Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Advantages of Automating your Busines

Advantages of Automating your Business

In today’s marketplace one of the keys is to be able to produce more and do it better, faster and still being able to maintain a high quality standard. This will help to ensure continued business growth. Often SME’s (small and medium sized enterprises) have a challenge with this due to many upgrades or changes they would need to do for business automation are cost prohibitive.

Most SME’s will agree, however, that business automation is required for their companies to stay competitive and to continue to experience positive business growth.

Putting money aside for the moment, what are the advantages of an SME if they increase their business automation through implementation of customized web based business software applications.

1. Great reduction or elimination of time spent moving paperwork around an office or company. By automating faxing, filing, distributing and other functions, a company can save thousands of hours each year. And thereby increase productivity.

2. Automate all route tasks to eliminate wasted time of key personnel and others. This will also assist in business growth as it gives your employees more time to do the things that increase your bottom line.

3. Business automation of work flow and project status ensure that you have accurate and up to the minute reporting of where these projects are in relation to the customers deadlines.

4. Using business automation customize software to create a central location for all documentation will increase productivity as this allows everyone to find what they need immediately without having to dig through unorganized filing cabinets. This will also increase your business growth because less down time means more production time and more product.

5. SME’s often have several individuals who are responsible for maintain their customers’ information and staying in contact with them. Through the use of a central database, the SME can insure that whenever the customer information changes, order status and contact notes are available for everyone to see.

6. Last, but not least, through automation of as many systems and procedures as possible your customers are ensure a higher level of consistency when it comes to order larger quantities of product.

When it comes to an SME thinking about doing more business automation, the questions they need to be asking themselves are:

1. How long can afford to do business without automating most of our business?

2. How long will our customers put up with 10%, 20%, 30% product failure rate due to the need to automate our basic routines and repetitive tasks to ensure consistency.

3. How long can we stay in business with a flat or negative business growth if our customers find another SME who can provide them the same product and service, albeit faster and cheaper.

4. What is better, automating our company to increase our profit so we don’t have to reduce staff or reducing staff to increase our profit?

In today’s market place, the only way for an SME to stay competitive is to utilize customized web based business software applications to automate their business. Thereby allowing them to be better, fast but maintaining a higher quality stand. Keeping their current customers and helping them to secure new ones to increase their business growth.

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