Functional Areas in a business

marketing

Customers

supplier

HR

purchasing

warehouse

Sales

accounting

supplier sends
recipt to purchasing

warehouse sends new stock
to the store sales dept

customers take a product,
make a purchase

Purchasing buys more stock
from the supplier

purchasing asks accounting
for money to buy new stock

accounting tells warehouse
how much stock is remaining
and whether to bring more
into store

sales give
customer
a recipt

warehouse asks purchasing for
new stock to be ordered in

accounting ask sales for their
Weekly sales fig's and how
much stock is remaining

Advertising, brings in customers

accouting sends out an
invoice to the customers

customers pay the
money to the company

supplier sends new stock
to the warehouse