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BPM for Manufacturing

Leverage BPM across your manufacturing operations using the power of HighGear.

Modern manufacturing faces immense operational challenges. Notably, these are:

  • Managing accelerating rates of change
  • Driving the need to develop new business processes
  • Modifying existing workflows
  • Deploying critical processes within very short time frames

HighGear is the Lean BPM tool pioneer and provides core Business Process Management (BPM) functionality for your business. And all that is for around 20% of the cost of traditional BPMS. It also allows operational staff to design, modify, and push live critical processes in minutes and hours, not months or years.

We see three typical types of Lean Management implementations within our manufacturing client base, including:

  1. Single-process transformation
  2. Achieving agility with legacy business systems, applications/processes
  3. End-to-end automation and transformation

Continuous operational improvement for organizations within the manufacturing industry is now a reality. At least, it is with HighGear and our business process automation and management software. And, with so many benefits to automation and implementing lean manufacturing principles, there’s nothing to lose.

Operations Management

  • Design and deploy critical business processes fast. In fact, you can do it in minutes and hours and not months or years. With HighGear’s easy-to-use visual workflow wizard, you can easily create, modify, and execute workflows. Plus, you can do this with minimal training. This allows your business process model to keep up with the fast-paced demands of modern manufacturing.
  • Eliminate the need for complex coding using the intuitive drag-and-drop interface. This empowers your operational staff to take control of the process design without relying on your IT departments. Not only does this enable a quicker response to changing business requirements, but it minimizes downtime, too.
  • Create and collaborate with a central repository of knowledge and intellectual assets that can be accessed easily and shared across your organization. In turn, all of your employees will be working with the most up-to-date information, reducing errors and boosting overall team collaboration.
  • Implement version control for documents and processes to ensure that changes are tracked and historical versions are archived for reference. This provides more accountability and transparency in how knowledge assets are managed.
  • Enforce business rules and quality standards with preset business rules fully customizable to your needs. As a result, you can ensure process compliance with both industry regulations and internal policies.
  • Maintain consistency and compliance across your organization by including custom-defined operating procedures and quality standards in your workflows. Automated checks and validations also help prevent deviations and ensure that every step meets a predefined criterion.
  • Generate detailed audit trails for all of your process activities to provide a clear record of compliance with regulatory requirements and internal audits.
  • Mobile functionality allows you to streamline operations and improve productivity. HighGear’s mobile capabilities allow your team to access, manage, and execute workflows from anywhere. This helps prevent delays and can ensure proper workflow management and operational efficiency.

Supply Chain Management

  • Gain full visibility on processes and workflows in real-time anywhere in the operation. With HighGear, you can track the status of every task and workflow to get instant insights into your supply chain’s performance.
  • Ensure complete transparency through your supply chain by giving your stakeholders access to up-to-date information. This transparency fosters trust and collaboration among your suppliers, partners, and even your internal teams.
  • Reduce complexity with a single, simple-to-use BPM platform for managing tasks and workflows. HighGear consolidates all of your supply chain activities into one simple platform, which streamlines the management process and eliminates the need for multiple systems.
  • Benefit from a user-friendly interface that makes it easy for all team members to navigate and use effectively. With minimal training required to use the software, you’ll start seeing process improvement in no time.
  • Automate critical workflows and operational processes, minimizing human error and improving continuity and performance. Our software’s automation capabilities ensure that all of your tasks are completed accurately – and on time. In turn, this reduces the risk of delays and disruptions.
  • Reduce the risk of human errors by completely automating repetitive or complex processes. That way, you’ll see more consistent results and improve the reliability of your supply chain operations.
  • Adaptive technology lets you change processes as required while providing alerts and notifications to potential bottlenecks before they occur. Additionally, you can make real-time adjustments to your workflows based on these alerts, current data, and any insights into your existing system.
  • Scalable to millions of activities and tasks, multiple processes and workflows, and full globalization functionality. From smaller supply chains to more complex ones with higher demands, HighGear is here to grow with your business without compromising on performance.

Product Lifecycle Management

  • Reduce time to market through automated workflows and processes. HighGear’s software streamlines the product development stage – from concept to launch – ensuring faster delivery and a shorter time to market.
  • Converge knowledge in a central repository accessible by anyone you authorize, whether internal or external to the operation or business. This centralized knowledge base ensures all stakeholders have access to the latest information and documentation.
  • Implement controlled access to sensitive information and ensure that only authorized users can view or edit important data. In turn, your business will benefit from enhanced security measures.
  • Collaborate across all operations and locations wherever they are, with optimal interoperability leveraging people, assets, and processes. You can also provide real-time updates and notifications to team members, ensuring everyone is on the same page and can respond to changes or new information as quickly as possible.
  • Speed up productivity with fully automated processes, compliance, and reporting. You can automate your compliance checks and reporting to make sure that regulatory and internal standards are met. Plus, you can generate comprehensive reports automatically to provide insights into process performance, bottlenecks, and potential areas for improvement.
  • Reduce costs by quickly deploying business applications and processes. Our no-code automation platform allows you to design and implement workflows quickly and easily, without the need for expertise or using up valuable IT resources.

Sales and Order Management

  • Gain full visibility of your data through one repository of all of your information and data from across your operation.
  • Simplify and accelerate order entry with fully customizable forms and business apps you can design on-the-fly for use by staff, partners, and customers.
  • Enhance team collaboration through enterprise task management and communication, resource utilization, and workload visualization, as well as full visibility of where an order is in the process and who needs to execute it.
  • Full reporting using automated distributable reports, fully customizable and only allowing access to data and information each individual recipient is authorized to have access to.
  • Secure customer information and sensitive financial data with a highly secure platform providing a non-repudiable compliance log and audit trail of all activity (ISO, ITIL, NIST 800-53, SOX, and SAS 70 compliant).

Embracing digital transformation within the manufacturing industry will help your organization keep up with other manufacturing companies that are already benefiting from automated BPM.

HighGear’s workflow solutions will increase efficiencies across your entire manufacturing operation, improve Quality Control standards compliance, and reduce complexity and costs through our unique workflow automation.

Business Process Management power can be fully tapped in any process-driven area of your manufacturing operation. This includes enterprise task management that covers areas like:

  • Logistics
  • Change Management
  • Contractor Management
  • Engineering Change Requests
  • Quality Control
  • Six Sigma Compliance
  • Billing
  • Outsourcing – including Offshore and Onshore BPOs
  • Freight Requests and Shipping
  • Testing
  • Research & Development (R&D) and Innovation Management
  • Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
  • Warranty Management
  • Inventory Control

So, if you’re interested in improving the efficiency of your organization with ease through business process management, it may be time to book a demo to try HighGear out for yourself.

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