Viola Rühlin

Projects

• Jet Engine Emissions and Toxicology Studies on Sustainable Aviation Fuels Aiming at Reduced Particle Emission and Climate Impact / Team member / ongoing
• Knoweldge transfer of circular economy principles into the heatpump industry / Deputy project leader / ongoing
• Sustainable and Circular Supply Chains for the MEM-industry: a systemic approach for a net zero world / Team member / ongoing
• Smart UMH: Smart urban multihub concept: Sustainable and liveable cities with low logistics visibility / Team member / ongoing
• Development of a tool to collect scope 1 and 2 emissions for SME / Team member / completed
• Frigero - Towards energy autonomous temperature-controlled supply chains / Deputy project leader / completed

Publications

Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed

• Rühlin, V. et al. (2025) 'Marginal abatement cost curves for cold food supply chains : a hybrid adoption of the practice-based and supply-chain practice view', Journal of Cleaner Production, 518(145902). doi: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2025.145902.
• Rühlin, V., Del Duce, A. and Scherrer, M. (2023) 'The impact of spatial aspects on the supply chain and mobility demand of pharmaceutical products in e-commerce and brick-and-mortar shopping', Sustainability, 15(14), p. 11058. doi: 10.3390/su151411058.

Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed

• Rühlin, V. and Scherrer, M. (2024) 'Identifying configuration dimensions for temperature-controlled supply chains under the contingencies of climate change', in 31st European Operations Management Association (EurOMA), Sant Cugat, Spain, 29 June - 4 July 2024.
• Scherrer, M., Steiner, A. and Rühlin, V. (2023) 'Greening urban logistics : introducing a method to evaluate optimised decoupling hub locations', in Transportation Research Procedia. Elsevier, pp. 572–579. doi: 10.1016/j.trpro.2023.11.441.
• Rühlin, V., Weingart, J. N. and Scherrer, M. (2023) 'Sourcing decisions for plant-based food alternatives in the context of the triple bottom line', in 30th European Operations Management Association (EurOMA), Leuven, Belgium, 1-6 July 2023.
• Rühlin, V. and Scherrer, M. (2023) 'Distribution of power as moderator between supply chain integration and environmental performance', in 10th International EurOMA Sustainable Operations and Supply Chains Forum, Hamburg, Germany, 20-23 March 2023.
• Doege, P., Rühlin, V. and Scherrer, M. (2023) 'Digitalization-enabled supply chain redesign for more sustainability in the apparel industry', in 10th International EurOMA Sustainable Operations and Supply Chains Forum, Hamburg, Germany, 20-23 March 2023.
• Scherrer, M., Steiner, A. and Rühlin, V. (2022) 'Decoupling hubs for sustainable urban logistics : introducing a method to define optimal locations', in 6th World Conference on Production and Operations Management (P&OM), online, 23-25 August 2022.
• Rühlin, V. and Scherrer, M. (2022) 'Towards net zero-emission logistics cold chains', in 9th Transport Research Arena (TRA), Lisbon, Portugal, 14-17 November 2022.
• Rühlin, V. and Scherrer, M. (2022) 'Identifying environmental improvement potentials in temperature-controlled supply chains through advanced value stream mapping : a case study in the vegetables and fruits industry', in 29th International Annual EurOMA Conference, Berlin, Germany, 1-6 July 2022.
• Rühlin, V., Del Duce, A. and Scherrer, M. (2022) 'Assessment of environmental impacts of online and physical retail channels in medicine trades', in 9th EurOMA Sustainable Operations and Supply Chains Forum, Zagreb, Croatia, 21-22 March 2022.
• Doege, P., Rühlin, V. and Scherrer, M. (2022) 'Beyond the carbon footprint : a holistic sustainability assessment of trade across online and offline retail channels', in 9th EurOMA Sustainable Operations and Supply Chains Forum, Zagreb, Croatia, 21-22 March 2022.
• Scherrer, M. and Rühlin, V. (2021) 'Design principles for energy autonomous logistics cold chains', in 8th EurOMA Sustainable Operations and Supply Chain Forum, online, 22-23 March 2021.

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