Workflow Management

Automation - monitoring - improvement.

In the manufacturing industry, efficient management of workflows, documents, and processes is crucial for maintaining operational efficiency, ensuring compliance, and driving continuous improvement. Smart Processes offers a flexible platform designed to streamline these critical areas, enabling manufacturers to achieve digital transformation and create a real-time digital twin of their organization. This platform integrates seamlessly with your existing systems and provides the tools needed to monitor, analyze, automate, and improve business operations.

Key Features for Manufacturing Organizations

Smart Processes offers a robust set of tools to support manufacturers in managing workflows, documents, and business processes in a centralized, efficient way. From supply chain management to compliance tracking, the platform ensures smooth operations and helps to accelerate digital transformation across your organization.

Customizable User Interface

Smart Processes provides a highly flexible, user-friendly interface that can be adapted to suit the needs of your manufacturing processes. Whether you're managing production schedules, supply chain logistics, or customer interactions, the platform's customizable dashboard and layout ensure a seamless experience across departments.

Digital Transformation Tools

Transform your document and workflow management processes with built-in tools such as OCR-based text extraction, automatic document classification, and scanning applications. Directly scan documents into the platform without storing them locally, enhancing security and streamlining operations. Whether you're in the warehouse or the production floor, capture and digitize documents effortlessly with Smart Processes’ scanning apps for PC and Android devices.

Process and Workflow Modeling

Simplify and automate your manufacturing processes with the Workflow Modeler. Design and visualize production workflows, maintenance schedules, inventory tracking, and more using intuitive graphical process diagrams. Create automated processes that ensure smooth transitions between production steps, improving both efficiency and accuracy.

Form Designer

Build custom forms tailored to your manufacturing processes for capturing production data, inventory status, or quality control checks. The Form Designer helps you collect real-time data directly within the system and facilitates user interactions with the Smart Process Management Engine, allowing for efficient data entry and case progress.

Transparency and Compliance

Smart Processes ensures full transparency and compliance, critical in a highly regulated manufacturing environment. The Process Information feature provides detailed visibility into each workflow step, the roles involved, data permissions, and actions taken, ensuring that your manufacturing processes align with regulatory standards.

Role-Based Access and Permissions

Manage workflows and document access with ease using Smart Processes’ role-based permissions. Assign roles with hierarchical structures for different departments, such as production managers, quality control inspectors, and supply chain coordinators. Permissions can be customized to specific functions, allowing you to control access across various levels and departments in the organization.

Integrated Web Mail Client

Streamline communications across departments with Smart Processes’ integrated web mail client. You can link emails directly to production cases or workflow tasks, allowing you to track correspondence related to specific orders, shipments, or quality assurance. Attachments from emails are automatically classified, text extracted via OCR, and data posted directly to Smart Processes, saving time and ensuring no information slips through the cracks.

Email Templates

Automatically generate personalized email communications with email templates that pull process-specific variables in real-time. Whether you’re sending production updates, order confirmations, or shipment notifications, Smart Processes makes it easy to communicate efficiently with customers, vendors, and employees.

Automated Event Handling and Actions

Automate key actions in your manufacturing processes using Smart Processes’ event-driven architecture. You can set up events for tasks like inventory updates, status changes, or product inspections, and associate them with specific actions such as sending an alert, updating data, or assigning a task. This ensures that your workflows remain consistent and efficient with minimal manual intervention.

Job Scheduler for Automation

Automate repetitive tasks such as inventory checks, quality control reports, or production planning using the Job Scheduler. Schedule recurring actions to run automatically, allowing you to stay ahead of critical deadlines and maintain smooth operational flow in the manufacturing process.

Benefits of Using Smart Processes in Manufacturing

Optimized Production and Supply Chain

With Smart Processes, you can automate and optimize production workflows, supply chain management, and quality control procedures, resulting in faster cycle times, fewer errors, and more efficient resource allocation.

Enhanced Document Management

From purchase orders to inspection reports, Smart Processes ensures that all documents are captured, organized, and accessible in one centralized system, making it easy to track and retrieve important files while ensuring compliance with industry regulations.

Real-Time Data and Insights

The platform provides real-time data visualization and reporting tools that allow you to track progress, monitor production performance, and analyze inventory levels, ensuring you can make data-driven decisions and avoid disruptions in the manufacturing process.

Improved Collaboration and Communication

By integrating workflows, email, and case management into a single platform, Smart Processes helps eliminate communication gaps, improve collaboration between departments, and ensure that all teams are aligned with production goals.

Scalability and Flexibility

As your manufacturing business grows, Smart Processes grows with you. The platform is highly scalable, offering the flexibility to add new workflows, documents, and integrations as your operations evolve, ensuring your system adapts to your business needs.

Achieve Digital Transformation with Smart Processes

For manufacturing businesses looking to improve their workflows, streamline document management, and achieve operational excellence, Smart Processes offers a flexible and powerful platform. By providing digital tools for process modeling, document automation, and integrated communication, Smart Processes helps manufacturers boost productivity, ensure compliance, and remain competitive in the digital age.

Get started today with Smart Processes and unlock the potential for efficiency, transparency, and growth in your manufacturing operations!

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