Enabling Support of Collaborative Cross-enterprise Business Processes for Legacy ERP Systems
In order to create innovative business products, share knowledge between people and businesses, or increase the control and quality of services, more and more often enterprise business processes involve in collaborations by delegating or providing some pieces of work to other enterprises. Necessity...
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| author | Gundars Alksnis Ērika Asņina Mārīte Kirikova Egils Meiers |
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| description | In order to create innovative business products, share knowledge between people and businesses, or increase the control and quality of services, more and more often enterprise business processes involve in collaborations by delegating or providing some pieces of work to other enterprises. Necessity to cooperate in the cross-enterprise setting leads to Collaborative Business Processes (CBPs). The difference between CBPs and Business Processes (BPs) is in the decentralized coordination, flexible backward recovery, participants notification about the state, efficient adaptability to changes, presence of multiple information systems, and individual authorization settings. In the paper we consider a specific case of CBPs where multiple collaborating partners use Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system of the same vendor. The vendor can see (e.g., monitor) the changes of data elements, but does not have explicit process awareness in the ERP system to support flow of activities in the cross-enterprise setting. The paper also discusses different settings of cross-enterprise CBP and shows simplified enterprise models behind the vendor possibilities to positively impact collaborative processes. The restrictions of the vendor are implicit information flows in BP, diversity of ERP integrations with third party Information Systems (IS), the lack of mechanisms for monitoring BP instances, backward recovery, user notification about the current state and tasks, and inability to make explicit changes in customers’ ISs. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-9ba30038fe6d4ebfa208d8f3e8196d1e2025-08-20T03:36:54ZengRiga Technical University PressComplex Systems Informatics and Modeling Quarterly2255-99222015-04-010211810.7250/csimq.2015-2.01577Enabling Support of Collaborative Cross-enterprise Business Processes for Legacy ERP SystemsGundars Alksnis0Ērika Asņina1Mārīte Kirikova2Egils Meiers3Institute of Applied Computer Systems, Riga Technical UniversityInstitute of Applied Computer Systems, Riga Technical UniversityInstitute of Applied Computer Systems, Riga Technical UniversityVisma Enterprise Ltd.In order to create innovative business products, share knowledge between people and businesses, or increase the control and quality of services, more and more often enterprise business processes involve in collaborations by delegating or providing some pieces of work to other enterprises. Necessity to cooperate in the cross-enterprise setting leads to Collaborative Business Processes (CBPs). The difference between CBPs and Business Processes (BPs) is in the decentralized coordination, flexible backward recovery, participants notification about the state, efficient adaptability to changes, presence of multiple information systems, and individual authorization settings. In the paper we consider a specific case of CBPs where multiple collaborating partners use Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system of the same vendor. The vendor can see (e.g., monitor) the changes of data elements, but does not have explicit process awareness in the ERP system to support flow of activities in the cross-enterprise setting. The paper also discusses different settings of cross-enterprise CBP and shows simplified enterprise models behind the vendor possibilities to positively impact collaborative processes. The restrictions of the vendor are implicit information flows in BP, diversity of ERP integrations with third party Information Systems (IS), the lack of mechanisms for monitoring BP instances, backward recovery, user notification about the current state and tasks, and inability to make explicit changes in customers’ ISs.https://csimq-journals.rtu.lv/article/view/952Cross-enterprise, collaborative business process, business process monitoring, legacy ERP system, leading system architecture |
| spellingShingle | Gundars Alksnis Ērika Asņina Mārīte Kirikova Egils Meiers Enabling Support of Collaborative Cross-enterprise Business Processes for Legacy ERP Systems Complex Systems Informatics and Modeling Quarterly Cross-enterprise, collaborative business process, business process monitoring, legacy ERP system, leading system architecture |
| title | Enabling Support of Collaborative Cross-enterprise Business Processes for Legacy ERP Systems |
| title_full | Enabling Support of Collaborative Cross-enterprise Business Processes for Legacy ERP Systems |
| title_fullStr | Enabling Support of Collaborative Cross-enterprise Business Processes for Legacy ERP Systems |
| title_full_unstemmed | Enabling Support of Collaborative Cross-enterprise Business Processes for Legacy ERP Systems |
| title_short | Enabling Support of Collaborative Cross-enterprise Business Processes for Legacy ERP Systems |
| title_sort | enabling support of collaborative cross enterprise business processes for legacy erp systems |
| topic | Cross-enterprise, collaborative business process, business process monitoring, legacy ERP system, leading system architecture |
| url | https://csimq-journals.rtu.lv/article/view/952 |
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