Using Processes

Bpanda is your central source of information for business processes. Your processes and related information are prepared for you here to suit your professional tasks, in your language, laid out in a way you can understand, anywhere and at any time.

Familiarizing Yourself with the Process Landscape

Processes are normally documented in the form of a process hierarchy. The top-most level of a process map is an overview of all areas where processes might be relevant for you. This is why processes are often grouped into management, core and support processes.

The areas in the next level are normally restructured so that access to processes is shown in a table of contents.

Then comes the actual process level which contains concrete processes which describe the standard process for certain procedures. This normally occurs in the form of flow diagrams which show individual activities (tasks) in a sequence flow that is started, influenced and ended by events. It also takes certain branches and merges (gateways) into consideration.

You must be able to understand the icons used in this display format. This is why Bpanda also automatically shows the order of activities in a table form as process steps in a list. Further possible steps are then provided as links. This enables every flow variation to be shown even in text form.

You can use the Guide to take you through the process diagram step-by-step and explain the icons if you have no previous experience with process diagrams.

Visibility of Process Versions

As processes can exist in various versions, the following order of ranking exists for general visibility of precisely one of many process versions which may exist.

  1. Valid process version (published version within the validity period)

  2. Next valid process version (published version with a later validity period)

  3. Last valid process version (published version with an earlier validity period)

  4. Last imported process version (revision, for authorized roles only)

  5. No display

The respective visible process version of a process is shown as a search hit under Favorites, Last Viewed, Relevant Processes .

When shown in conjunction with a release workflow, the process version contained in the release workflow is shown.

The Process Owner can block a user. The process is not visible for this user.

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