Archive for June, 2006

Business Process Management

Sunday, June 11th, 2006

In a previous post, I was making the case that viewing the supply chain as a network of processes is the basis for rapid performance improvement.  The process centric view of the enterprise sets the stage for understanding the fundamentals of the flow processes that form a supply chain as well as identifying their performance drivers. Once the processes are analyzed and improved then execution can be automated to ensure consistently high performance.

This particular area has seen a lot of interest in the past few years from business executive sand IT professionals alike and the science of Business Process Management, or BPM has emerged to incorporate a methodology to understand, execute and improve business processes as well as the enabling technology to suport it. [Continue…] »