01Business automation
Connect enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), and operational systems. Automate recurring workflows and give people a clear way to handle exceptions.
Discuss a workflow challengeWe look at how work moves between people, applications, and data so that automation supports the entire process. A useful automation does more than complete an individual task: it makes the next step clear, keeps information consistent, and gives people a way to handle exceptions.
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Look for repeated data entry, delayed handoffs, manual status checks, and reconciliation across disconnected systems. Potential applications include:
Route information to the right person, keep track of decisions, and make the status of a request visible.
Connect customer, order, inventory, and financial records where supported interfaces allow. Establish data ownership, update rules, and reconciliation across applications.
Coordinate regular updates, notifications, and checks with clear triggers and completion criteria.
Identify work that cannot follow the usual path and direct it to someone who can resolve it. Plan how to recover when information or systems are unavailable.
Illustrative pilot · Not a customer case study
Illustrative pilot: after a sales record is approved in a CRM, prepare an order draft in the operational system. Validate customer and product references, route exceptions to an owner, and leave final release with the authorised employee.
Map the current handoff, available interfaces, required fields and approval rules. Identify the authoritative system for each record. Use a sandbox and synthetic orders before considering access to production.
Agree a process map, field-mapping specification, exception queue and reconciliation checks. Include duplicate prevention, retry behaviour, an audit trail and a recovery procedure in the proposed scope.
Measure manual touches, completion time and unresolved exceptions against a baseline. Test duplicate messages, missing product codes and unavailable systems. Faster processing is not a useful result if orders are duplicated or errors are hidden.
Discuss this starting point with us. Scope, cost and timing depend on the assessment; this example is not a fixed-price offer or a claim of a completed implementation.
Scope your pilot02Our approach
Understand what starts the work, the inputs each step needs, and who owns decisions. Identify unnecessary handoffs, duplicated steps, and unclear responsibilities before automating them.
Define the information that should move, when it should move, and which application is responsible for each record.
Agree what should happen when information is missing, a system is unavailable, or a person needs to intervene. Test both the normal path and these exceptions.
Check whether the workflow completes as intended and whether it still supports the business as processes change. The scope can include assessment, a roadmap, workflow design, integration, implementation, and optimization.
Scope depends on your task and existing environment. Agree the outputs, responsibilities, and evaluation criteria before implementation begins.
A map of current steps, handoffs, system dependencies, and recurring exceptions.
Proposed triggers, rules, information transfers, approval points, and recovery paths.
A sequence for connecting systems, testing the workflow, and reviewing its operation, with owners for maintenance and exception handling.
03Define a useful result
Define a baseline before implementation. Relevant measures can include the time from request to completion, manual touches per transaction, the volume of exceptions, duplicate or incomplete records, and time spent resolving failures.
Faster execution is useful when the process also produces the right outcome. Measurement should therefore consider consistency, visibility, and the work needed to maintain the automation.
When a workflow involves interpreting varied language or documents, it may benefit from AI consulting and intelligent automation.
Systems integration expertiseFor a practical starting checklist, read how to choose your first automation process.
For interfaces, data mappings and reconciliation between applications, explore ERP, CRM and API integration.
04Questions before you begin