Description
A Business Process Modelling (BPM) language allows the definition of a graphical representation of a business process or workflow that includes attributes such as events that occur within a workflow, who owns and starts those activities, decision points and different paths workflows can take based on their outcomes, devices involved, a timeline of each step and success and failure rates of the process.
BPMN, the most popular business process modelling language6 provides a standardised graphical notation that is easy to use for business analysts, allowing them to document and communicate their business processes within their company and external business partners. Several open-source and commercial tools support BPM, such as Signavio, Camunda and Kissflow.
In the supply chain domain, BPMN is often used to represent interactions between supply-chain participants. For example, the following description is used by the UBL standard to denote how orders are processed:
Resources
This is the classic reference on business process modelling
Dumas, Marlon, Fundamentals of Business Process Management (Springer, 2013)
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FAQ
What is the difference between business process modelling and business process mining?
Business process modelling creates the business process from a spec (top down) and process mining extracts the business model from existing data such as event logs (bottom up).