Paper Info
Title
Towards a flexible business process modeling and simulation environment
Abstract
Business process is crucial to the success of any business. Business process modeling enables a common understanding and analysis of a business process, and simulation is an effective way to diagnose and evaluate complex business processes. There are lots of software tools in market for business process modeling and simulation, however, a common issue for these tools is the conflict between usability and flexibility. The improvement of usability often means the reduction of flexibility. This paper introduces an IBM asset named Supply Chain Process Modeler (SCPM), which aims at providing a tailored business process modeling and simulation environment for business users. SCPM tries to achieve a better trade-off between usability and flexibility with two major efforts, a process repository for process modeling, and a flexible environment for process simulation. A case study from real consulting practice is also included to illustrate how SCPM works for business process simulation.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1109/WSC.2008.4736255
Winter Simulation Conference
Keywords
Field
DocType
tailored business process modeling,business process,process modeling,complex business process,business process modeling,flexible business process modeling,business process simulation,process repository,process simulation,business user,simulation environment,mean squared error,supply chain,business process model,simulation,process model,supply chain management
Artifact-centric business process model,Business process management,Business process,Systems engineering,Computer science,Process modeling,Business process modeling,Business process discovery,Business rule,Business Process Model and Notation,Process management
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4244-2708-6
7
0.60
References 
Authors
3
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Changrui Ren18214.85
Wei Wang2407.43
Jin Dong310021.57
Hongwei Ding418131.78
Bing Shao5166.11
Qinhua Wang6166.45