Workflow Optimization
Automating Your Core Processes
Manual processes may be steadily draining the vitality out of your enterprise. When your staff has to manually pull data from one part of your business and feed it into another, you are losing staff hours that can be applied to your core business needs.
Canon can support you in changing that. By streamlining and organizing your workflows, we can help automate business processes so they run seamlessly and without manual intervention.
Why Manual Processes Hurt Your Business
Whenever a process requires manual steps, such as reviewing and/or approving information, data entry, or routing data to different departments or systems, it can create delays, opportunities for error, and eat up precious time.
When you add up the number of times people do these manual processes and multiply it across the entire organization, the costs can add up fast.
Canon helps clients reduce this burden by first optimizing workflows and then automating them through an Enterprise Content Management (ECM) platform.
Cross-functional Automation at Scale
Boost Efficiency Across Your Enterprise
Canon’s automation framework helps you to eliminate silos, reduce manual work, and scale efficiency across departments.
1. Streamline and Automate Processes
Canon helps you analyze and redesign workflows to eliminate bottlenecks. We document all inputs and outputs to prepare for seamless automation.
2. Enterprise Content Management (ECM)
ECM platforms serve as the backbone of automation – capturing, organizing, and routing content intelligently across your business.
3. Workflow Automation
Automate review and approval processes by assigning tasks, setting rules, and tracking progress. Gain visibility and control over every step.
4. Intelligent Capture
Use OCR and ICR to automatically scan, extract, and index data from paper and digital documents, helping to reduce manual data entry and errors.
5. Content Distribution
Automatically deliver content to websites, mobile apps, and social platforms – formatted and optimized for each channel.
6. Security
Help protect sensitive data with access controls, encryption, and audit trails. Ensure compliance and peace of mind with the support of built-in security features.
Explore How Canon Can Put Automation to Work for You
By applying retention policies and schedules to digitized content, we can automate records management processes. This ensures the content is retained for the appropriate period and disposed of according to regulatory and compliancy requirements.
Automating contract management processes, such as contract creation, negotiation, and execution, is a huge opportunity to help save time and reduce costs. Contracts can be automatically generated from templates.
HR departments can use ECM platforms to store and manage employee records, such as resumes, performance evaluations, and benefits information. This can help keep employee data secure and allow for seamless retrieval by authorized users.
Help streamline your AP and AR processes by automating document capture and routing. Invoices, purchase orders, and receipts can be captured and indexed automatically, helping to improve turnaround time and reduce errors.