A dynamic evaluation methodology for enterprise business process

An outstanding enterprise system should provide the analysis functions for various business process flows to assist enterprise decision-makers to understand their enterprise and make reasonable decisions. Based on Activity-Based Management technology (ABM), this paper presents an evolutionary approach such as intelligent business process analysis concepts and metric measurement models for six kinds of process flows within manufacturing enterprises: activity flow, product flow, resource flow, cost flow, cash flow, and profit flow. The proposed process flow analysis technology has been developed as a dynamic enterprise process analysis tool within a process simulation and optimization environment to validate the proposed evolutionary approach. © 2006 IEEE.