Supply chains and their management: Application of general systems theory |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Applied Electromagnetism Laboratory, Universidade Federal do Pará, R. Augusto Corrêa, Guamá 01, Belém, 66075-110, Pará, Brazil;2. Department of Education, Control and Industrial Processes, Information and Communication, Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Pará, Av. Almirante Barroso, Marco 1155, Campus, Belém, 66093-020, Pará, Brazil;3. Faculty of Computing and Electrical Engineering, Universidade Federal do Sul e Sudeste do Pará, F. 17, Q. 4, L. E., Marabá, 68505-080, Pará, Brazil;1. Institute of Business Management, Karachi, Pakistan;2. Faculty of Business and Law, Taylor’s Business School, Taylor’s University, Lakeside Campus, Malaysia;3. Faculty of Business and Technology, University Tunn Hussein Onn, Malaysia;4. Southampton Business School, University of Southampton, Southampton, S017 1BJ, United Kingdom;5. Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management Department, College of Engineering, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates;6. Department of Business Administration, Jinnah University for Women, Karachi, Pakistan;7. Faculty of Management Sciences, Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology (SZABIST), Karachi, Pakistan;8. School of Economics and Management, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China;1. Faculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Maribor, Kidriceva cesta 55a, SI-4000 Kranj, Slovenia;2. Division of Quality Technology and Management, Linköping University, Sweden;3. Institute of Service Management, Lund University, Sweden |
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| Abstract: | This theoretical paper discusses the application of general systems theory to supply chains and the management of supply chains. Applying general systems theory to supply chains and their management allows them to be abstracted from their real world complexity. The abstraction process uses the view of general systems theory developed by Yourdon E. [1989. Modern Structured Analysis, Yourdon Press, Prentice-Hall International, Englewood Cliffs, NJ] in his seminal work on the fundamental characteristics of information systems. In particular, Yourdon's (1989) four general systems theory based principles for information systems are applied to supply chains and their management. Through a theoretical discussion informed by relevant research literature it is considered that a more fundamental view of supply chains has been developed. That is, the application of the four general systems theory principles developed to supply chains is supported and this application provides deeper insights into how supply chains operate. This in turn should allow better supply chain management processes to be developed. |
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