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Business process analysis and automation can help your company reduce its time consuming manual processes and eliminate paperwork, thereby increasing productivity and profits.
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Administrative, manual, processes often offer the lowest Return on Investment to the company investing in them. We regularly encounter companies who are paying out thousands of pounds every month on manual processes which with the right software solution could be fully, or at least substantially, automated thereby releasing the staff performing them and allowing them to be focused on more productive activities.
In conjunction with the obvious cost savings, software based solutions provide improved data retention and retrieval facilities as well as detailed reporting capabilities the likes of which beforehand could have only been achieved with even more manual processing.
In businesses where workflows move from one department to another we often uncover scenarios where data is being “Copied and Pasted” from a departments internal systems to another’s. A company wide, integrated system not only removes this time consuming process but also removes the human errors that are endemic to this approach and provides much improved MIS functionality.
Growing Pains?
Whilst a software solution can bring an immediate Return on Investment to your business at its current size, further and significant returns are seen as your business grows. Scaling a software solution is far easier, cheaper and quicker than employing more admin staff and relocating to larger offices to house them.
Getting Started
The first step to improving a business process is to analyse it and those it interacts with, in order to understand the activities, their relationships and the attached values. Our developers approach the software systems development process from a business perspective and then apply their technical expertise to create the agreed solution. Process analysis involves the following key stages.
Steps of Process Analysis
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Define the process boundaries
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Construct a process flow diagram
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Identify any bottlenecks
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Evaluate further limitations
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Use the analysis to build an automated solution
Business Automation Examples
There are so many possibilities when talking about business automation that attempting to list them would be near impossible as each solution is as unique as the business it is designed for. However, a combination of any one of these examples would invariably be used to achieve the desired result.
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Data Import
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Workflow Processes
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Timeline Processes
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CRM Integration
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Payroll and Accounting Operations
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Data Warehousing & Archives
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Product Inventory, Order Statuses, Customer Service
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Data Encryption
We know that your business process is unique and we will spend time to ensure we fully understand how your business works and so be better placed to tailor the process automation to maximise the increase of your profits.