Compliance Checking of Collaborative Processes for Sustainable Collaborative Network.

Abstract

Corona pandemic has changed our lives and is likely to have a lasting impact on our economic development, i.e. industry and services. Most organizations must change their businesses and services to comply with the strategies and rules published by the governments of different countries for providing agility, sustainability and resilience in the current situation. Non-compliance can result in an organisation paying a huge sum of money in fines and litigation. In collaborative network 4.0 (CN4.0), the importance of compliance is even more evident as its issues become more complex. The collaborative processes in CN 4.0 not only imply the collaborative business processes. In the context of industry 4.0, e.g. the collaborative processes through ERP system and MES. In this paper, we evaluate the previous compliance approaches and apply them in the collaborative network cases. Based on this, we identify the limitation of the existing compliance check approaches. We formalise the compliance challenges of collaborative processes and requirements of the new compliance approaches at design and running time respectively. To design a solution to incorporates the identified requirements, a conceptual architecture is provided.