Systms(供应链系统观).pptVIP

PART II Solutions 4 Supply Chains as Systems Supply Chains as Systems(供應鏈系統觀) Integrating a supply chain requires assembling an ad hoc collection of facilities into a coherent system that can function with a single purpose. In order to succeed in this effort, you need to know something about systems—how they are designed, how they work, and how they are controlled. In short, you need a little systems theory. This may sound like an abstract subject of limited relevance to your needs, but nothing could be further from the truth. As a manager, you deal with some of the most complex systems on earth every day, and your experience has already given you a basic understanding of how these systems work. The problem with this understanding is that its largely intuitive, making it hard to use in solving new problems. This chapter will help you hone those intuitions into powerful business design tools. 整合供應鏈需要將一些設施以特有方式組合起來，成為一個可以朝共同目 標努力的一致性系統(a coherent system)。為使上述努力可以成功，你必須 瞭解系統運作原理──如何設計它們、它們如何運作，以及它們如何被控 制。總之，你需要懂得一些系統理論(systems theory)。這聽起來好像一個 抽象主題，與你的需求關聯性不高，但事實不然。身為一個經理人，你每 天都在面對一些最複雜的系統，你的經驗已經給予你這些系統如何運作的 一個基礎性理解。這種理解的缺點是它們絕大部分是一種直覺，很難用來 解決新問題。本章將幫助你磨練你的直覺，使之成為有力的商業設計工 具。 Business Cybernetics(商業系統控制學) A system is an assembly of components The formal study of systems dates back to the 1940s with the emergence of cybernetics, which took insights gained from the invention of computers and applied them to other domains. In cybernetics, a system is viewed as an assembly of Components that interact to produce collective behavior. Computers are systems, of course, but so are plants, animals, ecologies, nations, companies, factories, and, yes, supply chains. The key insight of cybernetics is that there are common principles across all these different kinds of systems, principles that help explain the behavior of each. Knowing something about systems in general really does help you understand business systems in particular. 一個系統是由許多元件組合而成 正式的系統研究可以回溯到1940年