Business Process Redesign (BPR) has gained a lot of attention the last years as a way to radically improve the performance of organisations in terms of lead time, costs, output quality, and quality of work. Information Technology (IT) can help in two ways to reach those goals: (1) as an enabler of new process structures and (2) as a tool to support the redesign process.
To redesign business processes one should develop objectives, identify the processes to be redesigned, understand and measure the current existing processes, identify IT levers and design and build a prototype of the new processes (Davenport and Short, [2]).
The purpose of this library is to offer a set of classes that enable the programmer to quickly model and simulate both existing processes and proposed new processes. The library is written in C++ (Stroustrup, [5]). The design of the simulation library is based on the modelling language Logistics Based Business Modelling (Gerrits, [4]), shortly described in section 2. Logistics Based Business Modelling (LBBM) focuses on information production processes and consequently the library BPSIM also focuses on information production processes. The library uses the Discrete Event simulation library SIM , introduced in section 3. It is assumed the reader has access to A Users Guide to SIM: a C++ library for Discrete Event Simulation (Bolier and Eliëns, [1]). In section 6 the programmers interface of the library BPSIM is described, accompanied by some examples.