The breakdown of the activities of an enterprise into progressively increasing detail.
The principal technique for describing the functions of an enterprise is function decomposition. An activity can be decomposed when two or more other activities can be defined that together are equivalent to it.
Example of Function Decomposition
As an example, the process TAKE ORDER may be decomposed into the following processes:
* RECEIVE ORDER
* ALLOCATE STOCK OF BOOKS
* CHECK CUSTOMER CREDIT
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