Flowcharts

The Flowcharts Solution for ConceptDraw DIAGRAM is a comprehensive set of examples and samples in several different color themes for professionals that need to graphically represent a process. Solution value is added by basic flow chart template and shapes' library of Flowchart notation. ConceptDraw DIAGRAM flow chart creator lets one depict processes of any complexity and length, as well as design the flowcharts either vertically or horizontally.

The Flowcharts solution contains 13 examples and 3 libraries containing 74 vector graphics and icons, to allow you to create professional-looking documents.

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Flowchart Examples

There are a few samples that you see on this page which were created in the ConceptDraw DIAGRAM application by using the Flowcharts solution. Some of the solution's capabilities as well as the professional results which you can achieve are all demonstrated here on this page.

All source documents are vector graphic documents which are always available for modifying, reviewing and/or converting to many different formats, such as MS PowerPoint, PDF file, MS Visio, and many other graphic ones from the ConceptDraw Solution Park or ConceptDraw STORE. The Flowcharts solution is available to all ConceptDraw DIAGRAM users to get installed and used while working in the ConceptDraw DIAGRAM diagramming and drawing software.

Example 1: Flowchart — Invoice Payment Process

This diagram was created in ConceptDraw DIAGRAM using the combination of libraries from the Flowcharts Solution. An experienced user spent 10 minutes creating this sample.

An invoice or a bill is a type of commercial document the seller provides for the buyer together with purchase after the fact of sale transaction or before purchase with indication the payment terms. It contains the full information about the products bought by the customer, their titles, article numbers, quantities, prices on the moment of sale, and discount if it was offered. The use of ready ConceptDraw process, decision, terminator and other vector objects, as well as ConceptDraw connectors to create a Flowchart diagram is an intuitive and time-saving solution. This sample of flowchart describes an invoice payment approval process. The diamond objects represent the decision points with questions that need an answer "yes" or "no". The answer uniquely determines the next step at the process flow, thus if an invoice doesn’t meet requirements, it is returned to the supplier, otherwise the process continues; if all required information and approvals are included, an invoice is placed to the payment queue and then processed, and so on.

Example 2: Flowchart — Product Life Cycle Process

This diagram was created in ConceptDraw DIAGRAM using the combination of libraries from the Flowcharts Solution. An experienced user spent 20 minutes creating this sample.

This flowchart sample provides a structure for a business analysis that identifies a set of common stages in the life of a commercial product. The product life cycle lets to reveal the set of common stages at the life of different commercial products. So, it allows to represent the product's lifespan and the stages through which the given product goes during its lifespan, beginning from the time when it was thought and until the moment of its elimination from the industry. Typically, there are identified four stages of a product's life cycle: introduction, growth, maturity, and decline. This diagram is visually divided by blocks that describe the life cycle phases: Proposal and Initial phase, Project Management phase, Operations and Production phase. It is a common way to separate visually the information. To easier reading of the sample flowchart process definition, each kind of object has not only its own generally accepted form but also its own color.

Example 3: Flowchart — Selection Sorting Method

This diagram was created in ConceptDraw DIAGRAM using the combination of libraries from the Flowcharts Solution. An experienced user spent 15 minutes creating this sample.

The Flowcharts are convenient and widely used for describing different kinds of mathematical and computer science algorithms. The algorithm is a sequence of actions, which strict implementation leads to the solution of a given problem. The algorithms are used for the data processing, calculation, and automated reasoning. This sample shows the flowchart diagram of the Selection sorting method and results of its application. The selection sorting method is an algorithm of ordering the elements at the list, it lets to put the elements of a list in a defined order, typically are sorted numeric and lexicographical data. This procedure flow chart example describes the step-by-step procedure for calculations starting from the initial state to the final state. At the left side is represented the input array - five numbers placed in random order, and at the right side you can see the final result - sorted array of these numbers in order of increasing.

Example 4: Flowchart — Food Security Assessment

This diagram was created in ConceptDraw DIAGRAM using the combination of libraries from the Flowcharts Solution. An experienced user spent 15 minutes creating this sample.

