- 6 M - Machine, Method, Material, Man, Measurement, Milieu
- 4 P - Policies, Procedures, People, Plant/Equipment
- 7PMG - Seven Process Modeling Guidelines
- ABC - Activity-Based Costing
- APQC - American Productivity and Quality Center
- B2B - Business-to-Business
- BAM - Business Activity Monitoring
- BOM - Bill-of-Material
- BPA - Business Process Analysis
- BPEL - Web Service Business Process Execution Language
- BPM - Business Process Management
- BPMN - Business Process Model & Notation
- BPMS - Business Process Management System
- BPR - Business Process Re engineering
- BTO - Build-to-Order
- BVA - Business Value-Adding
- CEO - Chief Executive Officer
- CIO Chief Information Officer
- CMMI - Chief Maturity Model Integrated
- COO - Chief Process Officer
- CRM - Customer Relationship Management
- CT - Cycle Time
- DBMS - Database Management System
- DCOR - Design Chain Operations Reference
- DES - Discrete-Event Simulation
- DMS - Document Management System
- EPC - Event-driven Process Chain
- ERP - Enterprise Resource Planning
- FIFO - First-In-First-Out
- HR - Human resources
- IDEF3 - Integrated Definition for Process Description Capture Method
- IT - Information Technology
- ITIL - Information Technology Infrastructure Library
- KM - Knowledge Management
- KPI - Key Performance Indicator
- NVA - Non-Value-Adding
- OASIS - Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards
- OMG - Object Management Group
- PCF - Process Classification Framework
- PD - Product Development
- PDCA - Plan-Do-Check-Act
- PO - Purchase Order
- POS - Point-of-Sale
- PPM - Process Performance Measurement
- RBAC - Role-based Access Control
- RFQ - Request for Quote
- ROI - Return-On-Investment
- SCAMPI - Standard CMMI Appraisal Method for Process Improvement
- SCOR - Supply Chain Operations Reference Model
- Smart eDA - Smart Electronic Development Assessment System
- SOA - Service-Orientated Architecture
- STP - Straight-Through-Processing
- TCT - Theoretical Cycle Time
- TOC - Theory of Constraints
- TQM - Total Quality Management
- UIMS - User Interface Management System
- UEL - Universal Expression Language
- UML - Universal Modelling Language
- UML AD - UML Activity Diagram
- VA - Value Adding
- VCH - Value Creation Hierarchy
- VCS - Value Creation System
- VRM - Value Reference Model
- WIP - Work-in-Progress
- WfMC - Workflow Management Coalition
- WfMS - Workflow Management System
- WS-BPEL - Web Service Business Process Execution Language
- WSDL - Web Service Definition Language
- XES - Extensible Event Stream
- XML - Extensible Markup Language
- XSD - XML Schema Definition
- YAWL - Yet Another Workflow Language
Further reading on BPM
Read an overview of BPMReview the typical stakeholders in a BPM project
Dumas, M. La Rosa, Marcello. Mendling, Jan and Reijers, Hajo. 2013. Fundamentals of Business Process Management Hardcover. Springer.