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• availability control control—of the possibility to fulfil orders according to
demand (availability checking on the items required is performed on the avail-
able to promise quantity /ATP/—quantity calculated from the current stock,
planned receipts, and planned requirements), availability control of—materials,
production, warehousing, transport capacities, stock.
Global standards of process modelling methodology [e.g. Unified Modelling
Methodology —(UMM)] and modelling language [e.g. Unified Modelling
Language —(UML)] 2 applied to process specification guarantee equal and clear-
cut process interpretation between business partners in supply chain. Common
business processes should use cross references across common industry stand-
ards—technological, informational and functional—based on i.e. Supply Chain
Operations Reference-model—(SCOR).
Information about IT environment of cooperation relationships in production
processes include:
• data of production requirements speciication,
• data of production resources and technical architecture,
• business and production process speciication schema (B&PPSS),
• registry information model (ebRIM) and registry services speciication (ebRSS),
• messaging services speciication (ebMS),
• collaboration protocol proile and agreement (CPP & CPA).
The general model of enterprise's process management that was assumed by
authors as basis for analysis of complex production process efficiency in ecologi-
cal aspect is shown in Fig. 5 .
Effective coordinating of activities (processes) in a supply chain based on har-
monizing the actions implemented by different executors (enterprises, business
units, individual employees) aimed at achieving a specified objective (e.g. the
required product quality, reliability of deliveries, level of resource using, sales
volumes, costs and profit level). Simultaneously with operational shaping of the
supply chain it is also important to analyze the impact of sustainable operations
management on the customer service level and sales revenues, material flow rate
and cash conversion cycle as well as value of the working capital employed.
Based on researches results in polish enterprises, instruments regarding effi-
cient management are insufficient to transmit financial and market plans into oper-
ational activities, including various scenarios of processes in the sustainable
supply chain. The results of the study presented in Fig. 6 confirm the need for ana-
lyzing and controlling coherency of market and financial results with the forma-
tion of operational activities. 3
2 UN/CEFACT— United Nations/Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business.
3 Own study conducted within a research project: Development of a universal pattern of logistics
controlling solutions for Polish enterprises and their supply chains. The study was conducted via
detailed audits in 92 enterprises and by means of an interview and opinion poll among manag-
ers of 176 enterprises. The study was conducted in 3 chosen sectors—automotive, building and
household devices—in production and retail sector, with an even quantitative distribution in the
group of small, medium and large enterprises.