This sample shows the flowchart of a food security assessment and was drawn on the base of illustration for the article "Climate change impact on China food security in 2050" from the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences website. The food security is the set of conditions providing for all people the permanent physical and economic access to the food at any time and in quantity sufficient to meet their individual food needs, and allowing them to lead healthy and active lifestyle. The significant changes of climate and extreme natural phenomena negatively influence on the agricultural sector and consequently on the food security. Each flowchart symbol you see on this example has its own application, shape, and color. You can see a legend, which is an integral attribute of many flowcharts, including this one, it helps to clarify the purposes and meaning of all kinds of symbols used on a given flowchart.

Example 5: Cross-functional Flowchart Stages of Personnel Certification

This diagram was created in ConceptDraw DIAGRAM using the combination of libraries from the Flowcharts Solution. An experienced user spent 10 minutes creating this sample.

This sample of flowchart diagram shows the common scheme depicting the stages of the personnel certification process. The personnel certification is a certification issued for the person in result of defined set of executed actions, which confirms and assures its qualification to perform some job or task. The certification is typically carried out within a specific system and according to the chosen scheme. This Cross-functional flowchart includes three stages: preparatory stage, certification stage and final stage, which are actual for certification in any field of personnel activity. Each stage contains the chain of process steps that need to be executed. For additional clarity, the part of diagram corresponding for each stage is uniquely colored and the objects belonging to varied stages also differ by color filling. The similar diagrams can be considered as simple and clear instructions represented in a visual and clear form, easy for perception and comprehension by each person.

Example 6: Cross-functional Flowchart — Order Processing

This diagram was created in ConceptDraw DIAGRAM using the combination of libraries from the Flowcharts Solution. An experienced user spent 10 minutes creating this sample.

This Cross-functional flowchart demonstrates the order processing. The order processing is the main step of order fulfillment, it is a process or a work flow that includes the precise picking of items according to the order, their packing, as well as delivery of the packed order to a shipping carrier. The ordering process is executed by the distribution centers and can slightly differ from the company to company, because each distribution center has its own unique priorities and requirements, and so the order process can contain some additional operational procedures determined by specific factors. This diagram is a vertically arranged Cross-functional flowchart designed in vivid color gamma. It is no matter for ConceptDraw DIAGRAM flowchart software, what flowchart you are going to draw -vertically or horizontally arranged, it offers you the complete set of drawing tools and ready-made vector objects for designing diagrams of any of these two types for your own choice.

Example 7: Flowchart — Import Process

This diagram was created in ConceptDraw DIAGRAM using the combination of libraries from the Flowcharts Solution. An experienced user spent 10 minutes creating this sample.

This sample of flowchart describes the import process using the flowchart. Import is a delivering of purchased foreign goods and technologies to the country across the border with compliance of legislative standards, with a goal of its realization and application within domestic market or transit to the third country. The international trade helps countries to expand production and to ensure delivery of products, the manufacturing of which at the importer's country is impossible or inefficient. The process of importing goods is a very important process at the life of society, it is governed by the laws and assumes the conclusion of international contracts or trade agreements between the importing and exporting jurisdictions. The volume of imported goods depends directly on the country's foreign exchange resources, as well as revenue from the export of goods. The import to the receiving country is at the same time the export from the sending country. On the importing as well as exporting goods are usually set defined custom taxes and quotas.

Example 8: Cross-functional Flowchart — Credit Approval Process

This diagram was created in ConceptDraw DIAGRAM using the combination of libraries from the Flowcharts Solution. An experienced user spent 10 minutes creating this sample.

This vertical Cross-functional flowchart example illustrates the credit approval process. The credit is a well-known term in commercial trade, which indicates the delayed payments for purchased goods and determines the terms of payment. Typically, the credit is offered at the compliance the set of clearly defined conditions, such as the person's financial stability, availability of a certain packet of documents, etc. The arrow's direction shows the order of execution the functions in a process. The process depicted on this diagram was drawn from the top down, that is a commonly used direction, the presence of return to the previous function is also acceptable on Cross-functional flowcharts. You can observe four swim lanes on this diagram, which titles are indicated at the top of flowchart: Customer, Sales, Management, and Credit Department. The swim lanes provide an extra dimension allowing to place each process step to specific category, in fact what has been done on this diagram.

Example 9: Flowchart — Planning Process

This diagram was created in ConceptDraw DIAGRAM using the combination of libraries from the Flowcharts Solution. An experienced user spent 10 minutes creating this sample.

