Business Process

"Business processes, refers to the manner in which work is organized, coordinated, and focused to produce a valuable product or service." 

Business processes are the collection of activities required to produce a product or service. These activities are supported by flows of material, information, and knowledge among the participants in business processes.

Every process has Inputs, Process (sequence of steps),outputs and cycle times. it can be depicted in the figure below

Generally every organisations have some basic functional business processes, we can list them as follows

BUSINESS PROCESS	ACTIVITIES
MANUFACTURING AND PRODUCTION	Assembling the product Checking for quality Producing bills of materials
SALES AND MARKETING	Identifying customers Making customers aware of the product Selling the product
FINANCE AND ACCOUNTING	Paying creditors Creating financial statements Managing cash accounts
HUMAN RESOURCES	Hiring employees Evaluating employees job performance Enrolling employees in benefit plans

The business process can also be based on what specific type of activity the company does
it can be customer service, inventory, fulfilment, inventory or even production. we can draw any activity a company does and make it a business process.

some of the popular business process charts is given below.