• 경영과학
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.127-136
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• 2009

This paper purposes analyzing how task assignments influence on business process efficiency, and improving business process efficiency in Business Process Management (BPM) environments. For this purpose, task assignment is categorized into dynamic assignment and static assignment. Dynamic assignment binds a user to a task at process run-time, whereas static assignments assigns a task to a user at process build-time. So far, the influence of task assignment methods has not been studied. We, in this paper, analyze the business process efficiency using two different assigning rule, in terms of cycle time as a efficiency measure. The comparison result can provide a guideline for a company who wants to employ commercial BPM systems.

• 국제학술발표논문집
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• The 3th International Conference on Construction Engineering and Project Management
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• pp.622-627
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• 2009

Business process engineering (BPE) is a top-down management approach for increasing efficiency and productivity through radical and fundamental changes to the business processes of the organization. BPE requires firms to initially develop a model of the existing business processes of the firm to distinguish functional tasks from processes used for coordinating inputs, activities and outputs. The model is used for understanding the business processes in the organization and to simulate the effect of changes to the processes. The model can also be used to justify business processes, which involves assessing whether the business process provides value to the customer in its current configuration. Justification requires a careful examination of the key business processes used by the firm to identify systemic shortcomings in the process and to create a new business process to produce greater efficiency. BPE also considers automating as many business processes as possible to increase operational efficiency and the integration of business process tasks. The construction industry has been slow to adopt BPE because of its project approach in which a major firm contracts with various functional service providers and regards each project as unique. The industry focuses on functional task efficiency rather than business process efficiency. There is no formal methodology or criteria for determining whether a business process is effective for a construction firm in its current configuration. The use of performance measures such as costs, task duration times or other metrics can be useful in evaluating the effectiveness of an existing business process and for modeling the possible outcome of a fundamental and radical change to the process.

• 한국전자거래학회지
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.73-87
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• 2007

세계 주요 기업들을 중심으로 비즈니스 프로세스를 보다 표준화하고, 명확화하려는 움직임이 어느 때보다 두드러지고 있다. BPM은 이러한 시도를 구현할 수 있는 적합한 도구로서 주목받고 있다. 최근 BPM으로 구현된 프로세스를 보다 효율적으로 실행하는 것이 이슈로 대두되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 프로세스 효율성을 크게 프로세스 엔진과 업무담당자 관점에서 이를 해결하고자 한다. 프로세스 엔진 관점에서는, 엔진이 사용자에게 업무를 얼마나 효율적으로 전달하는지 바라본다. 업무담당자 관점에서는, 전달된 업무를 각 업무담당자가 어떻게 처리하는지에 주목한다. 본 연구는 각 단계에서만 효율성을 고려해왔던 과거 연구와는 달리, 두 단계에서 모두 효율적일 수 있는 방법론을 제안하며, 이를 실험을 통해 유효성을 검증한다.

• 산업공학
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• 제16권spc호
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• pp.76-81
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• 2003

BPMS (Business Process Management Systems) is aninformation system that systematically supports designing, administrating, and improving the business processes. It can execute the business processes by assigning tasks to human or computer agents according to the predefined definitions of the processes. In this research we developed a task assignment algorithm that can maximize overall process efficiency under the limitation of agents' capacity. Since BPMS manipulates the formal and predictable business processes, we can analyze the processes using queuing theory to achieve overall process efficiency. We first transform the business processes into queuing network model in which the agents are considered as servers. After that, workloads of agents are calculated as server utilization and we can determine the task assignment policy by balancing the workloads. This will make the workloads of all agents be minimized, and the overall process efficiency is achieved in this way. Another application of the results can be capacity planning of agents in advance and business process optimization in reengineering context. We performed the simulation analysis to validate the results and also show the effectiveness of the algorithm by comparing with well known dispatching policies.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.505-511
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• 2021

This study aims to investigate the effects of e-purchasing on increasing transparency, expanding market access, and the efficiency of the government procurement process. This study also investigates how transparency of the procurement process, improved market access and the efficiency of the procurement process in e-purchasing will decrease the level of fraudulent government procurement in Indonesia. The questionnaires were distributed to the Procurement Service Units (ULP) of Local Governments through email. There are currently 542 ULPs in Indonesia based on the data of the Government Procurement Policy Institute (LKPP). However, only 520 ULPs had their email addresses traced, 120 ULP returned the questionnaires and the response rate is lower than it was expected. The data research was analyzed by a structural equation model (SEM) by using WarpPLS 7.0. The results reveal that the e-purchasing effect on the transparency, the expansion of market access, and the efficiency of the government procurement process. The other findings show the negative effect between efficiency in government procurement and fraud in government procurement. The findings of this study suggest that efficiency in the process of government procurement will minimize fraud in government procurement. However, transparency in government procurement and the expansion of market access was not sufficient to minimize fraud in government procurement.

