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A systems science approach to enterprise resources planning systems
Author(s) -
TejeidaPadilla Ricardo,
BadilloPiña Isaias,
MoralesMatamoros Oswaldo
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
systems research and behavioral science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.371
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1099-1743
pISSN - 1092-7026
DOI - 10.1002/sres.957
Subject(s) - recursion (computer science) , enterprise resource planning , variety (cybernetics) , production (economics) , computer science , production planning , supply chain management , process management , business , supply and demand , supply chain , operations management , knowledge management , economics , marketing , artificial intelligence , microeconomics , algorithm
Abstract The enterprise resources planning systems (ERP) have received considerable attention recently, not only in the management of manufacturing industry but also within the services industries and their financial management. The viable system model (VSM) is recursive and helps explaining the general production management model of the ERP system. The recursion level explains the development starting from warehouse management to material requirement planning (MRP), to manufactory requirement planning (MRPII), to ERP and to supply chain management (SCM). In each recursion level, the emergent concepts help explaining the discovery of the two categories of demand: independent demand and dependent demand, the feedback concept helps explaining the closed cycles in MRPII, the local, future and total environment concept helps explaining the interactions between the market and the production system and the law of requisite variety helps to manage complexity. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.