Compliance Checking In Supply Chain Management

Abstract

Companies in the business world have to make their business processes compliant with the governmental regulations, otherwise, they may suffer from the law issues and economic losses. Due to globalization, checking for the conflicts between governmental regulations and the business processes in various countries is necessary, yet quite difficult. One of the problems is that if articles of regulation are interrelated, verifying the compliance cannot be achieved by just checking the compliance of each article separately as done traditionally. For this reason, we introduce Norm Nets, which is a regulation model that taking into consideration of the effect of interrelation among regulations. By using the model of Norm Nets, we proposed an approach to check the regulatory compliance. In this thesis, we first made a meta model of Norm Nets. Then we designed an automatic transformation tool from Norm Nets to Colored Petri Nets (the analysis tool used in this thesis) in order to improve the efficiency of the compliance checking approach. In the end, we verify the compliance checking approach through a case study.