Business Process Management (BPM) enables companies to monitor business scenarios and processes, to adapt them continuously to new strategies, and thereby manage the current economic conditions effectively. With a comprehensive perspective ranging from modeling to monitoring, BPM bridges the gap between business-management requirements and their IT implementation.

The efficiency of business processes is crucial for long-term corporate success. Organizations that want to survive in a competitive environment need transparent business models that can be adapted at any time. In order to implement innovative business strategies successfully, business-management concepts need to be transferred efficiently to the IT environment. As well as the question of suitable, process-oriented organizational structures and minimizing interfaces within process workflows, the automation of subprocesses that always run in the same way is one of the main tasks of process management.

Business Process Management (BPM) activities can be grouped into six categories: vision, design, modeling, execution, monitoring, and optimization.

SAP Business Workflow enables the design and execution of business processes within SAP application systems: Workflow processes are delivered as content in the SAP Business Suite. Additionally, customers can not only enhance those workflows provided by SAP, but they can also create their own workflows. SAP Business Workflow is at the heart of the SAP system. Through integration with Organizational Management and standard SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence for reporting and analysis, this enables you to manage business processes which fit into your organization, the application, and which can be used for auditing and business process compliance.

Our extensive experiences in the field of document management within processes which require tight connections with the SAP business-information system enabled us to start thinking about introducing of our own BMP solution on the basis of ABAP and SAP Business Workflow technologies. 

The solution is composed of two principal modules:

1. Central or »CORE« module common to all the processes. It includes all important functionalities common to all BPM (Business Process Management) modules by configurations through drop down menues (described are some functionalities):
• Definition of roles within the process (who does what).
• Definition of scenarios (role schedules).
• Definitions of schemas (possible actions of respective role).
• Definitions of carriers in the scenarios (linkage role – end user) using the matrix.
• Definitions of deputy carriers.
• Escalation definition (limits for respective roles to execute a task).
2. »Vertical solutions« - e.g. solution for incoming invoice verification/approval, solution for travel order approval, etc. Vertical solutions are tailored for data transfer from respected SAP transactions to »CORE« module, in both directions, depending on process type.

Our extensive experiences in the field of document management within processes which require tight connections with the SAP business-information system enabled us to start thinking about introducing of our own BMP solution on the basis of ABAP and SAP Business Workflow technologies.