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Horus and ERP‐Oriented Process Design—Overcoming Communication Lapses of Processes
Author(s) -
Krone Oliver
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
knowledge and process management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.341
H-Index - 44
eISSN - 1099-1441
pISSN - 1092-4604
DOI - 10.1002/kpm.1424
Subject(s) - computer science , process (computing) , business process , process management , process modeling , petri net , relation (database) , engineering design process , abstraction , function (biology) , work in process , knowledge management , engineering , operations management , database , mechanical engineering , epistemology , algorithm , operating system , evolutionary biology , biology , philosophy
This paper examines, on the basis of a mixed method approach, the potential of the Horus method for process engineering and its beneficial consequences for Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP) application Requirements Engineering (RE). The Horus method for process engineering is based on Petri nets. Process modeling is reduced to the elements of business objects and their processing in an organization. Horus works extensively with the principle of abstraction for process design. It disentangles process execution from organizational and strategic aims of the process engineering project. Communication gaps referred too are in relation to process design and understanding as both are important contributors for successful RE for ERP design and implementation. The focus in the description is on communicative weaknesses in the areas of business objects definition, the interface function inherent to them as processes cross‐departmental boundaries. Considered are project internal communication obstacles resulting from Tayloristic work distributions, too. Against these communicative weaknesses, the Horus method is matched. It is described how the tool‐kit approach ameliorates these challenges of process (re‐)engineering when conducted in relation with and for ERP implementation. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.