Workflows Directory
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- Function: Leadership
- Function: Operations and process improvement
- Function: Quality management
- Industry: E-commerce and retail
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20 workflow templates
Annual operating budget
For an owner or finance lead preparing next year: revenue and costs by month and by team, built from this year's figures and each budget owner's drivers, every assumption written down, capital purchases listed apart, the whole checked against cash, and the questions leadership has to settle.
- Starts it
- Finance lead
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 10 outputs
App data requirements
When the requirements for an internal app leave fields or actions unclear, the business systems analyst gets one data specification: entities, fields, who reads and writes each, and every unresolved name as a question. Nothing is built or changed.
- Starts it
- Business systems analyst
- Brings
- export, notes, document
- Gets
- 9 outputs
Batch distribution trace
When the quality lead needs to know where one production batch went, they get a map from the batch record to every recorded shipment: quantities, transfers and repacking links, with each gap in the trace written as a question. It decides no hold and contacts nobody.
- Starts it
- Quality lead
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 6 outputs
Bill of lading field check
When a draft bill of lading arrives before it is issued, the documentation specialist gets a field-by-field comparison with the booking, the shipper's instructions and the packing list, with every difference marked. Nothing is issued or corrected.
- Starts it
- Documentation specialist
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 6 outputs
Business continuity plan
For an owner or operations manager: the activities the business cannot stop for long, how long each can be down and how much data it can lose, what each depends on, the fallback for each, and named owners, deputies, contacts and a test date, ready for a competent reviewer and the owner's approval.
- Starts it
- Owner
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 7 outputs
Business model assumptions review
Before you commit money to a new or revised business model, see it block by block with every claim marked evidenced or assumed, the riskiest assumptions ranked, and the cheapest test for each. You choose what to test; no projection or valuation is made.
- Starts it
- Founder
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 7 outputs
Category sourcing plan
For the buyer or operations lead who owns one spend category, such as packaging or IT hardware: its spend and suppliers on one page, where it sits on a supply-risk and spend matrix, the value levers the evidence supports, and a dated sourcing plan. A person chooses the approach.
- Starts it
- Buyer
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 7 outputs
Cost of poor quality worksheet
An owner or operations lead who senses that rework, scrap and returns are costly gets one worksheet: the failure costs already on record, sorted by category, with estimates, gaps and unresolved allocations listed. The owner decides what to fix first.
- Starts it
- Owner
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 6 outputs
Demand and supply review
The operations lead gets one monthly review from the demand plan, confirmed supply and stock: where confirmed and likely demand outrun supply, what that does to inventory, and the decision each function head has to make. Sales ambition stays separate and nothing is forecast beyond your figures.
- Starts it
- Operations lead
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 7 outputs
Inventory reorder plan
The store owner or buyer gets one plan from the latest sales and stock exports: each item's sales rate, the day it could run out, its reorder point and safety stock, what to order, what is not moving, and a draft purchase order per supplier. Nothing is ordered until a person approves.
- Starts it
- Buyer
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 4 outputs
Missed dock window recovery brief
The dispatch supervisor gets one brief when a truck misses its dock appointment and the reports disagree: each stated arrival time, the receiving cutoff, the appointment record and the questions that need a decision. It contacts no one and books nothing.
- Starts it
- Dispatch supervisor
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 8 outputs
Operations KPI scorecard
Once a month the operations manager gets one red-amber-green page for the ten or fewer measures that run the operation: each value worked out from your own exports, its trend, what moved and why in the owner's words, and the action agreed for every red. You set the measures and decide the actions.
- Starts it
- Operations manager
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 6 outputs
Packaging artwork handoff check
Before packaging artwork goes to print, the packaging owner gets a checklist that matches each file to the approved product facts, pack sizes, variants and printer specifications, with version conflicts, missing files and missing approvals listed. It writes and judges no label claim.
- Starts it
- Packaging owner
- Brings
- export
- Gets
- 5 outputs
Product recall customer contact plan
Once your business has issued a recall, the customer care lead gets the contact plan: affected customers from the order export, the approved notice word for word, drafts that offer only the remedies you run, and a tracker that counts a customer done only when the item is back or repaired.
- Starts it
- Customer care lead
- Brings
- export, notes, document
- Gets
- 6 outputs
Service roster options
For a department manager building a rota for expected occupancy, covers or events: two or three roster options side by side, with each role's need, the staff confirmed available, the periods left uncovered and the labor-cost assumptions you supplied. You verify and approve; nothing is published.
- Starts it
- Department manager
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 5 outputs
Store facts file
The person who runs an online store builds the one file every other store capability reads first: what the store sells, the facts each product page should state, the statements it stands behind, buyers' questions, policies, roles and access. Nothing on the store is changed.
- Starts it
- Owner
- Brings
- export, notes, document, pasted text
- Gets
- 2 outputs
Thirteen-week cash flow forecast
The owner sees cash week by week for the next thirteen weeks: what comes in, what goes out, the lowest point and every week below the floor they set, with each assumption written on the page. The forecast informs the decision; the owner makes it, and nothing is paid or moved.
- Starts it
- Bookkeeper
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 7 outputs
Weekly owner business brief
Each Monday the owner gets about one page built from the exports they supply: cash, last week's sales against the week before, pipeline movement, the week's commitments and a watch list, with one item to look at first. Every figure names its source, and every missing export is named.
- Starts it
- Owner
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 8 outputs
Write an SOP from how the work is done
Turn a walkthrough of how one piece of work is really done into a written procedure anyone on the team can follow: who does each step, how they know it is done, what to do when it goes wrong and when to stop and ask. The owner approves it before anyone relies on it.
- Starts it
- Operations lead
- Brings
- notes, document, pasted text
- Gets
- 2 outputs
Yard shift handover brief
The outgoing yard or warehouse lead hands the incoming lead one brief: where each trailer stands, how long it has been on site, which dock issues are open and who follows up on each. No trailer is moved and no appointment is changed.
- Starts it
- Outgoing yard lead
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 7 outputs