MIST 2090 1st Edition Lecture 10 Outline of Last Lecture Business Processes Outline of Current Lecture Business Process Modeling BPM basics BPM Notations Order Management process in BPM Gateway symbols o Exclusion decision o Parallel fork Resource modeling in BPM Current Lecture Business Process Modeling BPM basics o Business process a set of one or more goal directed activities that are in sequence and or parallel it is still a start to goal series of activities o Because they have different business visions and goals they have different business processes and people info and tech BPM Notations o Many different notations for capturing communicationg and designing business processes from left to right sequence diagram flowchart EPC event driven process chain o The emerging standard in modeling business processes is something called business process modeling notation BPMN and we will learn about that on Thursday Order Management process in BPM o Simple order management process is triggered by the reception of a purchase order from a customer o The purchase order has to be checked against the stock availability of the products o Depending on stock availablitiy the purchase order may be confirmed or rejected o If purchase order is confirmed the goods requested are shipped and invoice sent to customer o If rejected process comes to an end o Activities in two parallel paths do not need to be performed at the same time o Pictures more effective than WORDS These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute o Only 30 of words actually read Gateway Symbols o Exclusion decision merge Indicated ocation w in a business process where the sequence flow can take two or more alternative paths Only one of the paths can be taken Depicted by a diamond shape that may contain a marker that Is shaped like an X o Parallel Fork Join Provide a mechanism to synchronize parallel flow and to create parallel flow Depicted by a diamond shape that must contain cross symbol Resource Modeling in BPM o Resource classes are captured using Pools independent organizational entities Ex customer supplier Lanes resource classes in the same organizational space and sharing common systems o Sales department marketing department o Clerk manager engineer