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  • Lack of systems thinking as a barrier for supply-chain management
    Mulej, Matjaž ; Potočan, Vojko
    A dominant logistics philosophy throughout the 1980s and into the early 1990s involved the integration of logistic with other functions in organizations in an effort to achieve the enterprise's ... overall success. The early to mid-1990s witnessed a growing recognition that there could be a value in coordination of the various business functions not only within single organizations but across organizations as well - what can be referred to as a supply-chain (SC) management philosophy. For research of supply chain management (SCM) it is important to have a common understanding of what is meant by supply chain and supply-chain management. But supply chains are not a totally new concept: organizations traditionally have depended upon suppliers, and organizations traditionally have served customers. Some SCs can be much more complex than others. Coordinating complex SCs is likely to be more difficult than for less complex relations. SCM can be defined as "the requisitely systemic, strategic coordination of the traditional business functions and the tactics of these business functions within a particular company and across businesses in the supply chain, in order to improve the long-term performance of companies and the entire supply chain." Successful SCM requires companies to apply systems approach across all organizations in the supply chain. When applied to supply chain, the systems approach suggests that companies must recognize the interdependencies of major functional areas within, across, and between firms. In turn, the objectives of individual supply chain participants should be compatible with the objectives of other participants. To what degree objectives are realistically defined and attained, depends on the level of holism of thinking, decision making, and action. This need can be met better, when systems thinking is applied, which is based on application of systems theory that is not aimed at description, but of one aimed at support to interdisciplinary creative cooperation; the Dialectical Systems Theory meets this need. In this case supply-chain members are targeted.
    Vir: Logistika i suvremeno poslovanje : zbornik radova = Logistics and modern business : collected papers (Str. 19-31)
    Vrsta gradiva - prispevek na konferenci
    Leto - 2007
    Jezik - angleški
    COBISS.SI-ID - 9494300

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