Ushering in a new era of growth, the world is currently amidst technological transformation that will fundamentally change the way we work and live. In order to stay relevant in today’s current market, companies will have to adopt new technologies, such as automated workflow to unearth new opportunities for their businesses. Automated workflow is a technology that automates the routing for a series of sequential steps involved in a business process. Often, a business process involves human-to-human activities such as request review and approval, as well as system automation such as sending out notification messages and posting approved transactions to an integrated system.
Here are 5 benefits of automated workflow for your business.
1. Reducing turnaround time
One of the key challenges that business often encounter is the duration of delivery time. With automated workflow, it can reduce turnaround time. Approval cycle can be sped up with electronic and automated routing of e-forms and workflow task assignment in business processes. For example, approval form can be easily accessible from email and mobile application, making it more convenient for Managers and Senior Management to perform on-the-go decision making. Those in managerial level can focus more quality time on key managerial activities that help spur company's growth, instead of spending time on mundane data collection, reporting, and following-up on disjointed processes — which are better done by automation.
Turnaround time is also reduced from elimination of issues introduced by wrong routing of approval, which is often witnessed from a manual form routing process (whether through emails or physical documents). Not only that, automated workflow also improves efficiency. More automation in a workflow equals shorter delivery times, optimizing business operations while boosting productivity.
2. Simplify business processes
The opportunity for business process re-engineering is made possible by improving business process flows. When opportunity to simplify business processes came knocking on the door, business processes that have been carried -out for years are possible to be fully optimized by automated workflow. For example, elimination of the “checker” role from a process as electronic form will have the capability to automatically enforce form input validation prior to a request being completely submitted.