断点和黑匣子：全球供应链中的信息

IF 0.2 4区社会学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

POSTMODERN CULTURE Pub Date : 2021-11-04 DOI:10.1353/pmc.2021.0002

M. Posner

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摘要

摘要：供应链管理涉及从原材料到消费者的商品采购和组装。随着离岸制造业的日益普及和供应商对“及时”库存管理的依赖，供应链管理变得异常复杂，对公司的竞争力至关重要。本文研究了数据在全球供应链中的作用，重点关注SAP SCM，这是一款巨大但难以访问的SCM软件，具有最大的市场份额。它认为，供应链管理具有两种相反的趋势：对商品和流动的完美信息的需求，以及对充分了解供应链设置战略壁垒的必要性。与直觉相反，这种选择性蒙昧主义正是供应链如此快速高效的原因。

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Breakpoints and Black Boxes: Information in Global Supply Chains

Abstract:Supply chain management (SCM) deals with the procurement and assembly of goods, from raw material to the consumer. With the growing prevalence of offshore manufacturing and suppliers' reliance on "just-in-time" inventory management, SCM has become both astoundingly complex and critical to companies' competitiveness. This essay examines how data works in global supply chains, focusing on SAP SCM, the huge but hard-to-access SCM software with the greatest market share. It argues that SCM is characterized by two countervailing tendencies: the demand for perfect information about goods and movement, and the need to erect strategic barriers to the fullest knowledge about supply chains. Counterintuitively, this selective obscurantism is what makes supply chains so fast and efficient.

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POSTMODERN CULTURE HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-

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期刊介绍： Founded in 1990 as a groundbreaking experiment in scholarly publishing on the Internet, Postmodern Culture has become a leading electronic journal of interdisciplinary thought on contemporary culture. PMC offers a forum for commentary, criticism, and theory on subjects ranging from identity politics to the economics of information.