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I'm not sure that there really is a plain English word. It's a kind of technical concept. "A workflow" is "one kind of thing you do".

So if you're washing laundry, you have "a workflow" that involves several steps: sort the laundry, put the laundry in the washing machine, add soap, run the machine, remove the clothes, and dry them. That's your "workflow".

That workflow is similar to, but differs from, washing the dishes in an automatic dishwasher: You probably add scraping the plates, but skip sorting the items. You still put things in the machine, add soap, run the machine, and remove the dishes, but drying might have been done by the machine.

I can't think of another word that describes the abstract concept of an orderly process of things you do to accomplish a particular goal. Can you?