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Description

The high degree of change in the business environment has created a new challenge for industrial and service enterprises. That challenge is to determine an organizational structure that minimizes administrative costs while maximizing service to its customers.

Traditionally, managers have used organization charts to describe hierarchical structures and evaluate business decisions regarding changes to the organization. Unfortunately, these tools are no longer adequate because they do not take into account the process view and dynamics associated with administrative processes. Documenting the processes and understanding the dynamics of the business processes and activity

This hierarchical model of a purchasing process consists of five major processes

1. Select Supplier
2. Negotiate Terms and Pricing
3. Prepare Purchase Order
4. Place Purchase Order
5. Audit Invoice

The demonstration model highlights one of the powerful features of SIMPROCESS - the ability to create alternative representations of a hierarchical business process. In this model, the purchasing process object consists of three alternative organizational representations.

Alternative 1 - Functional, Centralized Purchasing
The purchasing process is performed by centralized, functional organization where the five functions are performed by staff dedicated to each function.

Alternative 2 - Product-Based, Decentralized Purchasing
The purchasing process is performed by three decentralized, product organizations where the each product organization performs all five functions for its product line.

Alternative 3 - Hybrid Purchasing
The purchasing process is performed by a hybrid organization where the supplier selection and terms and pricing functions are performed by a centralized organization. The other three functions are performed by decentralized, product organizations.

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