A cybernetic approach to create real-time optimized supply chains

Globalization causes many challenges for companies in the branch of industrial production. The Project Business Layer Model uses a cybernetic approach as one step to deal with this problem. The central elements of this model are Business Processes which describe activities, tasks, and work steps to create products or services. Business Processes can be used to enable real-time optimization of the supply chain in a company and between different companies. The supply chain management incorporates static as well as dynamic influences on a Business Process. This includes the comparison of Result Templates with educt requirements, the handling of external suppliers, the influence of the change of an engineering tool and the orientation of the supply chain.