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What is the purpose of the flowchart?

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What is the purpose of the flowchart?


Corporate managers, CEOs, project managers, and organizational planners can use flowcharts to assess data flow. During the planning stage of any new product or company, flowcharts are commonly used to aid in the brainstorming of ideas for the development of strategies. Investors, clients, customers, business partners, and workers all benefit from flowcharts as visual representations of data flow.

Flowcharts are the most widely used type of diagram in the world. Knowing how to read a flowchart is therefore useful. They can be used for a variety of purposes, including:



Identifying defects and bottlenecks in your processes to improve them

The ability to communicate with others as well as the ability to explain a process to others

Complex processes can be visualised quickly.

Flowchart Symbols

The customary meanings of various flowchart forms vary. Some of the more frequent forms have the following meanings:

Delay or Bottleneck

For the identification of a delay or a bottleneck, this symbol is used.

Flow

The flow of the sequence as well as the direction of a process is represented by the lines.

Flow

Document

The printout of a document or a report is represented by this symbol.

Document

Terminator

The starting or ending point of the system is represented by the terminator.

Terminator

Process

Some particular operation is indicated by this process.

Process

Off-Page Reference

This symbol would have a letter inside it. It denotes the flow continues on a matching symbol with the same letter somewhere on a separate page.

Off-Page Reference

Decision

A decision or branching point is indicated by a diamond. A line emanating from the diamond denotes several alternative scenarios, each of which leads to a distinct sub-process.

Decision

Data

It depicts data entering or exiting the system. A client order might be an example of an input. Output might be a product that has to be delivered.

Data

On-Page Reference

This symbol would have a letter inside it. It signifies that the flow continues on a matching symbol containing with the same letter on the same page.

On-Page Reference


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