Luminiţa PISTOL,

Radu BUCEA-MANEA-ŢONIȘ, RocsanaBUCEA-MANEA-ŢONIȘ

� The paper is a plea for SMEs to use workflowsystems in business processes support. In thisarticle we made a literature review regardingworkflow systems, a new and very interestingtheme. Then we applied the technology on atheme. Then we applied the technology on adata structure that contains financial-economicinformation of Romanian SMES. In our case studywe created a workflow system for the RomanianSMEs interaction in a Network BusinessEnvironment. The workflow surprise the: order -invoice reference - product delivery - paymentregistration - sending invoice process betweentwo SMEs.

� According to the Workflow Management Coalition (WMC), a WFMS is a system that completely defines, manages and executes business processes through the execution of software whose order of execution is driven by a computer representation of the process logic computer representation of the process logic [WMC94]

� The business process specifies:

� 1. the tasks to be performed,

� 2. in which sequence, depending on decisions which are part of the process,

� 3. by whom,

� 4. under which constraints: time, quality, etc.

� we demonstrate how WFMS may be use by SMEs.The SMEs activity within the Network BusinessEnvironment dedicated to Romanian SMEs is verywell implemented by a data workflow datastructure, allowing changing the status of SMEsorders as the process requires, jumping from oneorders as the process requires, jumping from onenode to another. This flexibility is very difficultto be implemented in a datawarehouse. We havecreated a workflow that simulates interactionbetween 2 SMEs in the B2B environment. Theworkflow steps are presented in the table below:receiving order, invoice preformed reference,product delivery, payment registration, sendinginvoice

� We designed a program that reads process nodes as tablerecords. A node can be a decision block, a read / write block oran execution block. Browsing can be done with a simple cursor.The structure of a node records will invariably contain an index(or sequence), like a field node type, a field which will contain acondition - if a decision node - or the name of a procedure - incase execution node - as well as other information such as errorcodes or jump instructions. Conditions are descriptions ofdatabase states, actions or operations, which can modify thedatabase states, actions or operations, which can modify thedatabase or start external procedures. Actions are databaseactions formulated in SQL. Most of these queries can be dividedinto four categories: [www5]

� 1.Queries that look-up a particular experimental step.

� 2.Queries that examine the workflow history of a particular material.

� 3.Data-dredging queries, aimed at identifying bottlenecks in a workflow

� 4.Report-generation queries that fills the event history logging table

In our paper we demonstrated that a databased workflow system is a more efficientsolution for processing data warehouses,rather than using a general programminglanguage (e.g. Java, C++) and any ORM toollanguage (e.g. Java, C++) and any ORM tool(e.g. Hibernate). We designed a workflowsystem for Romanian SMEs that might be usedin their business process support.

� The work has been funded by the SectoralOperational Programme Human Resources Development 2007-2013 of the Ministry of European Funds through the Financial Agreement POSDRU/159/1.5/S/134398.Agreement POSDRU/159/1.5/S/134398.

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