Challenges for Processing Events in Logistics Processes

                                        Jan Mendling

                          Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Austria
                               jan.mendling@wu.ac.at



Extended Abstract
Business Process Management has proven to be a useful approach to increase the
performance of enterprises, with most of its success stories being associated with
office work and service processes. Specific challenges are faced in logistics processes,
which partially involve physical transportation activities and also casual office work.
On the other hand, there are various opportunities for taking advantage of the
increasing availability of GPS data stemming for instance from transporters of
airplanes and ships or from onboard devices of trucks. This can be of value for
monitoring transportation activities in multi-modal logistic processes.
The mentioned challenges are addressed by GET Service, a research project in the
EU’s 7th Framework Programme. The main aim of this project is to develop the
European Wide Service Platform for Green European Transportation. One area of
the specific challenges relates to the combination of BPM concepts and complex
event processing with needs of logistics monitoring, including the discretization for
monitoring status based on streaming events, aggregation for monitoring activities
based on fine-granular events and correlation for monitoring cargo based on events
of different focus [CBM+ 13, GCM09].

Acknowledgements The research leading to these results has received funding
from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under
grant agreement 318275 (GET Service).


References

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[GCM09]     Kerstin Gerke, Alexander Claus, and Jan Mendling. Process Mining of RFID-
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