Writing effective flowchart could be easily done by all THINGS that can FLOW in your flow chart. Typically, you should consider having combination of these things in your flowchart :

  1. Flow of interested items : such as from "Raw Material" to "Work-in-Process" to "Finished Goods"
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  2. Flow of Information : such as "forecast information" with "existing raw material / finished goods inventory" to "quarterly production plan" (maybe via MRP system) and "Monthly Production Plan / Monthly Purchasing schedule".

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  3. Flow of Paperwork : such as from "Requester’s requirement" to "P.R." to "P.O." to "Vendor’s invoice" to "Vendor Credit Record".

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  4. Flow of Authority delegation such as flow showing "Line of Command".

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  5. Flow of Policy deployment : such as from "Customer Expectation, Company Mission, Benchmarking Information" to "Business Plan" to "Operational Plan" to "Shop Floor Action Plan" and then feed back into "Management Review" .

 

Within one single flowchart, you may have more than one out of five above-mentioned flow.

 

So, I wish you enjoy writing flowchart to best reflect your work !