processing of offers and orders

In every company the "order in a broader sense" go throught a status feature within the order. To put it in simpler terms, the existence of an order starts at status A (= just having been registrated) and ends at status
Z (= can be deleted). Generally, a complete sequence of all business processes possibly being applied can be formulated whereupon a general sequence of status derives.
In fact, this "generalized" sequence of status is varried at least by the following circumstances:

· the commercial habits of the applying company, e.g. order acknowledgements are basically sent or not.

· the characteristics of a special orders, e.g. order acknowledgements are only sent to orders above a certain volume of order.

· the conditions and the way of co-working with a customer, e.g. the awaiting of the confirmation of an order acknowledgement on the part of the customer or the receipt of payment etc.

All orders being in status "F" are released for the printing out of confirmation of orders and can be printed all together or selected with a few steps of choise. After the completion of a business process (from the designated status) the consequential status and therefore the next busiuness process is determinated via the characteristics of the order. That way the status defines clearly the next busiuness process.