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Business process automation is increasingly being recognized as indispensable to accelerate growth for companies. As companies transfer some of their mundane work to machines, they enable their employees to focus on and sharpen their creativity and problem-solving skills. Ultimately companies end up minimizing their costs and making their employees more productive. 

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Advantages of Business Process Automation (BPA)

There are multiple benefits that BPA brings to businesses. In the following, we have laid down some of the most important benefits:

• Increased Productivity 

• BPA increases productivity in various ways, but primarily by allowing management and employees to focus their attention and time on the tasks that they have an expertise on, while allowing the machines to take care of 

• Process Improvement

• Automation enables companies to have a detailed, structured, and clearer understanding of the process. This, in turn, enables companies to separate the individual components that are going well from those that are weighing down the process. 

• Reduced Costs

• Automation has always come with the promise of minimizing the expenses on employees. By downsizing their personnel, while ensuring that automation effectively replaces them, companies can reduce their costs substantially.

Key Areas to Automate

While virtually every department can benefit from automation, we are highlighting some of the most important ones where automation can bring an immediate benefit for a company.

Sales 

• From generating leads, to messaging customers, to tracking transactions, the process of automation can be applied in various aspects within the department of sales, thus improving the speed and efficiency of the whole process.  

Supply Chain

• Businesses can automate various aspects of the supply chain, from those involving ordering, paying, warehousing, to those managing the whole supply chain. More importantly, these aspects can be automated under a single software application. This process of automation could bring many benefits, namely by reducing the number of supply disruptions, reducing stocking issues, and increasing customer satisfaction. 

Other 

• We’ve come to realize that virtually every aspect of a business can be handled by a process of automation. Apart from the aforementioned fields, other functions of a business, such as employee onboarding, payroll and scheduling, order fulfillment, sales forecasting, etc., can also be automated.

How to Automate Your Business

There are various ways to move forward with automating aspects of your business. You could either rely on software products that can be integrated with one another, or you could choose software solutions that cover multiple aspects of a firm to keep it within one software. When a business chooses the latter - that is, a comprehensive software, such as NetSuite - everything will go through the same program and compatibility will be much easier. Switching to automation will set your company for accelerated growth with a negligible financial burden.