Supply Chain Systems (SCS) or Supply Chain Management (SCM) has been a hot issue in management, especially nowadays with the advent of information technologies. Since Forrester’s model by System Dynamics in 1961, the issue still remains in industry. Some people associate SCS or SCM with software for supply problems. One big problem with the education is what materials or models instructors should use in the class. For example, some businessmen respond by saying “our situations or systems are different with your cases. It looks more complex and your models can hardly applied to our problems”. We need to have some archetypes to show main phenomena related with SCS, which students should understand.
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