ABSTRACT
When designing and implementing a system, remember that system effectiveness is inversely proportional to the complexity.
—George Plossl
Information systems — by virtue of expectations for improvement and the effort, time, and expense involved in their implementation — are a prominent feature in supply chain improvement. The Preface of this book profiled eight categories of supply chain software that included hundreds of product choices. In many companies, the centerpiece of the supply chain improvement effort is implementing information technology.
