Eine makrosoziologische Analyse von Transitional Justice
Dominik Pfeiffer entwickelt ein neues Theoriewerkzeug zur Analyse der Globalisierung von Transitional Justice, die ein vor einigen Jahrzehnten entstandener soziopolitischer Prozess ist, der sich durch und über eine Einbettung in Weltkultur (die „World Polity“) vollzogen hat. Es kam nicht nur zu einer weitgehenden Normalisierung, sondern auch zu einer Rationalisierung des Umgangs mit massiver Gewalt und Gräueltaten. Die Globalisierung von Transitional Justice ist als eine ambivalente Entwicklung zu begreifen, die zugleich für zu wenig und zu viel globale Gerechtigkeit sorgt: So entziehen sich trotz allem immer wieder mächtige Staaten der Ahndung von Makrogewalt, während gleichzeitig an anderen Orten Aufarbeitungsprozesse maßgeblich durch globale Normen und Mechanismen beeinflusst werden.
A Flexibility Planning Model for the Consumer Goods Industry
Companies, especially in the consumer goods industry, have realized the importance of flexibility in their distribution networks for the provision of high customer service levels. The challenge is to determine how flexibility potentials such as excess capacities in storage and transport should be set up and utilized as an integral part of distribution planning. Flexibility planning shall avoid unused flexibility potentials that represent cost drivers and insufficient flexibility alike. It needs to consider constraints such as lead times and dependencies between different adaptation measures. In addition, flexibility is a property which depends on future conditions, and anticipating the future development of the demand complicates the planning task and increases the complexity of the planning problem. The author presents a planning model that incorporates flexibility decisions into the distribution planning. The use of a stochastic model allows for the consideration of demand scenarios and enables a flexible reaction to unforeseen changes. The planning model anticipates the development of the material flow and accounts for the temporal gap between the periods in which flexibility measures are implemented and the periods in which the beneficial effects in terms of high service levels develop. Its contribution to theory and practice could be demonstrated by means of different evaluation cases with involvement of companies from the consumer goods industry. Dominik Pfeiffer, born 1985, studied Information Systems at the University of Münster, Germany. During his doctoral studies he worked as a Research Assistant at the European Research Center for Information Systems (ERCIS). In May 2014 he obtained the degree of Doctor of Economics (Dr rer. pol.) from the School of Business and Economics at the University of Münster. Since 2014 he works as an IT Architect in the Strategy and Architecture division of a German utility.
