3 The concept of managing complexity can be applied to any system, and not necessarily just supply chains. Two primary sources of omplexity in ANY system are: A Number of nodes in the system AND Complexity of those nodes B Location of elements in the system AND Quantity of information flowing through them Number of elements in the system AND Level of correlation among elements Disorganized elements in a system AND Organized elements in the system Good complexity in the system AND Bad complexity in the system