Cooperative business collaboration business process modeling using UN/CEFACT UMM

E-business means an electronic business transaction among business entities using computer system, network and other resources. Interoperability is one of important characteristics at e-business, because it needs to cover heterogeneousness between different platforms or commerce environments. Business process (BP) which is one of e-business category, is a modeling technology to business transactions that are able to integrate transaction processing. It makes a scenario after modeling to business process. With the scenario, it may accomplish B2B transaction automatically. So, it is able to cope with a change as reusability is expanding from document-level to scenario-level. Also, it is possible to support business collaboration between trading partners (companies). To do modeling, in this paper, we use UN/CEFACT (United Nations Center for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business) UMM (UN/CEFACT modeling methodology) as methodology and work with 4 view of open-EDI (electronic data interchange) BOV (business operational view). An aim of BP modeling is to make transaction scenarios through BP modeling and to execute automatically B2B transaction via the scenarios. In the early commerce stage, the standardization of business document was important matter more than anything else. We extend reusability-level to business scenario and are able to dynamically cope with changes. In this paper, we consider logistics part as target business domain and do business modeling using worksheet and UML (Unified Modeling Language) diagram of UMM. The modeled scenario is managed as XML (extensible Markup Language) based on BPSS (business process specification schema). Also, it is able to integrate with implement infra, such as messaging service, repository, etc.