Asset Managemnet using BPM

BPM provides a collaborative platform for designing and executing a workflow for the asset management of the company. The company used BPM for designing and implementing workflow for taking care of infrastructure and maintenance needs of company. The workflow was connected through sales and logistics database as well as infrastructure database. The typical process started with the request from a particular wholesale branch for increase in infrastructure assets or request for maintenance. The requisition was sent for approval to the competent authority in head office for infrastructure approval .The checklist was embedded in workflow which pulls out data from infrastructure database of last maintenance work /infrastructure enhancement .The request for new infrastructure/maintenance is also goes for approval to the sales head responsible for that area .The checklist for sales approval involves pulling out data from sales data bases in terms of increase in sales and subsequent increase in logistics cost. The additional information that needs to be put in is loss of sales due to lack of infrastructure/maintenance. The request when approve by both sales and infrastructure authority .The request is then sent to the region head for approval. The region head if approves the process it automatically triggers the process of calling tenders from third party vendors listed in the company. The communication is send to all the vendors via email asking them to respond with quotation within fifteen days. As soon as all the vendors place their quotations or then the processes of short listing tenders is triggered and the mail is send to all the tender committee members for which queue has already been created in the BPM platform. The members approve the tender of one particular vendor . The process of sending mail to the vendors is initiated stating tender process is closed and the name of vendor selected for work. The vendor who has been awarded work can send his bill via email which again triggers account payable processes which involves verification of task ,quality of task and approval for payment.