Track and trace your jobs!
To track progress, you need to be able to clearly identify individual jobs and attach progress flags to them. These flags also, need to be easily updated as each progress milestone is achieved. A good track and trace system allows you to better monitor what is happening and catch problems earlier.
Without proper information monitoring, you’re ‘running blind’ with your business leading to unpredictable performance and little chance of quality control.
You’ll be able to relate to the following…
Problem Symptoms
Symptoms such as…
- Don’t know where jobs are at so can’t give customers job progress reporting.
- Don’t know how well your staff or organisation is performing.
- Can’t see where the problems and bottlenecks are in your processes.
- Management making wrong or sub-optimal decisions with inaccurate information.
What you would need
In order to track your jobs and get far more control of your operation to fix bottlenecks and solve problems, you need a system that:
- Only requires you to enter data once – and pull it out for multiple reporting needs.
- Guides and ‘constrains’ data entry to enforce data integrity and prevent errors, even with low-skilled or transient staff – idiot proof.
- Thinks like you’ – vs standard systems that you have to fit into.
- Is flexible and scalable to adapt to business growth and changes.
- Can track progress and monitor the current status of individual jobs.
