Ramón van Almsick is a PhD candidate in the fields of transport decarbonization at Kühne Logistics University, supervised by Prof. Dr. Moritz Petersen and Prof. Dr. Maria Besiou. In his research, he studies opportunities and challenges in collaboration in decarbonizing the transport chain. In particular, the small and medium-sized enterprise nature of the transport sector is taken into account.
Ramón received his Master's degree from Kühne Logistics University in 2022. In his thesis, he studied the challenges of carbon accounting of transport emissions and built a decision model for shippers to determine the required data granularity in carbon accounting. Before joining the KLU in 2020, Ramón completed his Bachelor's degree in Logistics Management with a specialization in transport management at Jade University of Applied Sciences. During his studies, he spent semesters abroad in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, at the Nelson Mandela University and in Gothenburg, Sweden, at Chalmers University of Technology.
In addition to his studies, he worked as a student assistant at the Center for Sustainable Logistics and Supply Chains and gained multiple practical experiences in the field of logistics and supply chain management during internships in the retail industry.
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Professional Experience
| Since 2023 | PhD candidate at Kühne Logistics University, Hamburg, Germany |
| 2022 - 2023 | Research Associate, Center for Sustainable Logistics and Supply Chains, Kühne Logistics University, Hamburg, Germany |
| 2022 - 2022 | Working Student, Center for Sustainable Logistics and Supply Chains, Kühne Logistics University, Hamburg, Germany |
| 2021 - 2021 | Research Assistant, Center for Sustainable Logistics and Supply Chains, Kühne Logistics University, Hamburg, Germany |
| 2020 - 2020 | Coordinator Transport Management, Gebr. Heinemann SE & Co. KG, Hamburg, Germany |
| 2019 - 2019 | Internship, Logistics Solutions, Gebr. Heinemann SE & Co. KG, Hamburg, Germany |
| 2018 - 2018 | Internship, Logistics and Operations, Woom GmbH, Klosterneuburg, Austria |
Education
| 2020 - 2022 | Master of Science in Global Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Kühne Logistics University, Hamburg, Germany |
| 2021 - 2021 | Semester abroad, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden |
| 2016 - 2020 | Bachelor of Science in International Logistics Management, Jade University of Applied Science, Elsfleth, Germany |
| 2018 - 2018 | Semester abroad, Nelson Mandela University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa |
Publications
Supply chain sustainability is becoming increasingly crucial to buying firms. Despite its importance in achieving their own sustainability targets, firms struggle to diffuse sustainability among their suppliers. Although previous research concludes that incentivization is the most effective in improving supplier sustainability, firms face high monitoring costs or opportunism risks when managing sustainability in multi-tier supply chains due to information asymmetry. In response, practitioners develop a novel approach to improve supplier sustainability, eliciting the importance of signaling effects in supplier sustainability management (SSM). Using a grounded research approach based on 40 semi-structured interviews, we explore the emerging SSM approach in the transport sector, which is based on sourcing standalone sustainability attributes?such as low carbon intensity?detached from the physical supply chain. We find that although information asymmetry is reduced, signaling effects of the sustainability attribute influence the firm's willingness to invest in it. Further, we find that firms operating in complex supply chains show a stronger willingness to source standalone sustainability attributes. Our results elicit the importance of signaling effects in supplier management approaches and propose a novel SSM approach to the multi-tier supply chain management literature.
Der IPCC-Report aus dem August 2021 ist die jüngste einer Reihe von deutlichen Warnungen vor den Folgen des voranschreitenden Klimawandels. Alle Wirtschaftsbereiche stehen mehr denn je in der Verantwortung, ihre Treibhausgasemissionen schnell und umfassend zu senken. Die Logistik macht etwa 10 % des globalen CO2-Ausstoßes aus. Der größte Anteil entfällt auf den Straßengüterverkehr. Aufgrund hoher Wachstumsraten, der anhaltenden Abhängigkeit von fossilen Brennstoffen und der hohen Fragmentierung des Markts ist die Senkung der CO2-Emissionen bzw. die sogenannte Dekarbonisierung des Straßengüterverkehrs besonders herausfordernd. Auf Basis der Ergebnisse einer großen Umfrage wird in diesem Beitrag herausgearbeitet, wie kleine Transportdienstleister und ihre Auftraggeber einen Beitrag zur Erreichung globaler Klimaziele leisten können. Im ersten Schritt kann eine genauere Messung der CO2-Emissionen dabei helfen, die Vorteilhaftigkeit lange bekannter aber nicht immer genutzter Dekarbonisierungsmaßnahmen klar herauszustellen. Auftraggeber können ihre Transportdienstleister dann zusätzlich mit passenden Anreizsystemen motivieren und unterstützen.