• 한국정보시스템학회지:정보시스템연구
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.169-189
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• 2006

Recently, many companies are trying to survive in a competitive business environment and they employ various kinds of information systems. Business Process Management (BPM) system is a software system that integrated enterprise information systems based on processes, which is considered an essential element for managing inner and outer processes. Though the BPM system has been applied to major processes only so far, companies begin to extends target processes applied into enterprise wide. In such settings, not only exact but also efficient management of processes is required. The efficiency of BPM has two perspectives: one is the performance of users that handle assigned tasks, and the other is the performance of the Business Process (BP) engine that carries out execution of processes. In this paper, in order to deal with the seconde perspective, we develop Drum, Buffer, and Rope (DBR) method, which have been considered innovative Theory of Constraint (TOC) method in manufacturing domain, for efficient management of processes. A new method, BP-DBR, has been developed, and we show that it is effective for business processes. The effectiveness of the method has been proved in terms of efficiency measures such as average process completion time and average number of completed processes, through a series of simulations on real banking processes.

• 한국정보시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보시스템학회 2003년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.55-63
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• 2003

Workflow Management System (WFMS) is a software system to support an efficient execution, control and management of complex business processes. Since traditional commercial systems mainly focus on automating processes, they don't have methods for enhancing the task performer's efficiency. In this paper, we propose a new method of executing business processes more efficiently in that a whole process is scheduled considering the degree of the participants' workload. The method allows managing the largest constraints among constituent resources of the process. We utilize DBR scheduling techniques to develop the method. We first consider the differences between workflow process models and DBR application models, and then develop the modified drum, buffer and rope. This leads us to develop WF-DBR (WorkFlow-DBR) that can control the proper size of the task performers' work list and arrival rate of process instances. Use of WF-DBR improves the efficiency of the whole process as well as the participants' working condition. We then carry out a set of simulation experiments and compare the effectiveness of our approach with that of scheduling techniques used in existing systems.

• 한국건설관리학회논문집
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• 제10권6호
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• pp.13-27
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• 2009

최근 건설기업은 글로벌 기업경쟁 환경과 수주경쟁 속에서 업무 효율성 증대를 위한 프로세스 경영체제에 대한 노력이 요구된다. 건설기업은 1990년 이후 프로세스 중심의 내 외부 업무구조를 개선하기 위하여 다양한 프로세스 경영기법이 도입되었으나, 그 효과는 일부 개선된 기능획득에 머물고 있다. 또한, 업무 프로세스의 효율성 향상을 위해 다양한 업무지윈 시스템들이 개발되었으나, 기능위주의 개별적 구축과 입 출력 정보 및 데이터 흐름에 초점을 둠으로써 업무프로세스 관리와 정보기술의 지원이 분리되는 업무-IT 분리현상(Business-IT divide)이 발생되었다. 본 연구는 업무-IT 분리현상의 개선 방법론으로서 BPM(Business Process Management)을 구현함으로서, 업무 프로세스를 기반으로 한 업무지원 시스템의 연계모델을 제안한다. 이를 통해 건설기업의 지속적인 프로세스 관리를 지원하며, 프로세스 수행시 요구되는 업무조건(참여주체, 업무정보, 업무지원 시스템의 기능)들을 연계함으로서 업무효율성 향상이 기대된다. 이를 위해 업무-IT분리현상으로 인해 건설기업의 업무 수행상 발생되는 문제점을 분석하여 연계모델의 개념과 아키텍처를 구성하였다. 연계모델의 구현을 위해 공정관리 업무의 전체 종 단간 업무프로세스를 분석하여 BPA(Business Process Architecture)를 작성하였으며, 각 업무 프로세스의 업무조건들을 상세분석하여, 건설기업의 주요 13개 업무지원 시스템의 주요기능과 연계하였다. 연계된 내용을 바탕으로 PDCA분석과 CRUD분석을 통해 업무 프로세스 기반 업무지윈 시스템 연계모델을 개발하였다.

• 디지털산업정보학회논문지
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.181-193
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• 2014

The environment of supply chains is rapidly changed to global and eco-freindly work process. However, at current environment, it is not easy to grasp work flow and to analyze energy efficiency. Improving energy efficiency and visibility for goods flow can contribute to increases in customer attitudes and reductions in overall production costs Additionally, it can lead to increases in work efficiency and reductions in overall production costs. Until recently, efforts to improve energy performance focused on manufacturing industry. Those efforts have expanded to the supply chain. In this paper, we perform business process modeling about supply chain for visibility and sustainability - information and component flows - from assembly plants to logistics. This paper defines the work and information flows by modeling the underlying logical structures of the supply chain and the business processes that determine impact of visibility and sustainability. We model processes using the modeling methodology specified by UN/CEFACT. This methodology explains business process functionality and business transactions by UML diagram. The output of this paper would be useful in grasping work flow and capturing the used energy.

• 한국IT서비스학회지
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.63-80
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• 2007

In this paper, the function factors contributing to ITA/EA functions in their organizations, are suggested. Also the reasons to the construction of IT governance system and their effects on the their organizations are discussed and the relationships are verified by empirical model. From the survey, the data of the 227 respondents were collected and regression analysis was performed for validating the research model. ITA/EA functions consist of the IT infrastructure systemization, ITA/EA business process support, IT investment efficiency factors. And the factors of IT resource and performance management, IT process management, IT service management are included to IT governance. The main analysis results described significantly are shows as follows. At first, IT resource and performance management factor is effected by the ITA/EA business process support factor and IT investment efficiency factor. In similarly, IT service management factor is also affected by the factors such as ITA/EA business process support, IT investment efficiency, and IT infrastructure systemization. In additional analysis, IT investment efficiency factor in official sectors, ITA/EA business process support factor in private sectors respectively are described as the significant factors on the IT governance.