Question: Supply chain management is increasing important. The news is constantly covering problems of supply chain. Drawing on what you learn from chapter 17, 18 and 19 in the textbook, discuss how supply chain problems occur and ways system dynamics can be used to address them. It is important to consider and apply this to your everyday world to better understand system dynamics as a worldview and to share your understanding with the rest of the class.

In this discussion forum you will first share your understanding of different non-linear relationship and then reply to one of your classmates, sharing with them how you view their understanding of the problem.

Share your understanding of supply chains

Question: Supply chain management is increasing important. The news is constantly covering problems of supply chain. Drawing on what you learn from chapter 17, 18 and 19 in the textbook, discuss how supply chain problems occur and ways system dynamics can be used to address them. It is important to consider and apply this to your everyday world to better understand system dynamics as a worldview and to share your understanding with the rest of the class.

In this discussion forum you will first share your understanding of different non-linear relationship and then reply to one of your classmates, sharing with them how you view their understanding of the problem.

Add a thread to this discussion forum and share/answer the following:

What are some supply chain problems and how can system dynamics address them?

Return to the discussion forum and read the answers of your classmates. Select classmates, reply to their posts and for each one, do the following:

Indicate what you think their answer contributes to the understanding of supply chains. Include what you are referring to in you comment. The reader should not have to go back to your classmate's input.

Expectations: Please post your answer by Thursday, 23:59 of this week.

Add a thread to this discussion forum and share/answer the following:

What are some supply chain problems and how can system dynamics address them?

Text Book - Business Dynamics Systems Thinking and Modeling for a Complex World

( Chapter 17- Supply Chains and the Origin of Oscillations, Chapter 18 - The Manufacturing Supply Chain, Chapter 19 - The Labor Supply Chain and the Origin of Business Cycles)

Return to the discussion forum and read the answers of your classmates. Select classmates, reply to their posts and for each one, do the following:

Indicate what you think their answer contributes to the understanding of supply chains. Include what you are referring to in you comment. The reader should not have to go back to your classmate's input.