Conceptualization and Configuration of a Generic SCM 4.0 Business Process Model Using BPMN Based on SCOR

Abstract

Systems modeling is a crucial step that comes before performance evaluation. Moreover, it allows us to better understand the company's flows, either to help in decision-making or to improve its Manufacturing Planning. In the context of Supply Chain Management 4.0 (SCM 4.0), we have chosen modeling tools that allow us to describe the main processes of the Supply Chain (SC), in order to define the needs in terms of performance evaluation, taking into account the static and dynamic specificities linked to the uncertainty of the environment and the digitalization. In fact, the static model describes structural characteristics whereas the dynamic model describes dynamic behavior. The modeling improvement process requires static and dynamic sub-models developed from identical concepts and whose coherence is ensured by interactions between the two models. In our research work, we propose a Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) used to convert the natural language of SC processes into process diagrams with graphical elements. We use tasks and sub-processes are used to depict basic SC plans and functions. Sequence flows to connect activities and present the transitions and path of tasks and plans. We also use Gateways to control the convergence and divergence of paths in SC process diagrams. Message flows display information flows and material flows between SC entities as needed. Thus, we develop a static and dynamic model that represents the SC using a generic modeling approach based on Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR) and BPMN.