Process Flows
Process Flows is the bridge from the company story into the operating cycles that actually create the dataset. Students should read these cycles as one connected business system: customer demand creates sales activity, design services turn some of that demand into staffed hourly work, purchasing supports inventory and operations, manufacturing transforms materials and labor, payroll supports the workforce and liabilities, and finance closes the resulting accounting picture.
The site is easiest to understand when analysis grows out of the business process. Reports, SQL, and cases make more sense after the reader understands where the process starts, what it changes, and how it finally reaches GLEntry.
The Main Business Cycles
| Process | What it means inside the company |
|---|---|
| O2C | The customer-demand path from order through shipment or service billing, invoice, cash receipt, application, and the return or refund exception path |
| Design Services | The hourly service path from a customer order line into staffing, approved time, monthly billing, payroll support, and service-margin analysis |
| P2P | The supplier-side path from internal need through ordering, receiving, invoicing, payment, and accrual settlement |
| Manufacturing | The production path from planning and component support through execution, completion, and close |
| Payroll | The workforce and pay path from scheduled work and approved time into payroll posting, liabilities, payment, remittance, and labor reclass |
| Manual Journals and Close | The accounting layer that estimates, reclassifies, and closes activity around the operating cycles |
Process Map
Read the map from left to right. The company story becomes process activity. Process activity becomes posted accounting. Posted accounting becomes reporting, analysis, and case-based interpretation.
How Process Becomes Reporting and Analysis
The most important teaching bridge in the site is this one: business process first, accounting second, analysis third. That is why the reports, perspectives, SQL pages, and cases should be read as follow-through from the business cycle rather than as separate documentation tracks.
Process to Analysis Bridges
| Process | Strongest perspective or report follow-through | Strongest case follow-through |
|---|---|---|
| O2C | Commercial and Working Capital, Financial Reports | O2C Trace Case |
| Design Services | Commercial and Working Capital, Financial Reports, Managerial Reports | Use the report libraries when you want to move from engagement staffing into billed hours, labor margin, or service revenue concentration |
| P2P | Commercial and Working Capital, Financial Reports | P2P Accrual Case |
| Manufacturing | Operations and Risk, Managerial Reports | Manufacturing Labor Case |
| Payroll | Payroll and Workforce, Audit Reports | Workforce Cost and Org-Control Case, Attendance Control Audit Case |
| Manual Journals and Close | Executive Overview, Financial Reports | Financial Statement Bridge Case |
Next Steps
- Read the process page that matches the business cycle you want to follow first.
- Then move into Analyze the Data to choose between SQL, Excel, reports, cases, and topic tracks.
- Use Reports Hub when you want a management-style view of the same business cycle.
- Use Cases when you want a guided walkthrough that turns the process into interpretation.