Business process automation (BPA) is the automation of business processes through technology, allowing businesses to cut revenues and increase productivity. Business process automation (BPA) is the use of technology to automate repeatable, day-to-day activities. It increases speed how work gets done by routing information to the right person at the right time through user-defined rules and actions. BPA helps organizations streamline processes such as employee on-boarding, accounts payable, contract management and more.
Key elements to identify a process for automation:
BPA supports your knowledge workers and helps minimize operational budgets, spacing up personnel to perform higher-level tasks. Clients are happier because you can help them immediately and cut down on human error. In business where relationships are important, BPA can significantly enhance human interaction and decision-making, as well as create real-time transparency.
Every day, your employees schedule appointments, request approvals, revise documents , route information, and look for status updates. In mostly businesses, people still perform these actions manually. This can be a challenge when you have to scroll through multiple email revisions, replies, and forwards to find the current version of a document. It can also be a struggle when you miss an email that gives you an approval before everything’s ready.
Automating these processes can help reduce stress. Self-automating activities remove worries about missed emails or someone taking a sick day.
You might still be on the fence about whether BPA is for your or not – and we get you. It’s still (more or less) a new concept, and there are some popular misconceptions on the topic.
Today, there are essentially no drawbacks to adopting BPA software – the word “automation” itself is synonymous with efficiency. The more of your business you manage to automate, the more your employees will be able to focus on work that matters. Meaning, successful automation can lead to…
1: Increasing Value Per Work
2: Higher Employee Satisfaction
3: Minimizing Human Error
Project managers could divide BPA into four main phases. You can drill down into more granular steps, depending on the specifics of your organization and whether you bring in external consulting for your BPA project.
