Use a value chain to group a chain of processes and activities to be executed in the business solution to reach the goals of the business solution.

Link a business process of type Value chain to the root node in the business process hierarchy.

Standard procedure

1.	Click Business process modeling.
2.	Click the Business processes tab.
3.	Click Edit hierarchy.
4.	Click New.
5.	Fill in the fields on the New tab of the dialog.
	In the Name field, type a value.
6.	In the Type field, select 'Value chain'.
7.	In the Area field, enter or select a value.
8.	You can use categories to link business processes to a specific purpose. So, in one solution, you can combine business processes for several purposes. Purposes can be, for example, training, user assistance, RSAT (Remote server administration tool), or security. For each business process, you can define to which categories it belongs. You can use business process categories to: - Publish a subset of business processes to a business process library in Lifecycle Services. - Record or play task guides in another D365 FO environment. On a category, you can define a connection to another D365 FO environment.
	In the Category field, enter or select a value.
9.	Click OK.

Notes

You can also cut/copy and paste a business process. To do so, select a business process and in the Hierarchy pane, click Tools, Cut or Copy. Select another business process and click Tools, Paste.