Workflow complexity

[Dart, Jocelyn]

Hi Michael,
As well as the other great suggestions sent to you so far:
 
Where you have plant or country-specific scenarios, one tactic is to create
separate workflows for those scenarios and use start conditions to decide
which workflow will be started based on country/plant.
 
This would make each individual workflow simpler, and you could still
use subworkflows and single-step tasks in multiple workflows where you
need commonality.
 
Regards,
        Jocelyn Dart
Consultant (SRM, EBP, Workflow)
and co-author of the book
"Practical Workflow for SAP"
SAP Australia
email: jocelyn.dart at sap.com
phone: +61 412 390 267
fax:   +61 2 9935 4880
 
 
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Pokraka, Michael [mailto:michael.pokraka at kcc.com]
Sent: Thursday, 29 August 2002 4:59 AM
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Workflow complexity
 
 
Greetings all,
We are on the way to building what I've affectionately dubbed 'the workflow
from hell'. It is quite complex and involves around 35 or so different
departments (some are plant or country-specific, thus actually even
multiplying those step by no. of plants). We're still planning, but I can
already foresee a monster with steps numbering in the 100's once we start
adding background tasks, deadline monitoring etc.
 
My request for info on this list: I'd appreciate anyone who could provide
some feedback with making huge workflows, specifically any pitfalls,
stability issues etc. I know it will be a maintenance monster (and so does
the client, but the client is always right :-)
Sub-workflows will be used wherever possible, but some of the branching
logic forces most of the steps into the master W/F.
 
Thanks
Michael
 
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