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7.2. EXEMPLARS 107
Figure 7.4: Picking, packing and create delivery of enterprise A in BPMN
7.2.2 The TelCo item receiving and delivery process in EEML
The second case is from INTEROP project [145]. Enterprise B is specialized in telecommunications,
in production and distribution of batteries, as well as in retail sales of
everyday technology products. The company is called TelCo. TelCo does not have its
own warehouse but uses the services of logistics company – Orbit Ltd. But TelCo has
its logistics department who is responsible for items receiving and delivering. Thus the
main functions of logistics department are to make orders and control Orbit Ltd.
In PM B1 and PM B2 , the item receiving process and the item delivery process are described
as a series of EEML tasks. The actors in the PM B1 are commercial department,
logistics department and Orbit warehouse, whilst the actors in the PM B2 are logistics
department, IT, sales department, financial department, Orbit warehouse, franchisee
and shop. Those actors are modeled as the EEML organization in both models.
Item receiving process
PM B1 depicts the items receiving process of the TelCo company (Figure 7.5). The
logistics department receives orders to suppliers about expected quantities of items,
and then starts to receive the items. After receiving the items, the logistics department
checks the items.
These are sub-tasks included in some tasks in the model because of three types of
items receiving — regular orders to local suppliers, consignment and import. In the
case of the regular orders to local suppliers, they deliver the items with protocols and
issue an invoice. In the case of the import deliveries, sometimes there are differences in
quantities received from a foreign supplier. The department issues a protocol for the
whole quantity and another protocol for the deficit with minus quantity. The second
protocol is followed by an export invoice or an invoice to the insurance company. The
process details are described in the decomposition of the task check import items in
Figure 7.6. After checking the items, the received items will be transferred to Orbit.