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Symbol Description Usage
Comments
Band: Identifies a user role, such as AccountsPayable Clerk or
Sales Representative. This bandcan also identify an organization
unit or group,rather than a specific role.
The other process flow symbols in this table go intothese rows.
You have as many rows as required tocover all of the roles in the
scenario.
Role bandcontains taskscommon to thatrole.
External Events: Contains events that start or end thescenario,
or influence the course of events in thescenario.
Flow line (solid): Line indicates the normal sequenceof steps
and direction of flow in the scenario.
Flow line (dashed):Line indicates flow to infrequently-
used or conditional tasks in a scenario. Line canalso lead to
documents involved in the process flow.
Connects twotasks in ascenario
process or anon-step event
Business Activity / Event: Identifies an action thateither leads
into or out of the scenario, or an outsideProcess that happens
during the scenario
Does notcorrespond to atask step in thedocument
Unit Process: Identifies a task that is covered in astep-by-step
manner in the scenario
Corresponds toa task step inthe document
Process Reference: If the scenario references another
scenario in total, put the scenario number and namehere.
Corresponds to
a task step inthe document
Sub-Process Reference: If the scenario referencesanother
scenario in part, put the scenario number,name, and the step
numbers from that scenario here
Corresponds toa task step inthe document
Process Decision: Identifies a decision / branchingpoint,
signifying a choice to be made by the enduser. Lines represent
different choices emergingfrom different parts of the diamond.
Does notusuallycorrespond to atask step in thedocument;Reflects
achoice to be
made after stepexecution
Symbol Description Usage Comments
To next / From last Diagram: Leads
to the next / previous page of theDiagram
Flow chart continues on the next /
previous page
Hardcopy / Document: Identifies aprinted document, report, or
form
Does not correspond to a taskstep in a document; instead, it
isused to reflect a documentgenerated by a task step; thisshape
does not have any outgoingflow lines
Financial Actuals: Indicates afinancial posting document
Does not correspond to a taskstep in a document; instead, it
isused to reflect a documentgenerated by a task step; this
shape does not have any outgoingflow lines
Budget Planning: Indicates abudget planning document
Does not correspond to a taskstep in a document; instead, it
isused to reflect a documentgenerated by a task step; thisshape
does not have any outgoingflow lines
Manual Process: Covers a taskthat is manually done
Does not generally correspond toa task step in a
document;instead, it is used to reflect a taskthat is manually
performed, suchas unloading a truck in thewarehouse, which affects
theprocess flow.
Existing Version / Data: This blockcovers data that feeds in
from anexternal process
Does not generally correspond toa task step in a
document;instead, this shape reflects datacoming from an external
source;this step does not have anyincoming flow lines
System Pass / Fail Decision: Thisblock covers an
automaticdecision made by the software
Does not generally correspond toa task step in the
document;instead it is used to reflect anautomatic decision by the
systemthat is made after a step has beenexecuted.
External
toSAP
BusinessActivity /
Event
Unit Process
ProcessReference
Sub-Process
Reference
Process
Decision
DiagramConnection
Hardcopy /Document
FinancialActuals
BudgetPlanning
ManualProces
s
ExistingVersion /
Data
SystemPass/F
ailDecisio
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