Teaching Business Processes Effectively using Business Process Management System

Abstract

To achieve top position as an executive of top management, students of Information Systems must adequately understand business processes such as how to manage business process effectively and efficiently, and how to integrate business processes among company s business partners. Business processes are complex activities that difficult to be understood by students without viewing detail and related sub processes, and parties involved in those processes. By viewing the flow of sub processes in a business processes, students could have better understanding on the interaction and relationship between processes and departments within an organization. Based on ACM Undergraduate Information System curriculum year of 2002, Faculty of Computer Science University of Indonesia teaches business process management using business process management systems (BPMS) for third year Information System undergraduate students in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) class. The business process management system is developed to save, update and search processes. This system can reveal the interconnection among business partner s processes by exploiting XML so that the students could understand how the companies easily define, share and execute their processes. Based on the author s experiences in teaching ERP, student s enthusiasm including the performance in learning business processes and the number of ERP class participants are increasing in each semester