Showing the added value of BPMN in WMS

Abstract

My thesis is about using the business process modeling notation tools to evaluate warehouse management processes and compare two types of warehouse management systems which were used in a logistics company in Liege/Belgium. The thesis is basically structured by explaining the business process management and business process modeling theory and elaborating the typical processes used in a warehouse. Then A real life case study is explained in the third chapter about a company that previously used an old fashioned warehouse management system (WMS) and decided to replace it with a new real-time based WMS. The BPMN diagrams were used to model each process of the warehouse before and after the new WMS and finally a gap analysis is conducted to highlight the inefficiencies that were neutralized with the WMS.