Among different BPR strategies and methodologies, one common feature is to capture existing processes and represent new processes adequately. Business process modeling plays a crucial role on such effort. This paper proposes a generic structure for modeling business processes in order to capture essential concepts of business process and represent them structurally. The generic structure possesses two main features suitable for business process modeling: one is that it can represent a business process in various concerns and multiple layers of abstraction, and the other is that it lowers the barriers between process representation and model analysis by embedding verification and validation with the model. The generic modeling method is illustrated by an order fulfillment process in supply chain networks.
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1 March 2002
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Elena-Madalina Vatamanescu
Elena-Madalina Vatamanescu
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Fu‐Ren Lin;
Fu‐Ren Lin
Department of Information Management, National Sun Yat‐sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, ROC
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Meng‐Chyn Yang;
Meng‐Chyn Yang
Department of Information Management, National Sun Yat‐sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, ROC
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Yu‐Hua Pai
Yu‐Hua Pai
Department of Information Management, National Sun Yat‐sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, ROC
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-4116
Print ISSN: 1463-7154
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2002
Business Process Management Journal (2002) 8 (1): 19–41.
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Lin F, Yang M, Pai Y (2002), "A generic structure for business process modeling". Business Process Management Journal, Vol. 8 No. 1 pp. 19–41, doi: https://doi.org/10.1108/14637150210418610
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