Saturday, January 5, 2008

Manufacturing Industry and BPM

Manufacturing industry is a business ecosystem which comprise of process for procurement of raw material ,inventory management of raw as well as finished product , quality control ,production control ,Logistics ,purchase order ,accounts payable etc. All these processes are document intensive process where the documents are coming in from third party vendors as well as generated internally. The processes rely on the document management for their efficient execution. For example if any raw material is order purchase order is generated for quantity. The procured material has to be tested for quality. The purchase order for the procured batch of material will be approve based on quality report. The different departments are dependent on each other for completion process cycle.The processes are also dependent on each other for initiation of task and executing it.For example if the material is procured and quality certified only then production will start and once the finished good are quality certified then the logistics process begin. This interdependency of processes necessitates need of a comprehensive BPM solution

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