Abstract
Recently, the company’s overall performance (OP) has become a major concern of our modern society, as a key factor that can potentially increase firm’s competitive advantage and ensure its sustainable development. However, OP is increasingly being considered as highly complex because of the complex interrelationships within industrial systems. This article presents a contribution to modeling of OP in order to apprehend its complexity and take into account the interactions between all its aspects. The proposed model is based on a combination of the value chain concept and System Modeling Language modeling. The main study established an OP indicators system to better present the firm sustainability behavior, and thus provide a comprehensive view that facilitates an in-depth understanding of its complexity. Besides, a case study from the dairy industry is presented to illustrate the model. This model can identify different activities’ interactions in the firm and understand interrelationships between OP dimensions and firm’s activities. Moreover, the proposed indicators system helps to define OP problems in the firm. Such knowledge enables managers to identify OP problems’ drivers, the related activities and set up the optimal solutions to improve the most critical activities whose performance affect the whole value chain.
Highlights
Over the three decades, humanity is expected to consume about 140 billion tons of minerals, fossil fuels, and biomass per year, three times its current annual consumption.[1]
This study proved that the use of formal modeling by SysML makes it possible to address problem emerging from complexity management within a large, multi-layered system
We propose a new decision-support tool using SysML modeling combined with a value chain perspective to support overall performance (OP) assessment and management, within manufacturing systems
Summary
Over the three decades, humanity is expected to consume about 140 billion tons of minerals, fossil fuels, and biomass per year, three times its current annual consumption.[1] environmental concerns are in question, but social and human well-being is threatened by the scarcity of natural resources. Development which meets the needs of current generations without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs . Sustainable development was first defined by the United Nations in 1987 (UN World Commission on Environment and Development, 1987): “ . . . development which meets the needs of current generations without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs . . . .”5
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