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This is a BPMN process diagram example that visualizes the flow of Nobel Prize nomination.

The selection of a Nobel Prize Laureate is a lengthy and carefully executed process. The processes slightly differ for each of the six prizes; the results are the same for each of the six categories. Following is the description for the Nobel Prize in Medicine. The main actors in the processes for Nomination, Selection and Accepting and Receiving the award are the:

• Nobel Committee for Medicine
• Nominators
• Specially appointed experts
• Nobel Assembly and
• Nobel Laureates

Each year in September, in the year preceding the year the Prize is awarded, around 3000 invitations or confidential nomination forms are sent out by the Nobel Committee for Medicine to selected Nominators.

*Extracted from OMG BPMN 2.0 by Example

In this BPMN example, we used only one pool and different lanes for the people involved in this process, which automatically means that we blank out the communication between those people: We just assume that they are communicating with each other somehow. If we had a process engine driving this process, that engine would assign user tasks and therefore be responsible for the communication between those people.

*Extracted from OMG BPMN 2.0 by Example

This is a BPMN diagram example. The order fulfilment process starts after receiving an order message and continues to check whether the ordered article is available or not. An available article is shipped to the customer followed by a financial settlement, which is a collapsed sub-process in this diagram. In case that an article is not available, it has to be procured by calling the procurement sub-process. Please note that the shape of this collapsed sub-process is thickly bordered which means that it is a call activity. It is like a wrapper for a globally defined task or, like in this case, sub-process.

*Extracted from OMG BPMN 2.0 by Example

This is a BPMN diagram example for job recruitment.

A hiring manager wants to hire someone. The manager submits a job requisition to human resources. HR returns a list of candidates and the manager interviews them. This cycle continues until a suitable candidate has been found.   After a candidate has been found, accounting is notified to set up the payroll for the new employee. On the first day of work the manager conducts the initial briefing and gives the new employee a tour of the facilities.

*Extracted from OMG BPMN 2.0 by Example

This is a BPMN diagram example for to-be process modeling.

Once the business process of your existing operation has been created, you can then derive the to-be process model by considering and projecting the necessary improvements or changes needed to be made based on the existing to-be process. Walk through the steps in this tutorial to see how things work.

You can then compare the changes in As-is Process and To-be Process (visit here to see a complete tutorial)

This is a simple BPMN process diagram. From the diagram, the process begins with the sales representative receives a purchase order from a customer and proceeds to check the stock level. If there is enough stock on hand to meet with the order, the sales representative will pack them. The process ends with shipping them along with an invoice. In case of insufficient stock, the sales representative will suggest the customer to amend the purchase order.

This is a BPMN diagram example that shows the process of distilled water ordering.

As shown from the diagram, the customers can either call the ordering hotline or send us Email to order distilled water. Currently, 90% of the orders come from phone calls, while 10% orders are placed by Email. The customer service assistant who receives the order will check whether the customer is an existing customer or a new one. If the customer has never placed order before, the customer service assistant will create a customer account for him or her prior to processing the order.

The delivery of distilled water is carried out once a week on every Wednesday. So, on every Wednesday morning, the customer service assistant will forward orders to the Logistics Department for delivery. Once the manager in the Logistics Department has received the orders, he will arrange the delivery by assigning workers to manage different orders, printing and posting the schedule. The workers receive the calls and deliver water to the customer accordingly.

Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) is a graphical representation that provides companies with the ability to understand their internal business procedures more easily and clearly. The BPMN example describe a simple leave application approval process

Businesses are often divided logically into functional departments (eg. accounting, marketing, sales, warehouse etc). Swimlanes show each of these departments relevant to a process. Using swimlanes it can be seen when a process is crossing from the responsibility of one department to another. If two or more organisations are involved in a transaction (and typically for our purposes two are) then each organisation ay have its own internal swimlanes (i.e departments).

• Pool – represents a participant in a process. Usually in the context of B2B situations.
• Lane – represents a sub-partition within a pool. Lanes are used to organise and categorise activities.

This BPMN diagram example shows a pool (could represent one party/organisation in the process) and a pool divided into swimlanes.

This BPMN example is about Business-To-Business-Collaboration. Because we want to explicitly model the interaction between a pizza customer and the vendor, we have classified them as "participants", therefore providing them with dedicated pools.