Business process integration, automation, and optimization in ERP: Integrated approach using enhanced process models

Business Process Management Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 504-526

  Samaranayake, Premaratne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Business process re engineering; Functional analysis; Process efficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 67749090814     PISSN: 14637154     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14637150910975516     Document Type: Article

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