OrganizationThe organizational unit is a businessdepartment, that is involved in a task.

Positions are the smallest organizational unit in a company andare assigned to a single person.

A role typifies individual persons withidentical properties such as privilegesor responsibilities.

Group of people working together.

Event-driven Process Cain (EPC)

Data & RisksAn information carrier storesknowledge/data.

A cluster is a collection of relatedentity types and can be used torepresent business objects.

A KPI instance indicates thedegree of goal accomplishment.

A risk represents the possibledanger of a defined processobjective not being achieved.

A business policy is a directive, whose purpose is to govern orguide the enterprise.

A requirement is a documentedneed of what a specific application system, product orservice should be or do.

Enterprise ArchitectureThe application system type is hea software system that is used tosupport the execution of a function.

An application systemrepresents a concrete, identifiable application systemwithin a company.

A software robot is anapplication system type thatcarries out a function autonomously (RPA).*

An attended software robot isa software robot (RPA) thatrequires human intervention.*

An IoT object represents a typeof things that are elements of IoTand have similar properties.

Exetend Elements/SatellitesThe extended EPC elements allow you to detailthe pure procedural description of your business process by integrating data, risks, resources, organizational elements etc. Thecorresponding objects are called satellites.There are two modeling alternatives:

1. Model the satellites directly in the EPC and assign them to the function to get allinformation at a glance.

2. Move the satellites to a FunctionAllocation Diagram (FAD) to reduce thevisual complexity of the EPC.

General InformationThe Event-driven Process Chain (EPC) is amodeling notation to describe business processes.It integrates all relevant business perspectives andis embedded in the overall process landscape.

While Value-added Chain Diagrams (VACD)provide an overview on the functional areas of an organization, EPCs are used to detail them on a procedural level.

Core Elements

The EPC core elements allow you to model theprocedural sequence of functions within the scope of individual business processes.

Event & FunctionsAn event describes a state that controls or influences the progression of the process. They trigger functions and are the results offunctions.

A function is a task or activity performed to deliver process outputs and support businessobjectives.

ConnectorsConnectors are used to split and join the controlflow. Split connectors have one incoming and several outgoing connections. Vice versa for joinconnectors.

XOR (exclusive or) considers exactly one path.

AND considers all paths.

OR considers at least one path.

Linking & HierarchyProcess interfaces link EPCs on the sameprocess hierarchy level and navigate in ahorizontal fashion.

Lower-level EPCs can be assigned tofunctions to describe them on a more detailed level. This provides a deeper process hierarchy level (vertical link).

RACI/RASCI ConnectionsThe RA(S)CI method enables you to simply describe how organizational elements participatein completing tasks in business processes. The EPC o�ers di�erent connection types to connectorganizational objects and functions:

must be informed about

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Check salescontract anddocuments

Sales contract/documentation

complete

Sales contract/documentation

deficient

Correctdocumentation

Documentationcorrected

Contractfinalized

Create salesorder

Regional salesadministrator

PRO-ORDER

Inform clientabout order

status

Local dealer-ship sales rep

Customerinformed

Contractprocessing

Invalid orderprocessing

New vehiclereservation

New vehiclesales order

Regional salesadministrator

Local dealer-ship sales rep

Sales order management

Customerqualification

Quotationprocessing

Contractprocessing

Sales orderprocessing

(as-is)

Marketing & sales

Salesplanning

Pre-salesmanage-

ment

Sales ordermanage-

mentBilling

Value-Added Chain Diagram (VACD)

contributes to UPPORTIVE S

* Available with ARIS 10 SR8 (April 2019)

EPC in ARISCheat sheet

Check salescontract anddocuments

Local dealer-ship sales rep

New vehiclesales contract

Function Allocation Diagram (FAD)

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