Collaborative Business Process Workflow Automation
Automated Business workflow is important for an apparel product lifecycle management (PLM) system because it ensures maximum throughput and accuracy when distributing work or tasks. It improves the control of a process with less manual intervention, eliminating misplaced work, reducing delays, and ensuring tasks are performed according to your company's business policies and other business rules procedures.
Business tasks and information may be automat across an organization and even between organizations. As companies become increasingly dispersed geographically, the ability to seamlessly link processes is a competitive advantage.
Business Process Visibility - another advantage of business process management system -goes beyond knowing the status of a current process. Managers soon learn that the business process visibility inherent in workflow management software also helps them identify resource constraints, bottlenecks and opportunities for improving overall process design. Of course with increased visibility also comes increased accountability
Visionet’s Workflow Management Engine
The visionet's workflow management engine (or workflow management system) is designed to manage a company's business process and automate it for the creation, updating, review and approval of documents and digital content.
The advantage of predefined workflow business process management system is that users can initiate them without knowing anything about the business system details or the business processes. Additionally, users that are assigned to workflow tasks are presented with a concise and easy to understand web page relevant to the task or activity requested of them. They do not require any information and knowledge about the previous or future steps in the workflow management system. A workflow management system can ensure that subject matter experts are involved at the appropriate stages during the document lifecycle for different document types.
The Visionet's business process management system supports a powerful and easy to use graphical workflow definition builder. A workflow definition allows a review and approval process to be predefined and automated. Workflow definitions can be created for different document types, eForms, or organizational processes.
The Visionet's workflow management system supports hierarchical and non-hierarchical workflows. A hierarchical workflow is a sub-process or sub-workflow that can be initiated by an authorized user from inside a step of an existing workflow. This allows a user to pass a request for a document action to participants not involved or known at the top most workflow.
Workflow Management System Rules
Each task in a workflow system defines a set of business rules which include time limits, priorities, notification options and how to advance or transition to the next step. Authorized users have the ability to administer the management system, including restarting it, canceling it, or moving it to another step in the hierarchy.
Collaboration Management System
All participants in a step can collaborate with other users in the same step or users in previous steps. This allows a participant in a step to view annotations and comments from any users and engage them in threaded discussions. This is particularly important in the iterative document review phase. Authorized participants in this step can make the decision to advance to the next step in the workflow, or ask more questions of the previous reviewers about their comments and annotations.
