What is a workflow management system?
– A workflow is a routine or a process in an enterprise, which is monitored, controlled and supported by a software system. This system is called a Workflow Management System (WfMS). The goal of such a system is to improve the flow and structure of processes in order to produce faster and more economically, improve quality, react more flexibly to changes and to be better informed. A Unique Selling Proposition – The completely web-based CEITON Workflow system is unique in its capability to model not only simple service processes, but also complex and dynamic production processes. Hence its name: Web Workflow PPS, where PPS is an abbreviation from the German for production planning and controlling systems, a term derived from classical function-based software systems. Thus, the system not only supports individual functions such as order and inventory management, resource scheduling and machine control, but also integrates all of these functions into a coherent cost-saving process – from