Investigating the Effect of Functional and Flexible Infprmation Systems on Supply Chain Operation: Iran Automotive Industry

This research studies the relationship between supply chain and information system strategies, their effects on supply chain operation and functionality of an enterprise. Our research encompasses other ones because it uses a harmonic structure between information systems and supply chain strategies in order to improve supply chain functionality. The previous research focused on effects of information systems on modification of the relationship between supply chain strategies and supply chain function. We decide to evaluate direct effects of information systems on supply chain strategies. In this research, we show that information systems strategy to improve the relationship between supply chain and supply chain strategies will be. Therefore, it can be said that creating Alignment between informational system strategy and supply chain strategies finally result in improvement of supply chain functionality and company’s operation.

Keywords:

Functional Informational Systems , Flexible Informational Systems , Supply Chain Performance