Business process engineering: case studies
by Ivan K.W. Lai, Ka Wing Lee, Walter W.C. Chung
International Journal of Enterprise Network Management (IJENM), Vol. 3, No. 1, 2009

Abstract: Organisations are not independent of each other; however, they are interconnected to bring value to the marketplace. The dynamic and collaborative network of interconnected organisations is regarded as an extended enterprise (EE). The business process of the EE is the combination of sub-processes of individual partners to create value. It is designed to coordinate the information and material flows between individual enterprises. Therefore, the concept of EE is the collaborative business process between partner organisations that produces one or more outputs of value to the supply chain network. This study reviews the concepts of EE and business process, presents a business process model of the EE which can be used to understand, analyse and improve the business process of an EE, reports the case studies of the model, discusses the usage of the model and provides further research of the model.

Online publication date: Thu, 15-Jan-2009

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