A Collaborative planning process modelling methodology. An application to a real case

Resumen

Nowadays the business process modelling concepts are becoming a strong support to model the planning complexities in the supply chain. Moreover, under a collaborative context, consider an properly modelling methodology and choose as well the right modelling language will help to represent and understand the system in a simplest way. Therefore, in order to find the common patterns regarded to the business process modelling that are considered to support the problems related to the operational collaborative planning in the supply chain management context, a scientific literature review in carry out. Regarding to this, it is concluded that a methodology that support the operational collaborative planning modelling process must consider all the risk related to the business process modelling and the information technologies. In this context, a business process modelling notation (BPMN) is considered to develop the modelling methodology and to represent a real situation in this context also. Key words: Collaborative planning (CP), business process modelling (BPM), modelling methodology, business process modelling notation (BPMN), supply chain (SC).