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ebXML CC/BP Analysis Team March 2001 Catalog of Common Business Processes v1.0 Business Process Team 11 May 2001 (This document is the non-normative version formatted for printing, July 2001) Copyright © UN/CEFACT and OASIS, 2001. All Rights Reserved
Business Process Team May 2001Copyright © UN/CEFACT and OASIS, 2001. All Rights Reserved
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Business Process Team May 2001 Table of Contents1 Status of this Document........................................................................................................ 52 ebXML Participants ............................................................................................................. 63 Introduction........................................................................................................................... 7 3.1 Summary of contents of document .................................................................................. 7 3.2 Audience.......................................................................................................................... 74 Design Objective.................................................................................................................... 8 4.1 Objectives........................................................................................................................ 8 4.2 Goals ............................................................................................................................... 85 Business Process Catalog Use Cases.................................................................................... 9 5.1 Discovery of business processes ..................................................................................... 9 5.2 Cross references.............................................................................................................. 9 5.3 Support business process contextual category ............................................................... 9 5.4 Discovery of core components ...................................................................................... 10 5.5 Support business process modeling .............................................................................. 106 The Common Business Process Catalog Overview.......................................................... 12 6.1 What is a common business process? ........................................................................... 12 6.2 Catalog categorization scheme..................................................................................... 13 6.3 Meta data for cross reference table .............................................................................. 13 6.4 Methodology for building the industry-neutral catalog................................................ 14 6.5 Registry and repository for the catalog ........................................................................ 147 Catalog of Business Processes ............................................................................................ 16 7.1 Catalog of common business processes with cross references..................................... 16 7.2 Catalog of industry specific business processes with cross references ........................ 45 7.3 Description of common business processes.................................................................. 49 7.4 REA table ...................................................................................................................... 50Catalog of Common Business Processes Page 3 of 57 Copyright © UN/CEFACT and OASIS, 2001. All Rights Reserved
Business Process Team May 2001 7.5 Transactional view........................................................................................................ 528 References ............................................................................................................................ 559 Disclaimer ............................................................................................................................ 5610 Contact Information ....................................................................................................... 57Catalog of Common Business Processes Page 4 of 57 Copyright © UN/CEFACT and OASIS, 2001. All Rights Reserved
Business Process Team May 20011 Status of this DocumentThis document specifies an ebXML Technical Report for the eBusiness community
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Business Process Team May 20012 ebXML ParticipantsWe would like to recognise the following for their significant participation to the development ofthis document
Business Process Project Team Co-Leads: Paul Levine Telcordia Marcia McLure McLure-Moynihan, Inc
Editors: Nita Sharma Netfish Technologies David Welsh Nordstrom.comContributors: Jim Clark I.C.O.T
David Connelly OAG Charles Fineman Arzoon Stephan de Jong Philips International B.V
Brian Hayes Commerce One David Welsh Nordstrom.com Rebecca Read Mercator William McCarthy Michigan State University Michael Rowell OAG Nita Sharma Netfish Technologies Jennifer Loveridge Nordstrom.com AIAG Members ASC X12 EWG MembersCatalog of Common Business Processes Page 6 of 57 Copyright © UN/CEFACT and OASIS, 2001. All Rights Reserved
Business Process Team May 20013 Introduction3.1 Summary of contents of documentThis document puts together an initial list of common business process names, generic in naturethat can be used across various industries. This includes business processes with cross referencesacross common industry standards; including RosettaNet PIPs, X12, EDIFACT,JiPDEC/CII(Center for information of Industry of JAPAN Information Processing DevelopmentCenter), OAG BOD, xCBL (CommerceOne). Identification of this catalog of common businessprocesses were influenced by various industry initiatives like RosettaNet, EIDX, CPFR, EIAJ,OAG etc. This document also illustrates how to catalog business processes
A Business Process consists of a set of business collaborations, which is itself composed of oneor more business transactions as defined by the UN/CEFACT Modeling Methodology (UMM)Business Transaction View (BTV). The behavioral aspects of a business process are defined viathe UMM Metamodel
The keywords MUST, MUST NOT, REQUIRED, SHALL, SHALL NOT, SHOULD, SHOULDNOT, RECOMMENDED, MAY, and OPTIONAL, when they appear in this document, are to beinterpreted as described in RFC 2119 [Bra97]
3.2 AudienceThe target audiences for this document includes business staff of both information and technicalbackground and specific business focus areas wishing to relate their electronic trading activitiesin a consistent pattern to the general ebXML trading community
