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What is a “Socio-Technical System?”

The Lean Thinker

The work also met every definition of “difficult, dirty and dangerous.” this is particularly true in ERP / MRP environments.) See a trend here?). Since each team worked independently, the system as a whole could easily accommodate the simple fact that in some spots the coal is harder to dig out than in others. (If

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Making Sense of Supply Chain 4.0

Material Handling and Logistics

The trouble with this definition is that it doesn’t explain what exactly changes in supply chain management—that is, what gets “transformed”—when digital technologies are adopted. Since there didn’t seem to be a clear definition of digital supply chain transformation available, I developed one from first principles.