This sample flow chart depicts consistently all steps of the project planning process and is read from the top down in direction that is indicated with arrows. The project planning is one of the major part of the project management and there are many tools allowing to help project managers in planning projects, as well as managing them. Among them are flowcharts, which let display the flow of actions necessary to be executed to achieve the main goal or to meet a particular task. The use of various types of diagrams and flowcharts lets to plan in details the stages of project implementation and to represent them clearly, as well as to visualize the project state on the stage of implementation, to report the project progress and results in a visual form. Made with flowchart creating software ConceptDraw DIAGRAM using a single color, this sample flowchart process diagram however is very bright and eye-catching due to the use of yellow, which is famous as winnable in most cases.

Example 10: Flowchart — Project Management Life Cycle

This diagram was created in ConceptDraw DIAGRAM using the combination of libraries from the Flowcharts Solution. An experienced user spent 10 minutes creating this sample.

This Flowchart example shows the project management life cycle. It attracts attention by its clarity of presentation the information, at simple and at the same time informative form. The project management is an extensive and widespread field for studying and analysis. At this, the management of each specific project is an individual process with its specifics and is realized according to the individual concept. We can observe the processes at the different fields and knowledge areas related with a project management, such as Project Quality Management, Project Integration Management, Project Cost Management, Project Time Management, Project Scope Management, Project Human Resource Management, Project Risk Management, Project Stakeholders Management, Project Communications Management, Project Procurement Management. The processes at all these areas are executed with a goal of achievement effective project management programs. There are allocated five process groups, which include 47 known project processes, these groups are: initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing.

Example 11: Flowchart — Website Launch

This diagram was created in ConceptDraw DIAGRAM using the combination of libraries from the Flowcharts Solution. An experienced user spent 10 minutes creating this sample.

This Flowchart sample shows the website launch. A website typically has complex structure and is hosted on a web server available via Internet or a private local area network. As for the website structure, it is composed from the set of related web pages represented as text written according to the formatting instructions of HTML. The pages are organized in a hierarchy, have own web addresses (URLs) and are accessed with HTTP protocol. This sample of flowchart represents all stages of website launch, regardless the complexity of its internal structure, beginning from the domain registration, solution the questions related with server and hosting, creation the site prototype, carrying assurance and testing, and ending by the final site launch. You can also see detailed filling of each of these stages, i.e. the steps and actions that need to be performed on each stage. The color separation of phases on this diagram helps to construct a clear structure, to improve its perception and to define the boundaries of each stage at a glance.

Example 12: Flowchart — Synthetic Object Construction

This diagram was created in ConceptDraw DIAGRAM using the combination of libraries from the Flowcharts Solution. An experienced user spent 10 minutes creating this sample.

This sample designed with help of ready-made vector objects from the libraries of Flowcharts solution for ConceptDraw Solution Park, demonstrates the planning scheme for the construction of a synthetic object. The Computer-generated imagery (CGI) is the use of the computer graphics for creation the illustrations and images for different kinds of art, video games, films, printed media, television programs, commercials, simulators, for creation scenes and special effects in films and television programs, and so on. The represented visual scenes can be as two-dimensional (2D) as three-dimensional (3D), they can be also static or dynamic. This is a quite complex flowchart with great number of objects and a lot of decisions on the way across the flowchart, when you need to make the quick and simple choice "yes" or "no" before going further. The visual color division of objects on this flowchart helps to see the type of object with one fleeting look.

Example 13: Flowchart — Human Resource Management Process

This diagram was created in ConceptDraw DIAGRAM using the combination of libraries from the Flowcharts Solution. An experienced user spent 10 minutes creating this sample.

This Flowchart example is dedicated to the representation the principles of a Human resource management (HRM) process. The HRM is a management process of the enterprise's staffing, directed on the attraction and selection the qualitative staff, assessment, training, as well as rewarding of employees and retaining the valuable professionals. Among others, it includes the overseeing for the compliance with employment and labor laws. The Human resource management is an important process for any enterprise, it greatly influences on the company's staff composition and ultimately on the improvement a work productivity and enterprise's success. It is a field of activity, which requires knowledge, good training and great experience in a field of economics, management and also psychology. The HR managers use the set of specially developed methods at their work and individually selected methods for each specific case help them to do their work efficiently and to move at the right direction.