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Using Workflow as a Competitive Advantage

Your business’s organization and efficiency isn’t necessarily tied to how your office looks or how amazing your website is. Your competitors can do what you do, so the ability to manage the processes and the entire operation becomes vital to your company’s survival. Potential customers will use many different criteria when deciding whether to use your company. Using workflow as a competitive advantage might just give you the edge to rise to the top. There are key metrics to watch and dial in for your workflow process.

Quality Control

You have competitors, and they do the same job as you. If they do it better and faster than you, they’ll win over the customers. Your work needs to be better than theirs in every way. Putting in quality control checks throughout the workflow process, such as order accuracy, product reliability, and correct shipping methods, will ensure that customers receive a correct and timely delivery of their order.

On Time Scheduling

The ability to take an order and deliver it on time is crucial to success. Scheduling workflow realistically will set employee and customer expectations. In an age where people can have things instantly, the desire to wait for anything is shrinking fast. Delivering what was promised and agreed upon will keep customers coming back.

Work Instructions & Information Sharing

A manufacturing or production facility needs to have specific work instructions for each job. Having a set of work instructions to reference helps the worker eliminate mistakes and the need to ask questions, thus speeding up the process. Fast and accurate work means meeting tight deadlines time after time.

A manufacturing or production facility needs to have specific work instructions for each job. Having a set of rules or instructions to adhere to helps the worker eliminate mistakes and the need to ask questions, thus speeding up the process. Fast and accurate work means meeting tight deadlines time after time.

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