Dynamic Enterprise Modeling - Overview

Overview

To align a specific company with Dynamic Enterprise Modeling, the organizational structure is blueprinted top-down from high-level business processes to low-level processes. This blueprint is used as a roadmap of the organization, that is compatible with the structural roadmap of the software package. Having both roadmaps, the software package and the organizational structure are alienable. The blueprint of an organizational structure in Dynamic Enterprise Modeling is called a reference model. A reference model is the total view of visions, functions, organizational structures and processes, which together can be defined as a representative way of doing business in a certain organizational typology.

The DEM reference model consists of a set of underlying models that depict the organizational architecture in a top-down direction. The underlying models are:

• Enterprise Structure Diagrams: The company site structure is visualized with the dispersed geographic locations, the headquarters, manufacturing plants, warehouses, and supplier and customer locations. Physical as well as logical multi-site organizations for internal logistic or financial flow optimization can be diagrammed.

• Business Control Model : The Business Control Model represents the primary processes of the organization and their control, grouped in business functions. The DEM reference model exists of one main Business Control Model, resulting in several other Business Control Models per function area of the organization.

• Business Function Model : The Business Function Model is a function model that focuses on the targets of the several functions within the company.

• Business Process Model : The Business Process Model focuses on the execution of the functions and processes that originate from the Business Control Model and the Business Function Model. Processes flows are depicted and processes are detailed out.

• Business Organization Model : The Business Organization Model focuses less on the processes and more on the organizational aspects such as roles and responsibilities.

Together these models are capable of depicting the total organizational structure and aspects that are necessary during the implementation of the Dynamic Enterprise Modeling. The models can have differentiations, which are based on the typology of the organization (i.e.: engineer-to-order organizations require different model structures than assemble-to-order organizations. To elaborate on the way that the reference model is used to implement software and to keep track of the scope of implementation methods, the Business Control Model and the Business Process Model will be explained in detail.