High-Level Flowchart of a Large Organization

High-Level Flowchart of a Large Organization

This chapter presents a flowchart of a developed company and a rendering of the material and goods movements, supported by the relevant document types:

Explanation of the expanding flowchart

• The company operates several warehouses, which are interconnected.
• The items movement is monitored through input and output documents, also known as business events.
• Business events are defined by different document types that affect the stock.
• Document types that allow stock to be transferred between warehouses reduce the stock at the issuing warehouse and increase it at the receiving warehouse. The interwarehouse transfer documents in the flowchart are: 2000, 2100, 2400 and 2500.
• When the company receives the material/goods/raw material from the supplier, it creates an input document, which increases the stock in quantity and/or value at the receiving warehouse. In the flowchart, these documents are: 9000, 1400, 1500, 1100, 1200, 2000, 1000.
• Output documents, which are created upon issue, can send the item into manufacturing where the product is created, or directly to the customer. The stock for the issued item is reduced in the warehouse. In the flowchart, these documents are: 9100, 9300, 3300, 3000, 3100, 3D00, manufacturing documents with ID 6, ...
• For stock syncing purposes, internal type documents are used. They are not related to customers and suppliers, but only regulate the situation of a specific warehouse in the company. In the flowchart, these document types are: 3500, 1B00, 6900, 7100, 1C00, ...

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