IM Challenge 2025 successfully completed!

Challenge completed! Seven student teams presented their outstanding solutions for this year’s IM Challenge. Over the past few months, they have developed and implemented optimization approaches for a practical integrated planning problem in warehouse order picking at Zalando.

Congratulations to the winners, who delivered the best solutions for this complex planning task! Once again, all teams have demonstrated that the methods of Operations Research can be successfully applied to solve real-world problems. At the same time, the students gained valuable insights into the application and implementation of modern optimization techniques.

Many thanks to all participants for their creativity and perseverance, and to Zalando for supporting and providing this challenging problem!