Participation in IFAC MIM 2025: Award-Winning Contribution on Supply Chain Resilience and Efficiency

As part of this year’s 11th IFAC Conference on Manufacturing Modelling, Management and Control (MIM 2025), Prof. Matthias Klumpp and Katharina Berendes traveled to Trondheim, Norway, as part of the Retail Logistics & Innovation Lab to discuss practice-oriented research approaches in Supply Chain Management and Human-Centric Operations. Katharina Berendes presented her latest paper titled “Paradox Mindsets: A Pathway to Align Resilience and Efficiency in Supply Chain Management”.



The paper addresses a highly relevant topic in today’s supply chain discourse: the tension between resilience and efficiency. Building on previous work on measuring the resilience-efficiency trade-off, it shifts the focus toward the role of mental models and paradox-oriented thinking in managerial decision-making. The study shows how paradox mindsets can help better align resilience-enhancing and efficiency-boosting measures – offering an approach that is both theoretically grounded and highly applicable in practice.



For this contribution, Katharina Berendes received the Commended Paper Award.



We sincerely thank the IFAC MIM community for the inspiring academic exchange and the many insightful discussions around supply chain resilience, human-AI collaboration, and human-centric operations. We look forward to continuing the discourse on the resilience-efficiency trade-off – in both research and practice.



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