Should you automate your document approval process?
Businesses often use central document repositories to make key documents such as policies, procedures and forms available to everyone in the company.
To maintain good quality and correct documents, key individuals are normally tasked with approving and then uploading new and updated documents to the repository.
In this article, we look at a simple document approval and publication process based on SharePoint, identify aspects of the process that could be automated, and then look at when automation is worth the effort.
Use IT to record third-party acknowledgements
Many organisations need to record an acknowledgement or confirmation from an external party that some activity has been completed. Examples of these acknowledgements could include: Confirming delivery of goods to a customer. Confirming that a service has been performed. Acknowledge receipt of key information. Confirm that an inspection has been carried out. Businesses will often […]
