You may not be aware of it, but there’s a chance your business is working in slow motion. Invisible barriers may be in place, causing your projects and processes to take longer than they should.
Sound scary? We have some good news for you – breaking down these blockers and speeding up your business is more achievable than ever before. In this blog, we’ll talk you through some simple ways to speed up business processes, break down barriers and unlock ultimate business efficiency.
Common Barriers to Business Efficiency
The aforementioned ‘invisible barriers’ are extremely common in growing businesses. As organisations scale up, these obstacles also grow, holding teams back from running efficiently and achieving the desired level of growth. But what are they?
Order Fulfilment
- The first barrier to business efficiency is a manual order fulfilment process. Having many steps in the order fulfilment journey that require staff intervention via multiple systems can slow things down dramatically. Transferring order data, raising invoices, accepting payments, shipping goods and even processing returns are time intensive tasks when carried out manually, and may be responsible for slowing your business down.
- Maintaining accurate records, if done manually, can also be a time-intensive task. Ensuring customer and product data is transferred across all systems with every minor change can be hard for administrative teams to keep on top of. Discrepancies in data can take a long time to resolve, and something as simple as an outdated address on a customer record can have detrimental and costly effects if an order is dispatched to the wrong location.
Finance
- Month-end close is often one of the most time-intensive endeavours for a finance team. Reconciling all figures across multiple systems is often hugely time-consuming, and disparate systems with no integration can make this troublesome task even harder.
- Reporting on financial performance after month-end can also be a difficult and laborious task, particularly when all elements are carried out manually. Pulling conflicting data from various systems like ERP, Warehouse Management, CRM & more can leave finance teams struggling to meet deadlines.
Marketing
- Marketing across a variety of systems and ensuring all data is accurately reported in the business’ CRM or ERP system is a labour-intensive task. Pulling data from social media platforms, email marketing tools and websites can take up most of a marketer’s time, taking away from time spent on lead generation and brand awareness activities.
Speeding up Systems
With so many invisible barriers slowing businesses down, there is one solution to combat them all. Systems integration is key to unlocking faster business processes, touching all areas from order fulfilment to finance and marketing.
Accelerated Order Fulfilment
- Boost order fulfilment speeds by automating stages of the order process. Transferring orders between systems, raising invoices, updating stock levels and more can be carried out automatically with integrated systems, resulting in faster order fulfilment.
Instant Database Updates
- Integrating systems allows for instant database updates, with contacts, customers, order details, product info and more syncing across your chosen systems as often as every five minutes, freeing teams from the burden of maintaining every record.
Faster Financial Close
- With systems integration, month-end processes are much faster. The aforementioned instant updates to records reduce the need for manual data reconciliation across platforms.
Rapid Reporting
- Integrated systems allow for more accurate reports. Teams able to produce these at any given moment throughout the month, with confidence that the data is accurate and up-to-date.
Marketing with Momentum
- With systems automation, marketing teams are able to reduce time spent on record-keeping and multi-system reporting, moving towards a lead-gen focused approach, prioritising the high-value tasks that really matter.
Why Besyncly?
With a customer satisfaction rating of 9.7/10, Besyncly’s developers Eureka Solutions have over 20 years of experience in detecting and streamlining inefficient processes, helping to boost business operating speed for companies across the globe. Our team designs, implements and manages your integrations, allowing you to focus on the tasks that matter while we get your new automations up and running.
With thousands of sites now live, our customers rarely interact with their integrations and prefer us to manage these for them while they work with high-value tasks and business growth activities.
Let our experts take care of your integrations to boost your business and stop your processes running in slow motion.
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