administration
REGISTRATIONS are mostly mented for an overview of the stocked material, if these are goods or money does not make much difference. Payments can be also approached as a kind of material stock, where a credit is unfortunately a negative stock. In this context there is a difference in-between:

technical stock = amount of final products

economic stock = amount final products + productORDERS + DEBITS -- CREDITS

In the graphic model of ADMINISTRATION there are 3 different components, getting their orders from ORDERCONTROLsections buying and sales. These orders are payments (cheque's or cash) and the components are debit, credit and bank. There is a lot of communication in-between these components and those who are situated above the material flow in the already presented graphics. All these components are squares, except bank, because this is the (international) graphic symbol of material stocking. The squares BUYING and SALES are connected to the administration components for payments:

• BUYINGORDERCONTROL- gives orders to credit to pay bills at suppliers (cheque's) or bank (for cash transactions)
• SALESORDERCONTROL- gives orders to debet for getting money (by cheque's) or to bank (for cash transactions)

The communication for these orders are shown in the graphic models by (bi)directional connections with the numbers #1 for payingorders and #2 for collectingorders. It is quite understandable that a lot of these financial transactions are in relation with movements of material, as well internal as well as external. If there is a request of productparts for the division production (passing productordercontrol on his way!!), there will be send an external buyingorder to a supplier and an internal payorder(1)will be sended to component credit. If there is a 'regular' customer who is ordering a product, then a facture will be send to this customer and an internal collectorder(2) to component debit by the division SALESordercontrol. With an internal request, for instance if the supplylevel must be completed, the component buyingcontrol will handle this orderrouting. Although, pulses for ordering can come from different directions as well as inside or outside the organization. The difference in orderplacing also can become because of the difference in management, as treated in the paragraphs material supply and production. The next presentation will be this management in relation with ordertreatment:

• SUPPLYCONTROL- from production is a request to prod.ordercontrol for filling up the supplylevel at a desired level. The division buyingordercontrol gets this request and orders an external supplier. The orders for supplylevel can also be generated by division SALES if there is an external productorder and the capacityregistration makes clear that there is not enough material. These kind of registrations are going horizontal trough al the divisions buying, producing and selling, and getting updated on these tags. Practically means this that all the changes in information must be integrated in these infoflow. Organizations with a SUPPLYCONTROL arerestaurants, supermarkets, magazines. The last category is a submode (merging) of different controlmethods, for instance supply- and programcontroled together.
• PROGRAMCONTROL- peticular seasons can be connected with special activities for buying or selling goods. This means that there are more or less fixed timepoints for ordering. This situation is actual for conservefactory, flowerfarming and other agriculture. or with 'incidental' facts like eastern, Christmas or footballmatches. These kind of orders are coming direct from buyingordercontrol, because of the present of a suppliersregistration in this division.
• ORDERCONTROL - with the manufacturing of "customized" products there will be a placing of the order by product. This order comes directly from SALES and is popular in factories for medical machine's, house- and shipbuilding, furniture etc.

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