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What do people want to know about business automation?
Today business owners are developing discussions about business automation. This is not a random thing, because under the conditions of an economy that is increasingly market driven, it is impossible to do business with outdated methods and outdated instruments.
What is meant by business process automation?
This is nothing more than a transition of the structure from labour-intensive manual production to the use of modern technologies at work. In addition, it would also be appropriate to include the introduction of information technologies where they were not previously used. That is why the goals of automation and motives are classified in a certain way: in the first case, automation is necessary to increase the profitability of the business, in the second case – to reduce time and resource costs.
What are automation systems?
It is none other than software products and services, used in the transition from manual labor to modern IT. This means that both a complex ERP system and a standard service of an online shop is an automated system.
What does automation provide to the company?
Here it would be reasonable to specify its key functions: support of operational activities, fast and competent preparation of necessary documentation, operative getting reports on the real state of affairs in the structure, optimization of expenses on employees, maximum effective use of competence and working time of the personnel, improvement of business processes, minimization of negative influence of “human factor” on business, safe data storage, improvement of quality and speed of customer service.
Is the automation system expensive today?
This question is, rather, rhetorical. However, it should be noted that the cost of all automation has several components: the cost of the system itself, the cost of its setup, the cost of maintenance, which is performed on a regular basis.
What is the risk for the company if it decides to implement an automation system?
One way or another, the decision of the manager to implement automation leads to certain risks. They begin with budget overruns and end with employee opposition. However, any problems can be avoided by a competent definition of tasks that require automation, quality monitoring of existing programs and, of course, a thoughtful approach to the choice of the partner involved in implementation.