Fortune 500 company annual reports explicitly discussed reengineering efforts that were currently under way. One analyst recently estimated the annual market for BPR services in U.S.-based companies at $1.8 billion; another predicts a growth of 20 percent each year from 1994 to 1996 (Caldwell 1994). To measure the long-term impact of this work, one must consider a multiple of this figure as the...

Business Process Reengineering (BPR) is an essential tool before an information system project implementation. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) projects definitely require the standardization and fixation of business processes from customer order to shipment. Therefore, ERP implementations are well proven to be coupled with BPR, although the extend and timing of BPR with respect to ERP implem...

Business process reengineering (BPR) is one of a company's major instruments to achieve improved performance. BPR projects almost always include major efforts on developing and integrating information technology. This paper addresses how BPR and application development may be methodologically integrated, building on a product-based design of business processes and a component-based IT developme...

Business Process Reengineering is a reverse design process that allows for radical improvement in quality, service, cycle times, productivity and cost for a specific market or customer of a company. To support BPR project in the company, several methodologies are emerging, each of them focused on the analysis of the company’ Business Processes. These BPR methodologies, share one common task: mo...

Various strategies of Business Process Reengineering (BPR) have been developed to improve companies’ entire business process. From a more systematic viewpoint, these systems should be further organised under a unified value-added process, which covers all activities of a supply chain. Based on this understanding, a so-called business process reengineering system (BPRS) was proposed and develope...