Basic Flowchart Symbols and Meaning

Flowcharts are the best for visually representation the business processes and the flow of a custom-order process through various departments within an organization. ConceptDraw PRO diagramming and vector drawing software extended with Flowcharts solution offers the full set of predesigned basic flowchart symbols which are gathered at two libraries: Flowchart and Flowcharts Rapid Draw. Among them are: process, terminator, decision, data, document, display, manual loop, and many other specific symbols. The meaning for each symbol offered by ConceptDraw gives the presentation about their proposed use in professional Flowcharts for business and technical processes, software algorithms, well-developed structures of web sites, Workflow diagrams, Process flow diagram and correlation in developing on-line instructional projects or business process system. Use of ready flow chart symbols in diagrams is incredibly useful - you need simply drag desired from the libraries to your document and arrange them in required order. There are a few serious alternatives to Visio for Mac, one of them is ConceptDraw PRO. It is one of the main contender with the most similar features and capabilities.

Flow chart Example. Warehouse Flowchart

Warehouse Flowcharts are various diagrams that describe the warehousing and inventory management processes on the warehouses. Typical purposes of Warehouse Flowcharts are evaluating warehouse performance, measuring efficiency of customer service and organizational performance. This type of Workflow diagrams can be used for identifying any disconnection between business activities and business objectives. They are effectively used by warehouse-related people and organizations, manufacturers, wholesalers, exporters, importers, transporters, and others. Standard Warehousing process flow diagram and standard Workflow diagram are used for process identification for further evaluating effectiveness and profitability of overall business process. Use the ConceptDraw PRO vector graphic software extended with Flowcharts solution to design your own professional-looking Workflow diagrams and Flowcharts of any types, including the Warehouse flowchart, Process flow diagrams which depict in details all steps of Warehouse packages flow. Microsoft Visio, designed for Windows users, can’t be opened directly on Mac. But fortunately, there are several Visio alternatives for Mac which will help Mac users to work Visio files. With ConceptDraw PRO, you may open, edit and save files in Visio format.

CORRECTIVE ACTIONS PLANNING. Risk Diagram (PDPC)

Risk Diagram (PDPC) - ConceptDraw Office suite is a software for Risks Diagram making. This diagram identifies possible risks in accomplishing corrective actions. With the Risks Diagram, one analyzes each action separately in a tree of all actions and develops a preventive action in response of each potential obstacles or circumstances which may be a risk.

Create Organizational Chart

ConceptDraw PRO software is greatly powerful in many fields due to the large collection of provided solutions by ConceptDraw Solution Park, among them the cost effective Organizational Chart design capabilities. Organizational Charts Solution from the Management Area of ConceptDraw Solution Park perfectly suits for analyzing the organizational structures, visualizing and designing Organizational Charts for the companies of any sizes, for creation the hotel organizational chart, hospital organizational chart, corporate organizational chart, different flow charts, time lines, and much more. Organizational Charts Solution makes ConceptDraw PRO the perfect analyzer tool for managers and administrative staff. It offers plenty of useful and convenient tools for ConceptDraw PRO users, including the set of Organizational chart templates that make the process of creation Organizational Charts on their base easier and quicker, extensive Organizational chart library of tasks-specific symbols and shapes, helpful Organizational chart examples and samples.

Marketing Flow Chart

ConceptDraw PRO diagramming and vector drawing software extended with Marketing Diagrams Solution from the Marketing Area of ConceptDraw Solution Park is the best software for quick and easy creating Marketing Flow Chart of any complexity and design. This charts created to define marketing project stages. In small business project management it sometimes generated by simple marketing project management software. Here is samples which included in Marketing Area of ConceptDraw Solution Park and it can be used as for project planning software as for project management report.

Affinity Diagram

The Affinity Diagram, also known as a KJ diagram, is a business tool invented for organization the large quantity of ideas and data. It is a part of Seven Management and Planning Tools, it is usually used right after brainstorming to sort large numbers of ideas into the corresponding groups. The Affinity Diagram helps to represent in a better way the structure of large and complex factors which influence on a problem, divides these factors into the smaller and simpler structures, and helps team members to see the patterns and identify possible solutions to problems they have. The diagrams of this type don't show the causal relationships between the factors, but they are designed to prepare the data for holding further analysis of the cause-effect relationships. Another area of Affinity Diagram usage is contextual inquiry as a way to sort observations and notes from field interviews, support call logs, open-ended survey responses organizing, etc. ConceptDraw MINDMAP software offers you the tools for easy holding brainstorming, generation ideas and creation MINDMAP Affinity Diagram.

Decision Making

Decision Making - ConceptDraw Office suite provides visual tools that are given support on the stage of the decision making. The Seven Management and Planning Tools is a set for such diagrams: Affinity Diagram, Relations Diagram, Prioritization Matrix, Root Cause Tree Diagram, Involvement Matrix, PERT Chart, Risk Diagram (PDPC).

MS Visio Look a Like Diagrams

No need for any special drawing skills to create professional looking diagrams outside of your knowledge base. ConceptDraw PRO takes care of the technical details, allowing you to focus on your job, not the drawing. ConceptDraw PRO delivers full-functioned alternative to MS Visio. ConceptDraw PRO supports import of Visio files. ConceptDraw PRO supports flowcharting, swimlane, orgchart, project chart, mind map, decision tree, cause and effect, charts and graphs, and many other diagram types.

Flowchart Symbols Accounting. Activity-based costing (ABC) flowchart

The Accounting Flowcharts are helpful and popular kind of flowcharts in a field of business, finance and accounting. The ConceptDraw PRO diagramming software enhanced with Accounting Flowcharts solution from the Finance and Accounting area of ConceptDraw Solution Park is extremely comfortable for visually explaining the accounting processes and for designing Accounting Flowcharts and Accounting Process Flow Diagrams of any complexity. The library of vector design elements included to Accounting Flowcharts solution provides you with major accounting flowchart symbols, which make the drawing process incredibly easy and convenient. The use of them for designing of such sort of Accounting Flowcharts as the Activity-based costing (ABC) flowcharts will simplify the drawing process and will allow to make these flowcharts in a few minutes in ConceptDraw PRO. Design easily your own ABC flowcharts to demonstrate in details the relations and logics of activity-based distribution the costs between the company's units and departments.

Blank Scatter Plot

This sample shows the Scatter Plot without missing categories. It’s very important to no miss the data, because this can have the grave negative consequences. The data on the Scatter Chart are represented as points with two values of variables in the Cartesian coordinates. This sample can be used in the engineering, business, statistics, analytics, at the creating the financial and other types of reports.