Business Process Management within Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industries

As business processes are crucial success factors for companies, software-based Business Process Management (BPM) is becoming more and more important. In this area SAP, the market leader for enterprise application software, has already gath

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usiness Process Management within Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industries Markets, BPM Methodology and Process Examples

Business Process Management within Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industries

Guido Grüne Stephanie Lockemann Volker Kluy Stefan Meinhardt •



Business Process Management within Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industries Markets, BPM Methodology and Process Examples With Contributions by Petronela Barnáková, Carola Feind-Just, Markus Pfannschilling-Zerbe, Ornulf Rexin, Klaus Schölzel, Jürgen Schroth

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Guido Grüne Stephanie Lockemann Volker Kluy Stefan Meinhardt SAP Deutschland AG & Co KG Walldorf Germany

ISBN 978-3-642-11716-9 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-11717-6

ISBN 978-3-642-11717-6

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Preface

It was not until the early 1990s that the idea of process optimization began to shape the way companies operated. The concept of ‘‘business process reengineering,’’ as defined by Michael Hammer and James Champy, shifted the focus of all processes to the customer and required organizational structures to be built around optimized processes. This concept gave birth to numero