Supply Chain Concepts

Flowchart

Major Topic Area: quality concepts

Several different varieties of flowcharts exist. Process flowcharts are often utilized in business environments. They can be very helpful for:

• training new personnel
• continuous improvement efforts

To be effective, a process flowchart must be accurate and include:

• inputs of the process
• outputs of the process
• all major process tasks

Extra value can be achieved by annotating process tasks with key data such as process duration.

Some common flowcharting symbols are summarized below.

Symbol	Meaning
	Output, report or information
	input data
	decision tree
	process step or task

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