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Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) is a technique used to illustrate business processes. The information is put in a diagram that resembles a flowchart and is easier to understand and act upon.
Although process mapping has been widely used by many organizations already, it is often complex, confusing and there is no standardized way to implement it. There’s no single, unified procedure for documenting processes, so anyone who isn’t directly involved in the mapping process finds it hard to understand the maps. To eliminate this confusion, BPMN came into the picture.
BPMN is one of the most common business process modeling techniques and uses standardized symbols to make process maps easier to understand for all relevant parties: management, employees, and consultants. It offers a standard notation that’s readily understood by everyone. All parties can easily analyze public and private business processes.
BPMN helps companies and organizations:
BPM (Business Process Management) is a discipline that utilizes different approaches to discover, analyze, measure, and improve business processes and help produce effective outcomes that support a business strategy. Business processes can either be structured or unstructured. Technologies are often used with BPM to align IT/OT investments to business strategy.
In simple terms, BPM is an effective methodology for managing and controlling the processes in an organization and ensuring that they are streamlined to make an organization more cost-efficient. BPM allows organizations to align business functions with customer needs and also helps business executives determine how to deploy, monitor, and measure company resources. When properly implemented, BPM can boost efficiency and productivity, minimize costs, and reduce errors and risk, optimizing results.
Business process modeling notation (BPMN), on the other hand, is the pictographic language used to achieve the BPM tasks. A process map may describe a complex business procedure or a simple business process. Therefore, BPMN must be flexible enough to notate all business processes. This results in a language that’s easy to comprehend and relatively limited in scope.
The primary goal of BPMN is to support business process management for both business and technical users. It provides a notation that’s intuitive to business users but is also able to represent complex process semantics.
The BPMN notation models the steps of a planned business process from beginning to end. It is very important in Business Process Management because it visually portrays a detailed sequence of business activities and the information needed to complete a process.
A standard Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) helps organizations to understand their internal procedures visually and communicate the procedures in a standard manner. BPMN provides a notation that is easily understood by all parties involved, from business analysts (who create the initial drafts of processes) to technical developers (who implement the technology that performs the processes), to the employees (who use the technology).
In this instance, we model a process in BPMN that uses some business rules. To create a bill, a discount may need to be added. The computed discount and the sum of the order are the relevant criteria to create a BPMN. The discount is computed before the bill is created and this results in a very simple process. The calculation of the discount itself shouldn’t be modeled in the BPMN.
Here, we model a process with concurring instances. If a credit check on a customer is already underway, we wouldn’t want another credit check to be performed for the same customer. This is because the different credit checks may influence the results. If one credit check is already running for a customer and there’s a request for another credit check, the new instance must check for concurring instances at the data level before initiating the second credit check.
There are 4 basic categories of BPMN elements. Each represents a different aspect of a business process.
BPMN allows an organization to capture and document business processes clearly and consistently, ensuring relevant stakeholders are involved in the process. That way, process owners can respond to any issues in the processes more effectively.
Business process modeling notation provides rich, comprehensive notations that can be easily understood by both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Here are 5 benefits it offers companies and organizations.
BPMN is a great modeling notation for business processes. It gives more insight than flowcharts and is more understandable than UML Activity diagrams. It is also more suitable for process analysis and design.
Kissflow BPM has a BPMN feature and can help your company to plot its business processes in a visual language that’s understood by all parties without misinterpretation. You can easily visualize and document business processes.
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