Efficient dispersion of information is the key towards operational efficiency as well as customer satisfaction. Interest groups like consumers, business partners require mechanisms that deliver quick and accurate information. Meeting such demand can put serious strain on your resources and it’s unavoidable as the impression of your business depends on it.
Many companies operate multiple systems and applications to process and store information. However, these isolated systems cause hindrance in coordination and generation of synced data across the various operating platforms. Sometimes, bi-directional data is handled manually which creates room for errors and unwanted financial risks.
Acumatica ERP offers the perfect solution to this two tone problem, by designing the cloud based platform that enables business process automation. Business process automation facilitates your staff to focus on business instead of logistics of data and makes data processing error free.
The clear advantages that business process automation has over manual processes make the former hardly comparable to the latter. Business process automation software implementation provides the functionality needed to notify, automate, integrate and create workflows for repetitive processes. Here is how:
- Reduces the cost of IT development projects
- No requirement of coding
- Easy procedures and processes to evolve with your business.
Four key ways to transform business processes into automated processes:
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1. Introduction of Advanced Notifications and Alerts
A dynamic monitoring of your business applications includes accounting for changes in data and generating alerts like sending email or business SMS to both internal and external recipients when required. This satisfies the need for real time updates that largely help to identify potential threats and opportunities.
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2. Integrating Systems and Applications
The cloud based automation system is able to dynamically transform data making it compatible with different systems which otherwise function separately. This form of software integration is achieved through code free integration tools connecting web services and APIs. The fact that these integration processes are cost effective and simple to understand, makes business process automation the only choice. Integration scenarios typically include:
- ERP integration
- CRM integration
- E-Commerce and Payment Gateway Integration
- Marketing Automation and Integration
- Courier Service Integration
- Business Service Integration
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3. Automation of Everyday Reports and Documentation
Analyzing and reviewing of critical information improves management decision making, making business reporting and documentation a vital aspect of management. Dynamically automating such procedures removes repetitive administration which wastes resources as well as makes the data more visible.
Automating the reporting tool enables the reports to be created automatically which can further be distributed and recorded as per need.
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4. Optimization of Employee Workflow
Keeping the workflow authorization process manual can become too much controlled and time consuming. ERP business process automation by Acumatica ERP can help you achieve greater efficiency by using purchase order automation, expenses approvals, price change approvals, etc.
Here’s a Success Story:
In order to reap the full benefits of ERP it is essential to opt for business process automation and Acumatica ERP provides you all that is required to transform your business and the lives of people it affects.
Watkins and Treadwell streamlined many of the company’s processes as part of its Acumatica implementation. “Before Acumatica, our version of checking inventory was a sales guy running to the warehouse to ask how many units we had,” Treadwell says. “Having Acumatica allows us to manage all our inventory from a single location. We can easily look it up in the system and have confidence that it’s accurate.”