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Business Process Team May 20014 Design Objective4.1 ObjectivesThe primary objective of this catalog is to provide the e-business community with a list ofbusiness process names and related information that are independent of any industry specifics
The generic nature of these business processes enables one to reuse them with specific contextand business rules within different vertical industries. Common business processes have beengrouped under various classifications. Another objective of this catalog is to provide thecorresponding references to business documents and business processes defined across variousindustry standards
4.2 GoalsThe goals of the list of common business processes are:• This list will drive the creation of templates for each of these business processes that can be reused across industries
• These processes are going to be the basis for discovery and definition of collaboration patterns
• This catalog can evolve to become a global, industry neutral catalog of commonly used processes with refinement and contribution from all sectors of the industries
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Business Process Team May 20015 Business Process Catalog Use Cases5.1 Discovery of business processesGiven ebXML community growth, independent of industry sector, business processes commonlyused within industry will be developed according to the UMM and will be available for re-usevia business process catalogs hosted in ebXML compliant registries/repositories also calledBusiness Libraries. The catalog of common business processes can be used for the discovery ofreusable business processes in conjunction with Worksheets/Guidelines. Please refer to the figure6.1-1. The catalog supports discovering and comparing business processes in the early stages ofbusiness process analysis. Common business processes in the catalog have associated processspecifications that include core components specific to it. Business process specification is adeclaration of the partners, roles, collaborations, choreography and business documentexchanges that make up a business process. A catalog of common business processes can beused as the business process specifications for building business document(s) for similar businessprocesses within a specific context
5.2 Cross referencesThis catalog provides informative cross-references to non-ebXML business processes andbusiness documents defined by electronic business standards organizations around the world
The catalog can also be extended to include other industry specific common electronic tradingdocuments or business process conventions. This catalog will be stored in the business library
When business process models/specifications are inserted into a business library they should becross-referenced against other industry standards
5.3 Support business process contextual categoryBusiness Process is one of the contexts defined by the ebXML Core Components classification 1scheme . A Business Process context relies on a classification derived from the list of commonbusiness processes. The main reason to use context is to encourage reuse of core components,and with it common documents and ultimately common business processes. By working from acommon set of core components and agreeing on the context for business processes, tradingpartners can better understand what business information is required to be part of a BusinessProcess. The contextual categories, identified by ebXML Core Components, map to existing1 see [ebCNTXT] for additional information on contextCatalog of Common Business Processes Page 9 of 57 Copyright © UN/CEFACT and OASIS, 2001. All Rights Reserved
Business Process Team May 2001elements and attributes within a business process model complying to the UMM. For example,the contextual Category “Process” maps to the Metamodel elements BusinessProcess,ProcessArea, and BusinessArea
5.4 Discovery of core componentsThe catalog of common business processes is useful for discovery and analysis of corecomponents that will be used as the building blocks for deriving business documents within agiven context. This can be done by checking all sources of documents listed and cross-referencedon the Common Business Process Catalog to identify a document that may have the informationneeded (which may be EDIFACT, X12, xCBL, RosettaNet PIPs, CII, OAG BODs). There maybe an existing document, which is similar and could be evaluated. Next identify if the documentcomponents meet the business requirements. If so, then these components can be reused
5.5 Support business process modelingBusiness processes are modeled by the information specified in the UN/CEFACT ModelingMethodology (UMM) Metamodel. This metamodel specifies all the information that needs to becaptured during the business modeling of an electronic commerce based business process. Withthe expansive potential of the UMM in all of it’s “intricate depth of detail”, people are advised touse tools to help them model their business processes; and thus facilitate business analysisactivities
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Business Process Team May 2001 Figure 5.5-1: Business Process Editor and Business Process CatalogWhen business experts model a business process using a “Business Process Editor” (BPE) toolwhich could use the catalog of common business processes to discover existing business process;ie. via a drop down list. A BPE would work with ebXML compliant registries/repositories. Forfurther reference, see Business Process and Business Document Analysis Definitions
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Business Process Team May 20016 The Common Business Process Catalog Overview6.1 What is a common business process?Common Business Processes are industry neutral and re-usable business processes. See Figure6.1-1. Various components of a common business process specification can be re-used to createnew business processes. Re-use will typically occur at the business process, businesscollaboration, business transaction, and business document model components. Refer to section7.4 for a more detailed example
Figure 6.1-1 has been revised to show the role of the Catalog of Common Business Processes
Catalog of Common Business Processes Process Composition Business Process / Decomposition Reuse Catalog of Common Business Process Business Collaboration Partner Types Business Collaboration Reuse Choreography Transition Guard Business Transaction Roles Business Transaction Reuse Figure 6.1-1: Business Process Model ReuseCatalog of Common Business Processes Page 12 of 57 Copyright © UN/CEFACT and OASIS, 2001. All Rights Reserved
Business process specification is a declaration of the partners, roles, collaborations, choreography and business document exchanges that make up a business process. A catalog of common business processes can be used as the business process specifications for building business document(s) for similar business processes within a specific context.
