Example Of System Thinking

 SWEET FACTORY

System characteristics:-

 

1) Components:  Storage, Administration, Human Resource, Service & Customers, Production, Sales & Marketing, Accounting, Finance and Production Department.

 

2) Interrelated components : The departments (components) are dependant on each other.

 

3) Boundary: The physical walls of the factory.

 

4) Purpose : Is to be global so get more profits.

 

5)Environment : Distributors, Businessmen, Banks & Customers.

 

6) Interface : The factory interacts with the suggestions of  customers and with the offers that banks, distributors and businessmen give to it. Also the departments can interact with each others (example: the administration interacts with all the other departments)

 

7) Constraints: Government & their laws and the high production costs.

 

8) Inputs :  Ingredients of sweets such as sugar, Labor and Machines.

 

9) Outputs: Sweets, Trash and Bank Deposits.

 

 

Environment: Distributors, Businessmen, Banks & Customers

 

 

Boundary