About
Global, European and Austrian production and logistics networks face multiple challenges. The overlapping crises of recent years have exposed vulnerabilities in supply chains and production networks, which leads to a multitude of questions regarding the design of more sustainable, resilient networks.
To solve these questions, the institute takes an interdisciplinary approach. ASCII scientists create data-based analytical tools and use methods from mathematics, data and network science, international economics, management science, supply chains and logistics.
The supply chain issue is embedded in overarching risks (e.g. geopolitical discord, trade wars) and the impact of man-made climate change, the mitigation of which will require new production structures and business models. The institute provides data and knowledge bases and acts as the first point of contact for analyzing, evaluating and deriving recommendations for action for time-critical and complex issues related to value chains.
ASCII is being realized in close cooperation with the founding organizations: the Complexity Science Hub, WIFO, Logistikum of the Upper Austrian University of Applied Sciences and Verein Netzwerk Logistik.
VISION
The Supply Chain Intelligence Institute Austria sets itself the following goals in the field of supply chain and resilience research:
Fact-based support of economic policy in Austria and the EU on issues related to supply chains and production networks
Direct and practice-oriented knowledge generation in the field of value networks, change processes and their integration into the macroeconomic context
Increasing methodical knowledge to cope with the complexity and dynamics of value networks
International orientation of the training of the next generation
High impact of the results due to the inherent involvement of politics, business and science