Business process automation frees yourself and your team from the time you spend on recurring manual processes.
As the demand increases for businesses to perform complex, labor-intensive tasks, the goal is to automate as many manual processes as possible. We have distilled the many benefits of business process automation into the following 6 key points.
1. Quality & Consistency
Delivering consistent high-quality products and customer service results in happier, long-term customers.
- Quality: Automation ensures that every action is performed identically - resulting in high quality and reliable results.
- Consistency: If, for example, you have automated your customer service follow-up process, your customers will consistently experience the same level of service from your business.
This guarantee of quality and consistency means that you can start developing higher quality and more feature-filled products with little or no increase in production time and costs.
2. Time Savings
Manual tasks take time. Automation allows you to get more done in the same amount of time, reducing the number of tasks you and your employees would otherwise need to do manually.
This frees up time to work on items that add genuine value to the business. Allowing you to be more innovative and increase your employees’ levels of productivity.
3. Metric Visibility
Sustained business success is dependent on developing and implementing a superior strategy. Retaining your competitive advantage requires that you constantly monitor, evaluate, and modify that strategy - all of which are dependent on access to timely and accurate business data.
Depending on which process you have opted to automate (financial, billing, collections, sales, support), key metrics can be recorded and reported to provide you with the key information you need.
4. Improved Operational Efficiency
Efficiency describes the extent to which time, effort, and cost is effectively applied for the intended task or purpose.
Simply put, process automation reduces the time it takes to achieve a task, the effort needed to undertake it, and the cost of completing it successfully. Automation not only ensures systems run smoothly and efficiently, but that errors are eliminated and that your best practices are constantly used.
5. Governance & Reliability
The reliability of workflow automation ensures that processes essential for corporate governance are executed 100% of the time in accordance with legislation.
The consistency of automated processes means you can rely on your business processes to run and you can offer reliable processes to your customers. Keeping the competitive advantage.
6. Reduced Costs
More often than not, manual tasks are performed one-at-a-time and at a slower rate than automated tasks. Which in turn make them cost more. Automation allows you to accomplish more while utilizing fewer resources and cutting costs.
iV4's team of SharePoint experts hold decades of experience developing and implementing automated processes that cut costs, save time, and facilitate growth. Contact us to get started.
