The Architecture of Complexity

Abstract

Many tasks and problems of everyday logistics – and also many academic works of the field – are connected with the question: How can logistic systems be designed in order to make them meet the complex requirements of dynamically and unpredictably changing markets and company environments? How to keep them manageable? How to deal with exploding risks inherent in overly complex systems, and how to control the transaction cost for planning, supervision, quality assurance and deficiencies in those kinds of systems? These questions raise the issue of optimal “architectures of complexity”.