Business Process Patterns for Integrated Supply Chain Planning

Today´s competitive global market makes most enterprise endeavor to specialize their business areas, and co-operate with trading partners in supply chain by forms of collaboration, information and business process sharing. However, even the supply chain plan generated by co-operation often fails to be executed successfully, because it was generated without capacities of suppliers and more over nested suppliers. To overcome this limitation, the supply chain plan should be generated truly integrated way. In this paper, we classify business patterns based on scenarios, and present business process models about them. In addition, we describe the types of supply chain planning problem.