Manual Processes Are Killing Your Productivity
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Nearly 70% of workers say that the biggest opportunity of automation lies in reducing time wasted on repetitive work.
Which repetitive tasks would workers most like to see automated? A recent study by McKinsey Global Institute found that there are three productivity killers that workers are eager to automate:
- Data Collection: Eliminate human error and manual data entry by automatically collecting, uploading, or syncing data into a system of record (55%).
- Approvals: Become more efficient by automating approvals, sign-offs, and confirmation requests (36%).
- Updates: Reduce wasted time by automatically requesting status updates and other information (32%).
Workers believe that automating these tasks will reduce wasted time (69%), eliminate human error (66%) and recover hours lost to manual, repetitive tasks that could be automated (59%).
Too expensive you say? Too big of an effort to make it happen? Not necessarily.
Crossroads RMC consultants have delivered valuable integrations and automated processes to manufacturers just like you at a fraction of the cost of other providers. Whether you’re running ION on the latest version of Infor LN or Infor LX or using Baan IV or Baan V or BPCS with no integration platform in place, there are benefits to automation and system integration for every area of your business:
Finance:
Say goodbye to typos that lead to huge problems, like paying invoices late or charging the wrong customer. That means you’ll have accurate data in your system, month-end processes run smoother and your employees are freed up to do more important tasks.
Customer Relationship Management:
When it comes to keeping customers happy, speed is crucial. You can automate invoicing, customer reports, and more to ensure that customers always have what they need. Automate report delivery from your system to ensure you always have the right information at your fingertips. And even without automating report delivery, your ERP system brings together all the information in one place, and automated data entry and extraction means it’s accurate.
Supply Chain Management:
Set up automated alerts to the right people. With ERP automation, you can trigger an email when a product has low stock or is overstocked. Keeping inventory levels just right is essential to be able to fulfill orders but not waste resources by having too much on hand.
Manufacturing Resource Planning:
Say goodbye to appending data manually. Let’s say you get a shipment of inventory that is a different color than you’d planned, which means they need different SKUs. That means you have thousands of SKUs to update, but an automated process can append data in the system unattended in a fraction of the time it’d take a person to do it.
Human Resource Management:
It might not be that hard to pull the sales data to calculate commissions for one sales rep manually. But multiply that by a growing sales force every pay period, and you’ll be grateful you automated your ERP system. Integrate with HR platforms to manage data transfers for calculating sales and commissions, even setting up triggers to do this automatically at the same time every week.
These are just a few of the possible ways that your ERP system can be simplified to produce results that save time and money. Learn more about integrations and automation from Crossroads RMC.