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53 workflow templates, showing 25 to 48
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
Payroll preparation and timesheet review
Before each payroll run, the owner gets one sheet built from the timesheet and roster exports: hours by person and type, every missing punch and odd entry raised as a question, and an estimated total. Nothing is keyed in, submitted or paid until a person approves.
- Starts it
- Payroll clerk
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 7 outputs
Premortem before a decision
Before your team commits to a plan that is hard to undo, such as a move, a launch or a new system, a short workshop pictures it a few months on, already failed. The record ranks the reasons, turns each top risk into a check, a warning sign and an owner, and leaves the go decision with the owner.
- Starts it
- Owner
- Brings
- notes
- Gets
- 4 outputs
Preventive maintenance plan
For one site, the facilities or operations manager gets every piece of equipment ranked by failure cost, an approach for each (run to failure, scheduled or condition-based), a dated calendar of tasks from the maker's guidance and the failure history, the spare parts to hold and the downtime measures to track.
- Starts it
- Facilities manager
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 6 outputs
Price change review
Before prices change, the owner or finance lead gets one review: the margin on each product or service from the sales and cost exports, how costs have moved, what each proposed price does to sales and gross profit across a stated range of customer responses, and dated competitor prices. It recommends no price.
- Starts it
- Owner
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 7 outputs
Process map and bottleneck review
Map one process step by step: who does each step, how long work waits and how long it takes, where it is handed over and where it gets sent back. Then find the one step that caps how much gets finished, and what to try there first. The owner decides what changes.
- Starts it
- Operations lead
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 7 outputs
Product configuration margin sheet
When sales prepares a quote for a product configuration, the commercial owner and finance lead get one worksheet: the quoted price, the costed bill of materials, assembly and freight, and the allocations, with every unquoted part, one-off charge and uncertain volume listed as an open assumption.
- Starts it
- Sales operations coordinator
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 5 outputs
Production cost variance sheet
At period close the plant controller gets one sheet that separates material, labor and overhead differences from standard, by order and by product, with missing actuals and changed standards flagged. Each difference is a question for operations, never a cause.
- Starts it
- Plant controller
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 6 outputs
Production schedule rebuild
When orders or forecasts change, the production planner gets a draft build schedule from open orders, work-centre capacity and material availability, with every overload and shortage listed, not quietly fixed. The planner checks feasibility and approves the changes.
- Starts it
- Production planner
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 7 outputs
Range margin by channel review
When a wholesale offer or a promotion changes the economics of a range, the finance lead gets a margin worksheet for every product in every channel, showing which cost layers are in each figure and which gaps are still open. It invents no cost and changes no price.
- Starts it
- Finance lead
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 5 outputs
Repeat incident pattern review
A safety lead with a year of incident records and earlier actions gets them compared in groups: confirmed causes, what was done before, and where incidents recur, with questions for the team. A competent person judges what the pattern means.
- Starts it
- Investigation lead
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 6 outputs
Safety walk follow-up
After a safety walk, the manager gets a follow-up brief that ties each concern workers raised to the commitment the manager made, its owner and due date, and the message to give back. Gaps arrive as questions, never as guesses.
- Starts it
- Site manager
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 5 outputs
Service visit work packet
Before a planned visit to a turbine, inverter or terminal asset, the maintenance supervisor gets one packet built from the logs and approved scope supplied: reported symptoms, previous visits, open parts requests and access questions. It judges no condition and sends nothing.
- Starts it
- Maintenance supervisor
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 7 outputs
Site safety induction pack
For one named site, the site, facilities or people lead gets an induction built from that site's own emergency arrangements, rules and hazards, with a short check of understanding, a sign-off record for each person and refresher dates by role. A competent person approves it and delivers it.
- Starts it
- Site manager
- Brings
- export, notes, document
- Gets
- 6 outputs
SOP exception capture
Turn what your most experienced person does with the awkward cases into an exception register for one procedure. Once the owner approves it, every colleague handles those cases the way your best person does.
- Starts it
- Operations lead
- Brings
- notes, document
- Gets
- 2 outputs
Stakeholder and decision rights map
Before kickoff, the project manager holds one map of everyone the project touches: each group placed by influence and interest, every key decision with exactly one accountable owner, the decision makers still missing, and who hears what, when and from whom. The sponsor confirms every decision right.
- Starts it
- Project manager
- Brings
- export, notes, document
- Gets
- 6 outputs
Stock count reconciliation
After a physical count, the bookkeeper and the warehouse or store lead get every item counted beside the quantity and value in the books, each difference in units and money, what to check for it, and the items to recount. Nothing is adjusted until a person approves.
- Starts it
- Bookkeeper
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 5 outputs
Supplier bill review and payment-run preparation
Before each payment run, the person who approves it gets one sheet: every supplier bill checked against its purchase order and what was received, duplicates and changed bank details stopped, credits shown, and a proposed run with its total. Nothing is paid until a person approves.
- Starts it
- Payables clerk
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 7 outputs
Supplier issue notice
When a supplier bills for more than was ordered or received, or falls short of an agreed delivery or quality target, the buyer gets a formal notice ready for approval: each problem set against the record, the evidence listed, what the supplier must do and the date to reply by. A person approves and sends it.
- Starts it
- Buyer
- Brings
- export, notes, document
- Gets
- 3 outputs
Supplier spend analysis
From one accounts-payable export, the finance or operations lead sees where the money goes: spend cleaned and grouped by category and supplier, the few suppliers that take most of it, the tail, needs bought from several suppliers and consolidation opportunities, each with its figures. A person decides what to act on.
- Starts it
- Finance lead
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 10 outputs
Temporary change register
For a site or operations manager with temporary changes to equipment, layout or process still in place: a register of every change with its expiry date, the checks still outstanding and the procedures and training it touches, ready for the competent person who decides what happens next.
- Starts it
- Site manager
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 7 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
Training needs analysis
For one team, the HR lead or team manager gets what each role must be able to do, how many people can do it now, where the team falls short, and the training to arrange first, with who arranges it and by when. Counted by role, never a rating of a named person.
- Starts it
- Team manager
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 5 outputs
Vendor insurance certificate check
For a property manager collecting insurance certificates from service vendors: each certificate's fields set beside the requirements the team already approved, every stated expiration date listed, and draft requests for what is missing. The manager reviews gaps with the insurance adviser before accepting anything.
- Starts it
- Property manager
- Brings
- export, notes, document, pasted text
- Gets
- 9 outputs