Workflows Directory
Established businesses in manufacturing
Results
79 workflow templates, showing 25 to 48
Ergonomic review inputs
For a supervisor preparing for an ergonomics assessor or a worker's complaint about a task: a task observation record of each step's movements, durations, loads and measurements as supplied, the measurements still missing, and what the people who do the task said.
- Starts it
- Supervisor
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 4 outputs
Estimate basis pack
An estimator pricing a job from drawings, takeoffs and supplier quotes gets one worksheet: every figure with its quantity source, rate source and date beside it, each exclusion listed and every gap already written as a scope question. The estimator verifies; the bid lead decides the figure.
- Starts it
- Estimator
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 4 outputs
Evaluation unit trial review
When a customer's evaluation reaches its review milestone, the account engineer and account owner get a trial-review agenda that sets the agreed use case beside the recorded results, setup changes and feedback, with every gap turned into a question and next-step options.
- Starts it
- Account engineer
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 4 outputs
Field issue handoff to engineering
When a delivered product misbehaves for a customer, the customer service lead gets one case brief for engineering: the revision and serial references, the symptoms as reported, the photographs supplied, what service has done and the questions still unanswered. It names no cause.
- Starts it
- Customer service lead
- Brings
- export, notes, document, pasted text
- Gets
- 6 outputs
Freight shortage record packet
When a receiver reports missing or damaged freight, the claims coordinator gets one packet lining up dispatch quantities, warehouse scans, bill of lading, proof of delivery, photos and the customer report, with each unanswered question listed. It assigns no fault and sends nothing.
- Starts it
- Claims coordinator
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 6 outputs
Inbound receiving exception trace
When what arrived does not match the advance shipment notice, the receiving supervisor or inventory controller gets the notice, the packing list and the scans side by side by item and lot, with missing references and questions to investigate. Nothing is adjusted and nobody is contacted.
- Starts it
- Receiving supervisor
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 5 outputs
Incident investigation and corrective actions
After an injury, near miss or property damage, the site, operations or safety manager gets the investigation written up from the evidence: a timeline, the immediate and underlying causes, actions with owners and dates, and a register that follows each action until a check shows it worked.
- Starts it
- Site manager
- Brings
- export, notes, document
- Gets
- 8 outputs
Job readiness packet
Before an order goes to the floor, the production or quality lead gets one packet: each requirement matched to its approved drawing, specification or inspection plan, with conflicting revisions, gaps and material shortfalls listed. The owners decide; nothing is approved or released.
- Starts it
- Production planner
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 5 outputs
Journal entry preparation
At month end, your bookkeeper hands the controller every proposed journal entry ready to review: balanced lines on accounts from your own chart, the arithmetic and the document behind each amount, whether it reverses, and who approves it. Nothing is posted until a person approves.
- Starts it
- Bookkeeper
- Brings
- export, notes, document
- Gets
- 4 outputs
Lapsed-customer win-back
Once a month, the owner or account manager sees which regular customers have gone far longer than usual without ordering, ranked by what each bought in their last active year, with open complaints set aside for a call and a short note drafted for the rest, using only approved offers. A person approves every note.
- Starts it
- Owner
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 6 outputs
Leadership meeting rhythm
Your chief executive gets a proposed calendar of leadership forums and written reports, built from today's meetings and the decisions left waiting: each forum with its purpose, inputs, attendees, frequency and one decision owner, and the hours it gives back. The chief executive chooses; no calendar is changed.
- Starts it
- Chief executive
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 7 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
Nonconformity record draft
A quality lead or supervisor who has spotted something wrong gets a draft record: the observation set against the stated requirement, the affected work counted from the register, and the containment options. The quality owner decides every call.
- Starts it
- Quality lead
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 1 output
Obsolete copy check
The quality lead gets the master document list set against the copies found at each point of use: which copies are out of date, which withdrawn documents are still held, and what proof of withdrawal exists. The document owner withdraws and replaces copies; nothing is changed.
- Starts it
- Document controller
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 6 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
Order size comparison
When a supplier offers a bigger discounted order, the inventory planner gets each quantity costed the same way: yearly cost, cash tied up, months of cover and storage fit. The planner chooses the quantity; nothing is ordered.
- Starts it
- Inventory planner
- 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
Policy answers from the handbook
Staff questions about leave, hours, expenses and conduct get answers that quote your own handbook, name the section, and say plainly where the handbook is silent. Anything about one person's own entitlement goes to HR, and no reply leaves until a person has read it.
- Starts it
- Office manager
- Brings
- export, notes, document
- 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
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
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