EPC is an abbreviation for Event-driven Process Chain, and is a flowchart based diagram that can be used for resource planning and identifying possible improvements of a business process. Businesses

MITS5507 Assignment 1 MITS550 7 Business Process Management Event Process Ch ain Diagram March 2019 MITS5507 Assignment 1 Copyright © 2015 -201 8 VIT, All Rights Reserved. 2 EPC Diagram (In dividual Assignment) - 10% ( Due week 5) This assignment is to be completed Individually . Objective (s) EPC is an abbreviation for Event -driven Process Chain, and is a flowchart based diagram that can be used for resource planning and identifying possible improvements of a business process. Businesses use event -driven process chain diagrams to lay out business process workflows, originally in conjunction with SAP R/3 modeling, but is now more widely used by many companies for modeling, analyzing, and redesigning business processes . This will be a preliminary exercise before utilizing BPMN 2.0 on the group Project in Assignment 3. INSTRUCTIONS In this assignment you will u se Signavio , (see the Activity in week 3 for creating a Signavio account ) to prepare an EPC diagram for the Case Study below . Make sure to identify the organi zational units and actors relevant to the case study and indicate on the EPC diagram the actor that is responsible for each task in the process. Submission Guidelines Your document should be a word or pdf document containing a copy of the EPC diagram you constructed in Signavio. The EPC must only be ‘one page wide’, but it may span several consecutive pages. All submissions are to be submitted through the assignment 1 Drop -boxes that will be set up in the Moodle account for t his Unit of Study . Assignments not submitted through these drop -boxes will not be considered. Submissions must be made by the due date and time (which will be in the session detailed above) and det ermined by your Unit coordinator. Submissions made after the due date and time will be penalized at the rate of 10% per day (including weekend days). Your EPC diagram will be checked for plagiarism, and plagiarized assignment will be penalized heavily. MITS5507 Assignment 1 Copyright © 2015 -201 8 VIT, All Rights Reserved. 3 Case Study MouldPlast Ltd MouldPlast is a plastics component subcontractor in the airline and automobile industry. They specialise in products that must meet very high quality standards. The nature of their business requires high standards of production wh ere all processes and procedures are followed, traceable, and auditable. These requirements are placed on them by their customers, and failure to meet them would be a serious impediment to their business. You have been called in to document and improve the ir pre -production procedures. This includes receiving and storage of materials used in manufacturing. When materials first arrive, the receiving clerk confirms the shipment by comparing the shipment to the Purchase orders on file. In most cases, materials can be matched with Purchase orders. On the occasion that they cannot be matched, the relevant Purchasing Officer is urgently notified of the materials to confirm that the materials have not been ordered as in some instances, suppliers substitute alternati ves for an order. In the case that the materials have not been ordered, the materials are refused. The receiving clerk then sorts the materials into two categories; perishable and non -perishable and assigns a material number. The materials are then placed in one of the quarantine areas that are appropriate for the type of materials. A ‘Materials in Quarantine’ notice is sent to Quality Control for all materials. In the case of perishable materials, a copy is also sent to the Materials Lab. This note lists t he name of the material, its location, the quantity, and material number. On receiving the ‘Materials in Quarantine’ notice, Quality Control inspects the materials and determines their suitability and assigns a material number. In some instances, they nee d to have tests run by the Materials Lab to determine the suitability of the materials, so a Lab Inspection Request is sent to the Materials Lab. The Lab returns an ‘Inspection Report’ to Quality Control commenting on the suitability of the materials. The ‘Lab Inspection Request’ notes the tests that need to be performed on the materials. If the materials fail to meet the required standards, Receiving, Production and Purchasing are advised with an ‘Unsuitable Materials’ notice. Receiving attaches a ‘Reject Notice’ on the materials and moves them to a reject area for disposal and advises Purchasing of the rejected materials. Purchasing is responsible for determining the procedures for disposal of the material (this may involve returning the materials to the s upplier or destruction of them). If Quality MITS5507 Assignment 1 Copyright © 2015 -201 8 VIT, All Rights Reserved. 4 Control accepts the materials, a ‘Quarantine Release’ note is sent to Receiving. On receiving this note, the goods are moved from the quarantine area to the goods received area. For non - perishable materials, Stor es Supervisor is sent a ‘Materials for Storage Advice’. On receiving this note, a storeman collects the goods and stores them in the appropriate area.

In the case of perishable materials, the Materials Lab is advised that the materials are ready for analy sis. The Materials Lab then takes a sample and prepares ‘Cooking and Storage Report’ which is sent to Production Planning and a copy is also forwarded to Receiving. At this point, Receiving sends the ‘Materials for Storage Advice’ for these materials to th e Store. The attached ‘Cooking and Storage Report’ is used to determine the location for storage. (Several different storage areas are used, some have carefully controlled temperature, humidity or both).