Description
In the current environment, organizational competitiveness depends on the firm’s vigilance about events that affect its performance, and how well it can position itself to effectively respond to these events. In other words, competitiveness demands that an organization consistently strives to align what the marketplace demands and what it can deliver. Supply-chain architecture is a domain in which appropriate decisions can enable an organization to handle a constantly changing market and the need for fast cycle times. An architecture is required to achieve both Organisational and Supply-Chain Agility. There are many layers of abstraction for describing architectures and our main focus here is the Information Systems or IT architecture.
An essential characteristic of an IT architecture is how it delivers modularity and extensibility through some basic component definition and composition rules. In the supply-chain space, we distinguish several important components:
- ERPs: responsible for managing entreprise information assets.
- Communication Networks: responsible for inter-enterprise information exchanges.
Resources
Knolmayer, Gerhard F et al, Supply Chain Management Based on SAP Systems: Architecture and Planning Processes (Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009).
FAQ
What is the connection between SAP and supply-chain architectures?
One of the main components of a supply chain architectures is the ERP and SAP is one of the most known ERP product worldwide.