Structural Complexity Assessment: A Design and Management Tool for Supply Chain Optimization

Nowadays, competitiveness of supply chain companies is not just about optimizing supply chains within functions, but supply chains have to be optimized across functional elements as well. At this time, there are known several structural complexity indicators that have been validated for specific or/and generic supply chain models. Our intention in this paper is to test their ability to discern configuration dissimilarities between selected organizational concepts. The results of this theoretical study show that some of the indicators can be effectively used for identifying better configuration variant having feasible influence on organization performance while designing supply chain network.