High Level Business Process Flow

Business Process flow is the graphical presentation for specifying business process usinf flowcharts. the objective of Business Process Flow  is to support both technical users and business users. By providing a graphical representation business usres can easily understand complex business processes.

The primary objective of Business process Flows is to provide standard notation readily understandable by all business stakeholders. These include the business analysts who create and refine the processes, the technical developers responsible for implementing them, and the business managers who monitor and manage them. Consequently, Business Process Flows serves as a common language, bridging the communication gap that frequently occurs between business process design and implementation.

Here I am depicting the high level business process flows for the above mentioned flows. We will get into the details when we go to the specific chapter:

Hire (Recruit) to Retire: As the name suggest this flow takes care of all the organizational aspects from the time a person is recruited in an organization till he retires. Retirement can be of any kind. It can be age related retirement, employee resigns from the services or any other type where the person leaves the organization.
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Procure to pay (purchase to pay or P2P) is the process of obtaining and managing the raw materials needed for manufacturing a product or providing a service. It involves the transactional flow of data that is sent to a supplier as well as the data that surrounds the fulfillment of the actual order and payment for the product or service. According to the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply, procure to pay should be a seamless process from point of order to payment. Technology can assist this process.

The goal of a procure-to-pay software system is to automate processes by introducing efficiency controls. For instance, to enforce buying controls, the software might cross-reference purchasing budgets to ensure compliance with pre-defined buying limits. A requisition that was within pre-defined limits would be programmatically routed for approval, converted into a purchase order once approved and immediately sent to the correct supplier by email.

A sophisticated procure to pay system is capable of extracting invoice and payment data from a general ledger, enterprise resource planning (ERP) or customer relationship management (CRM) systems while also accepting transaction data from banks, vendors, shipping and other outside sources and reconciling complex and multiple supplier statements to payments and good received.

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The Record to Report management process provides strategic, financial and operational feedback about how a business is performing. this process involves collecting, transforming and delivering relevant, timely and accurate information to stakeholders inside and outside the organization. such feedback provides insight into whether stakeholder expectations have been met.

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Order to cash (O2C) is a set of business processes that involve receiving and fulfilling customer requests for goods or services. O2C is the process of obtaining and managing the orders from the customer, this information is fed to the manufacturing department for manufacturing a product or providing a service. It involves the transactional flow of data that is sent from a customer as well as the data that surrounds the fulfilment of the actual order and receiving payment for the product or service.

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