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Enhanced exception handling in sales order processing workflows

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posted on 2018-08-06, 08:36 authored by Wouter W.C. Derks
In a general study of the literature eleven main areas of research were considered relevant to workflow management and its application in the domain of Sales Order Processing (SOP). It was concluded that exception handling may provide a unifying focus on the dynamic behaviour of workflow systems. Indeed this initial study revealed that current workflow approaches: (1) will overly constrain sales order processors as they seek to handle exceptions by imposing unrealistic and thus rigid ways of working onto their end-users; (2) do not support the needs of workflow system developers very well, since their workflow specifications are time-consuming to develop and maintain and are difficult to verify. Having made these observations this study conducted a detailed literature study and identified three main classes of workflow approaches, namely: traditional workflow approaches (i.e. SADT/IDEF0, Grai Nets, IDEF3, IEM and ClMOSA), ECA workflow approaches (i.e. WIDE and Rapide) and transactional workflow approaches (i.e. Sagas, ConTracts, and Partial Rollbacks). Subsequently it was decided to study specific properties of sales order processing exceptions and their effects. [Continues.]

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Loughborough University.

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  • Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering

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© Wouter Derks

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

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2003

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A Doctoral Thesis. Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of Doctor of Philosophy at Loughborough University.

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  • en

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