Fikar, Patrick Hirsch, Martin Posset, Manfred Gronalt: Impact of transalpine rail network disruptions : A study of the Brenner Pass. In: Journal of Transport Geography, 54 (2016). - S. 122-131.
doi:10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2016.05.018

Romana Berariu, Christian Fikar, Manfred Gronalt, Patrick Hirsch: Resource deployment under consideration of conflicting needs in times of river floods. In: Disaster Prevention and Management, 25 (2016). - S. 649-663.
doi:10.1108/DPM-04-2016-0081

Romana Berariu, Christian Fikar, Manfred Gronalt, Patrick Hirsch: Training decision-makers in flood response with system dynamics. In: Disaster Prevention and Management, 25 (2016). - S. 118-136.
doi:10.1108/DPM-06-2015-0140

2015

Christian Fikar, Patrick Hirsch: A matheuristic for routing real-world home service transport systems facilitating walking. In: Journal of Cleaner Production, 105 (2015). - S. 300-310.
doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2014.07.013

Romana Berariu, Christian Fikar, Manfred Gronalt, Patrick Hirsch: Understanding the impact of cascade effects of natural disasters on disaster relief operations. In: International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 12 (2015). - S. 350-356.
doi:10.1016/j.ijdrr.2015.03.005

Fakultät für Lebenswissenschaften: Lebensmittel, Ernährung und Gesundheit
Food Supply Chain Management

Christian Fikar
Professor

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