Cross-Organisational Deployment of Business Processes

Abstract

In this chapter, we take a deeper look at the problem area and provide a comprehensive example from the field of supply chain management that will be used throughout the book, particularly in Chapters 4, 5, and 7, to explicate various aspects of the approaches introduced herein. Readers interested in an overview of the results presented may browse this chapter to only get an impression of the problems motivating the methods and procedures described in this book and to get an idea of the running example also used in other chapters.