Authors:
Estrela Ferreira Cruz
and
António Da Miguel Rosado Cruz
Affiliation:
ARC4DigiT - Applied Research Centre for Digital Transformation, Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo, Portugal, Centro ALGORITMI, Escola de Engenharia, Universidade do Minho, Guimarães and Portugal
Keyword(s):
Business Process Modeling, BPMN Process Model, Domain Model, Value Chain Integration, Perishable Products, Food Products, Quality Monitoring and Tracing, Product Lot Localization Traceability.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Information Systems Analysis and Specification
;
Model Driven Architectures and Engineering
;
Requirements Analysis And Management
;
Software Engineering
Abstract:
Traceability of product lots in perishable products’ value chains, such as food products, is driven by increasing quality demands and customers’ awareness. Products’ traceability is related to the geographical origin and location of products and their transport and storage conditions. These properties must be continuosly measured and monitored, enabling products’ lots traceability concerning location and quality throughout the value chain. This paper proposes pattern integrated business-process and domain models for food product lots traceability in the inter-organizational space inside a food value chain, allowing organizations to exchange information about the quality and location of product lots, from their production and first sale until the sale to the final customer, passing through the transportation, storage, transformation and sale of each lot. The paper also presents the process followed for obtaining these two pattern models. Three exploratory case studies are used, toward
s the end of the paper, for validating the proposed business-process and domain pattern models.
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