Business process reengineering of a supply chain and a traceability system: A case study Original Research Article

The aim of this study was to develop business process reengineering for a supply chain of fourth range vegetable products and to set up a computerised system for managing product traceability. A framework based on event-driven process chains (EPCs) methodology, the entity-relationship model (ERM) and activity-based costing (ABC) is used to define and analyse the current state of a supply chain and design a future system. The production chain of fourth range vegetable has seldom been developed on an industrial scale. We chose to reengineering a supply chain according to an industrial type production starting from the production of seed within the company itself and covering all the stages of cultivation, processing and marketing of the product. The models of traceability processes, the project of a software using ARIS and the integration of this software in the management system of a supply chain allowed the company studied in this work to develop a framework for the integration of the information flow and for cost analysis.