Business Process

The business process is a structured set of activities or jobs are interrelated to solve a specific problem or produce products or services (to achieve a specific purpose). Business process has several sub-processes also play a role in achieving the goals of a business process. A good business processes will make users to make better and faster business decisions to implemented, help improve and control operations, and increasing the production flow.

A business process has characteristics :

• Definitive : A business process must have limits, input and output pins.
• Sequence the business process should consist of sequential activities according to time and space.
• Customer : A business process must have a process result receiver.
• Value added : The transformation that occurs in the process should add value to the recipient.
• Linkage : A process can not stand alone, but must be related in an organizational structure.
• Cross Function : A process is generally, though not necessarily, include some functions.

The process owner, the person responsible for the performance and ongoing development of the process, also considered to be a characteristic of business processes.

There are some types of business process :

• Management process, the process that controls the operation of a system. Examples such as the Strategic Management
• Operational processes, processes which includes the core business and create the primary value stream. For example, processes such as purchasing, manufacturing, advertising and marketing, and sales.
• Supporting processes, which support the core processes. Examples such as accounting, recruitment, help center.

Source : wikipedia