
Beauty Paradise: Inclusive Gateways & Message Events in BPMN
Meet Susan Susan works at Beauty Paradise , a large cosmetics manufacturer. Her job is customer satisfaction - specifically, she handles requests from customers who want product samples. A customer calls or emails, Susan checks their loyalty status, picks the right giveaways, and ships them out. The problem? It's incredibly repetitive. Every day, the same steps, the same decisions, the same packaging routine. Susan wants to automate parts of it - but first, she needs to document exactly how it works. And for that, she needs new BPMN elements you haven't seen yet. ## When One Choice Doesn't Exclude Another In the Shoe Shop, Max faced exclusive decisions: the shoes are in stock or they're not. One path, never both. But Susan's world is different. When she picks giveaways for a customer, she might send just an eyeliner, just a shower gel, just a voucher - or any combination of the three. The exclusive gateway can't handle this. It crosses out all paths except one. What Susan needs is a ga
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