subject: How a simple Procedure Manager application can help your business? [print this page] How a simple Procedure Manager application can help your business?
Process management, as most people associated with any kind of business would know, is the group of activities used for planning and monitoring overall performance of a process, and procedure manager is the system that helps carrying out the process. In every business setup, there are few basic requirements, which need to be fulfilled in order to run the business successfully in order to grow and develop. Process management, however, is the most important of them all. It enables the management team of a business to manage the process of their workforce better and also allows them to prove compliance.
Procedure manager or process manager, as the name suggests, is the fully hosted process management service that enables users to define, visualize, control, measure, report and improve processes. This service is modelled on the basis of knowledge, skills, techniques, tools and various systems all customized according to the type and requirement of a particular business model. The basic motive behind the implementation of a procedure manager within an organization is to improve overall productivity of the workforce. This holistic management approach focuses solely on keeping all aspects of an organisation aligned with the requirements and needs of their clients.
Procedure manager is a technology integrated system, which requires specialised skills to be designed and developed. There are many companies that offer process manager services, among which on a handful of companies delivers the service which match up to the industry standard. Nvolve Limited is an Irish based company delivering a fully hosted process management service. Procedure Manager is a huge hit with many Medical Devices and Pharmaceutical companies within Ireland and the UK. Procedure Manager is helping companies to meet their regulatory requirements consistently and accurately.
Procedure Manager allows users to create, edit and manage all procedures and match against job roles which ultimately set training plans in place for each individual employee. Admin users can also either set new procedures as awareness or set as training. Once this training is complete by the employee his/her training plan is automatically updates and reports can be generated in real time to prove this this is ideal for auditing purposes. The system also keeps users updated with all the changes with its effective Audit Trail feature. The feature is also useful while keeping a check on any old or inactive procedures. This is very relevant particularly when new employees start or when employees move job roles. This audit trail feature allows the employee to fully understand where the procedure originated from and how it has evolved over the years.
In business terms implementing a Procedure Management system can result in some notable benefits such as reaching 100% compliance levels (no need of manual handwritten process to monitor whether a trainee is compliant to undertake their job role), automated updates (training plans updated automatically when procedures are updates or when employees move job roles), audit trails (a centralized location to store, track and monitor procedures), job role management (keeping track of training plans even if employees move job roles) and simple one-click reporting (all records are kept securely online). All of these help highly regulated businesses to better manage their procedures in a simple way that can only lead to productively and profitability to be enhanced and improved in-house.
