Business Process Modeling for Multi-enterprise Cooperation

In the competitive global marketplace, enterprises often need to team up and operate such as a supply chain in order to achieve to common business goals. The collaboration processes of inter-enterprise are very complicated and highly dynamic. It is necessary to develop a process model to describe the business flow across enterprise boundaries. This work presents the process meta-model as the basis of process modeling. And the main element entities in the meta-model are defined to provide the knowledge for process modeling. Further more, for customer using easily, we bring forward the UML-based graphic modeling method that has user-friendly interaction and the model instances. The UML sequence diagram is used to show information exchange between collaboration partners, and the extended activity diagram is used to show the collaborative process. Finally, the procedure declaration of business process modeling is given to guide modeling, and a modeling tool system has been developed.