Sustainability through BPM

Question

Sustainibility covers ethical, environmental, social, and governance values, and Business Process Management of any company has the power to turn it's sustainability strategy into execution.
Companies need and want a consistent and integrated business process to address sustainability initiatives. Business process management (BPM), can help companies standardize and optimize operational processes to reduce costs, improve quality, and ensures corporate sustainability too. This is the way forward to design, model, implement, run, monitor, operate, and improve business processes, while ensuring sustainable operations flexibly throughout their lifecycle.
It is at this level of Business Process Management that companies can allign their sustainibility strategies with their processes. IT is the backbone of businesses today, and thus can be used in ensuring the same allignment. The media often chooses to make a general statement that IT's role in addressing sustainability objectives is limited to Green IT, or reducing the use of energy in data centers. While the savings can be substantial, the fact is that only 2% of all carbon emissions can be traced to this source.
However, the use of IT lies in addressing the remaining 98% of carbon emissions! In fact, a recent report by the Climate Group, with supporting independent analysis by McKinsey, found that Information and Communications Technology (ICT) could reduce global carbon emissions by an amount five times larger than its own carbon footprint("SMART 2020: Enabling the Low Carbon Economy in the Information Age", The Climate Group, 2008).
Coming to the point of ethics in Business, we need to erase the myth that the field of business ethics has traditionally been the domain of philosophers, academics and social critics. Business Process management gives the power to the people primarily responsible for managing the business to also ensure ethics in the workplace. We need to understand Ethics programs do produce deliverables, e.g., codes, policies and procedures, budget items, meeting minutes, authorization forms, newsletters, etc. and BPM helps in estabilishing processes around these.
Energy and natural resource efficiency is more important now than ever before. Natural resources continue to become increasingly scarce and expensive. Business Process management can take control of your processes to optimize energy and natural resource consumption of all your operations in addition to profitability of the business.
Ensuring that businesses meets the needs of and treats fairly the people who work for them and the community in which they operates, requires BPM capabilities for improving company's internal operations along the whole chain and also reducing the waste and using less energy in the process to their final product or services.
Stakeholders are demanding effective governance, including enterprise risk management, transparency, accountability, and optimized performance. At the same time, globally integrated markets are imposing increasing volumes of regulations. Successful companies can address these challenges with the help of BPM across the enterprise with risk-balanced and risk-based controls embedded in business processes ranging from financial to human resources, environmental to trade management.
In todayu2019s business world, innovation and strategic business transformation require new methods and software products to differentiate organizations from their competition. Therefore, the next generation of business best practices requires such an integrated, holistic perspective on business process management.
Thanks,
Navneet Agarwal

Answer 1

Hi,
we have the same requirment and run into the same problem.
We stuck at the point where the response message from the
RFC has to send back to MQ.
It must link the conversation ID to the Response message.
There we need the possibility to set the ConversationID
into the response message. The ConversationID is taken
from the Request Message.
The problem is how to set the field ConversationID or
RefToMsgID in the Mapping or BPM. Could it be done via
Java or ABAP-Maping?
Is the header field only readable and can not be set
in the mapping? Maybe somebody have ane idea or a solution.
thanks,
Ly-Na Phu