Research on business process modeling of the home appliance manufacturing value chain

The home appliance manufacturing value chain (HAMVC) is a collaborative process between different participants and activities, spreading all over the scenarios in research and development, production, supply, sales, service, etc., and the rationality of its business process directly affects the stable operation of the HAMVC. However, few works have focused on business process modeling for the HAMVC. So, this paper first defines the concept of the Petri net. Then, it designs the modeling methods of single and multi-agent business processes for the HAMVC based on the Petri net theory. Finally, the created business process model for order allocation of an air conditioner production in case verification demonstrates the validity of the proposed method, which indicates that the method is useful for modeling the business process of the HAMVC and can provide visualizing reference to relevant managers.