You know the adage "time is money." It's true. Every process within your business requires employee time to execute, and some cumbersome manual tasks consume a great deal of company resources. And simply put, that means saving time makes good business sense.

It's why Business Process Automation (BPA) is one of the hottest concepts in business today.

You can automate operations using the cloud-based service Power Automate, which automates repetitive PC chores and helps streamline your business. One of Power Automate's distinctive features is its ability to handle itself and other Microsoft Power Platform components.

Power Automate allows you to construct three types of workflows: Button Workflows, Scheduled Workflows, and Automated Workflows triggered by clicking a button or when a particular event occurs. You can automate a wide range of operations, including intricate business procedures for data collection.

Microsoft Power Automate is a great place to start if you don't know how to program but want to benefit from cloud automation.

Business Process Automation (BPA) Defined

Team members need help to reduce error margins and delays and enhance inefficient systems when your organization processes enormous volumes of data and completes numerous activities daily. You can create, manage, and improve workflows and elevate organizational effectiveness and productivity with the help of business process automation.

Business Process Automation automates routine and repetitive business operations often performed manually. With BPA, you can rapidly and effectively execute repetitious labor and transition to paperless operations, ranging from complex workflows to straightforward consumer responses.

It entails automating tasks in product development, sales, human resources, and other areas with vast amounts of raw data and documentation. By adding business process management software (BPMS), you can easily manage new workflows that business process automation produces.

Top 6 advantages of using a Business Process Automation (BPA) solution

You can benefit from what BPA software offers after you know which procedures can and cannot be automated and how to create dynamic business process flows for your team.

The following are the top 6 advantages that your company can gain from automating your business processes:

Increased production and efficiency

Your company becomes immediately more efficient and has fewer errors when implementing a new automation solution that removes the potential for errors.

You can eliminate bottleneck jobs and speed up more high-level business processes between business units, team members, and everyone else in your organization by eliminating the daily cumbersome and painful manual processes your team performs.

Reduced costs and time

Automation benefits your company's bottom line, especially for teams that handle their duties through traditional paper-based procedures. Since automating processes speed up internal operations, it's simple to save time and money on the resources required to complete such processes.

Additionally, you can reassign staff previously working on manual tasks to more crucial tasks.

Simple document and data handling

Employees who use manual methods may misplace printed or sent emails, written correspondence, spreadsheets, and other materials. Additionally, transferring data or doing calculations from one data source to another adds time and increases the possibility of human mistakes.

With process automation, all your data and documents are kept in one place, streamlining document management and making organizing and retrieving them easier.

Transparency and openness

Since automation solutions help guarantee that staff follows best practices and governance enforcement, you won't need to give your team extra support.

Thanks to data collection, reporting, and analytics capabilities, you can access data dashboards that provide insight and transparency into workflows across the organization, enabling better-informed decisions.

Process compliance and standardization

Your team members might not always abide by the rigorous rules of automation processes on who can update or make changes to documents. No problem. You don't have to worry about missing steps when BPA is in place because the system includes the procedure. You can create productive automation of your digital workflow to ensure the appropriate information goes to the right person at the proper time.

That means organizations can easily log names, dates, and assignment information and track who uses respective data sets. You can construct audit trails and show compliance by documenting such information.

Increased customer and employee happiness

Employees will be much happier on your team if you add an automated solution to your process because it will make it easier for them to execute many of their daily tasks without making mistakes. Employees can flourish in a frictionless atmosphere created by automation. Quickly completed manager permissions mean your staff can concentrate on projects crucial to driving innovation in business choices.

Why use Business Process Automation (BPA) flows?

People can follow the flow of a business process to complete their tasks, which offers a streamlined user experience that guides users through the procedures established by their company for encounters that require resolution. You can customize the user experience so that users in various security roles have an encounter most appropriate for their work.

With business process flows, companies can create instructions for employees to follow to achieve desired results. Thanks to these steps' visual indicators, people can see where they are in the business process. Plus, business process flows lessen the requirement for training because new users don't need to concentrate on which table to use. They can follow the process as a guide.

Business process flows can be set up to complement popular sales approaches, which will assist your sales teams in producing more significant outcomes. Business process flows for service organizations can speed up the onboarding of new workers and help them prevent errors that might leave clients dissatisfied.

Ultimately, with Business Process Automation, you'll benefit from pleased clients. And happy clients mean repeat business – and greater profits.

Ready to discover how Business Process Automation (BPA)can improve your efficiency?

Liberty Grove can help you analyze and evaluate your practices to determine which processes can be automated to improve efficiency and productivity throughout your organization.

Contact Liberty Grove for a complimentary consultation on how Business Process Automation can increase your employees' productivity and elevate your organization.

About the author

Liberty Grove Software is an established Microsoft Partner that focuses on providing customers with sales, service, and support for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central/NAV solutions and training and upgrades.

Over more than 25 years, Liberty Grove has assisted hundreds of customers with businesses ranging from small to mid-sized to Microsoft Partners in implementing, training, customization, and upgrading Microsoft Dynamics ERP solutions.

The organization is one of only a few companies worldwide that Microsoft recognizes as qualified to provide Business Central/NAV Upgrade Service Centers.