The article is based on generalization of modern approaches to the classification of business processes, additional classification features of their division are formulated, systematization of types of business processes of a trade enterprise is carried out, the authors’ reference model of business processes for trade enterprises as a basis for ensuring economic security of a business entity is proposed. Since any and all actions of a trade enterprise are accompanied by both the cost of resources and the creation of a certain result, their disbalance disorders economic security. Given that business processes are an effective tool for business management and a prerequisite for economic security of the business entity, we have identified the relationship between the business processes of the enterprise and the components of economic security
