Business Process Models as Design Artefacts in ERP Development

Adequate design of business process models is a matter of designing the model to fit the context in which it is going to be used. This includes knowing about different complex use scenarios, user groups and the specific purpose that the model is going to serve. This paper will consider one example of such a situated design, namely that of a design of a business process model intended to support development of ERP systems that eventually will support business processes. We will describe this kind of model as an example of a design artefact playing the role as a boundary object in software development, and discuss the challenges there might be in making an adequate design of such a model