Business Process Depicting and Analyzing with a Lightweight Approach: A Case Study

摘要

When doing business process modeling and analyzing, the most frequently used methods are based on workflow technology. However, traditional workflow management systems are heavyweight and monolithic, and could not be easily reused. This paper proposes an approach of business process depicting and analyzing (BPDA). This approach decomposes the business processes into fine grains, and then finds a collection of abstracted actions (AAC), which could recompose all the processes. Main ideas and steps of the approach are introduced, and a case of a supermarket is studied to illustrate the characteristics, which are: (1) it is a lightweight approach for business process management; (2) AAC facilitates BPR; (3) the abstracted actions can turn into software component directly; (4) the abstracted actions can be easily reused.