A Viable Systems Model approach to Enterprise Resources Planning systems

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Abstract

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 Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP), and to Supply Chain Management (SCM). In each recursion level, the emergent concepts helps explaining the discovery of the two categories of demand: independent demand and dependent demand, the feedback concept helps explaining the closed cycles in ERP, 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.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationInternational Society for the Systems Sciences - 52nd Annual Conference of the International Society for the Systems Sciences 2008
Pages309-322
Number of pages14
StatePublished - 2008
Event52nd Annual Conference of the International Society for the Systems Sciences 2008, ISSS 2008 - Madison, WI, United States
Duration: 13 Jul 200818 Jul 2008

Publication series

Name52nd Annual Conference of the International Society for the Systems ScInternational Society for the Systems Sciences - 52nd Annual Conference of the International Society for the Systems Sciences 2008
Volume1

Conference

Conference52nd Annual Conference of the International Society for the Systems Sciences 2008, ISSS 2008
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityMadison, WI
Period13/07/0818/07/08

Keywords

  • Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP)
  • Recursion level
  • Viable Systems Model (VSM)

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