Reengineering of Legacy Systems into Supply Chain Systems: Traditional Data Oriented versus Process Oriented Approaches

2. Supply Chain Systems

The internet and information technology have important effects in the modern chain management. The most import according to Simchi-Levi et al., (2003) objectives of IT in Supply Change Management are:

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  Providing information availability and visibility;

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  Enabling single point of contact of data;

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  Allowing decisions based on total supply chain information;

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  Enabling collaboration with supply chain partners.