  Given the continuous global degradation of the Earth's ecosystem due to
unsustainable human activity, it is increasingly important for enterprises to
evaluate the effects they have on the environment. Consequently, assessing the
impact of business processes on sustainability is becoming an important
consideration in the discipline of Business Process Management (BPM). However,
existing practical approaches that aim at a sustainability-oriented analysis of
business processes provide only a limited perspective on the environmental
impact caused. Further, they provide no clear and practically applicable
mechanism for sustainability-driven process analysis and re-design. Following a
design science methodology, we here propose and study SOPA, a framework for
sustainability-oriented process analysis and re-design. SOPA extends the BPM
life cycle by use of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) for sustainability analysis in
combination with Activity-based Costing (ABC). We evaluate SOPA and its
usefulness with a case study, by means of an implementation to support the
approach, thereby also illustrating the practical applicability of this work.
