procuring business process

IRI: https://spec.industrialontologies.org/ontology/construct/ProcuringBusinessProcess

Defined In: https://spec.industrialontologies.org/ontology/core/Core/

SubClass Of: business process

Class Hierarchy

owl:Thing › bfo:entity › bfo:occurrent › bfo:process › planned process › business process › procuring business process

Definition

business process that consists of buying and ensuring the supply of products or services

Semi-Formal Definition:

every instance of ‘procuring business process’ is defined as exactly an instance of ‘business process’ that has some ‘buying business process’ and ‘supplying business process’ as ‘occurent parts’

Explanatory Notes

  1. The procurement process considers the whole cycle from identification of needs through to the end of a services contract or the end of the life of goods, including disposal.

  2. Sourcing is a part of the procurement process that includes planning, defining specifications (3.26) and selecting suppliers. [Source: ISO 20400:2017]

  3. It should be noted that we consciously exclude the person-to-person transactions, but person-to-business is not excluded.

Examples

  • AstraZeneca buying and being supplied with a bulk of raw materials from MiliPoreSigma; buying and being supplied with a shipment of office supplies

Adapted From

  • ISO 6707-2:2017, 3.5.18

Formal Axioms

First-Order Logic Definition 

ProcuringBusinessProcess(x) ↔ BusinessProcess(x) ∧ ∃b∃s(BuyingBusinessProcess(b) ∧ SupplyingBusinessProcess(s) ∧ hasOccurrentPart(x,b) ∧ hasOccurrentPart(x,s))

Description Logic

constr:ProcuringBusinessProcess ≡ constr:BusinessProcess ⊓ ∃ bfo:has_occurrent_part .constr:BuyingBusinessProcess ⊓ ∃ bfo:has_occurrent_part .(constr:SellingBusinessProcess ⊔ constr:SupplyingBusinessProcess)

constr:ProcuringBusinessProcess ⊑ constr:BusinessProcess

EquivalentTo: constr:BusinessProcess and bfo:has_occurrent_part some constr:BuyingBusinessProcess and bfo:has_occurrent_part some (constr:SellingBusinessProcess or constr:SupplyingBusinessProcess)

SubClassOf: constr:BusinessProcess