Learn Practical BPMN in less than 30 minutes through an example Purchase Request Process

Purchase Request Process

• This is a purchase request process for a Work Department. There are three participants in the process the Employee (Purchase Requester),  Manager (Purchase Approver) and Purchase Department Clerk (Purchase Processor)
• The employee raises the purchase request as per his requirement
• The Manager either rejects or approves the purchase request. He may even ask the employee to modify his request and put up the same again to him.
• The approved requests are routed to the Purchase Department. The purchase department clerk receives the notification for the approved purchase requests.
• The purchase department clerk processes the requests, calls for quotations, selects the appropriate quote and issues the purchase order.
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Business Process Model Notation (BPMN) Solution

• The image at the top i.e. at the start of this blog post  is the solution for the above Purchase request process.
• The following image is also another solution for this Purchase Request process. In this two pools are used instead of one pool.

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