A TOOL FOR ANALYZING AND MODELING BUSINES S PROCESSES CONTROLLED BY WORKFLOW-MANAGEMENT

This article presents a tool which includes a framework for introducin g a work-flow-management-system. Bottom line folio ws to document-orie nted analysis and modeling business processes. That is to concentrate on the object document while modeling processes. According to products during the manufacturing phases the informational ''product'' documen t also refers to a ''bill of material'' (data and document structure) and a ''production schedule'' (actions including related employees res p. application systems). The offer processing of a machine tool compan y serves as an example in order to clarify the results.