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Exercise No. 12: Signature Regulation

Transfer the following verbal description into a BPMN:

a) Upon receipt of an invoice, signatures/approvals to perform the payment has to be collected.

b) First, the invoice has to be sent to approval (1st stage). When the 1st approver gets this message request, he evaluates the request, then documents/submits his decision and the task (Approval (1st stage) is fulfilled at this stage.

c) Returning back to the process itself, after sending the approval (1st stage), the invoice can be approved or rejected. If it is approved, it has to be send to approval (2nd stage), whereas if it is rejected the process ends at request rejected (1st stage).

d) Upon receipt of the request, the 2nd approver evaluates the request, then documents/submits his final decision and the task (Approval 2nd stage) is fulfilled at this stage.

e) Finally, after sending the approval (2nd stage), the invoice can be either approved or rejected. If it is approved the process ends at Signature/Approval obtained, whereas if it is denied the process ends at request rejected (2nd stage).