Based on the seminal paper of Farrell (1957), researchers have developed several methods for measuring effi ciency. Nowadays, the most prominent representatives are nonparametric data envelopment analysis (DEA) and parametric stochastic frontier analysis (SFA), both introduced in the late 1970s....

In the course of globalization, producing companies are confronted with new challenges to optimize their logistics performance based on logistical measures. In order to be able to create a quantifiable basis for the selection of optimal measures, a management tool was developed at the Institute...