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Digital Process Automation: Replace Repetitive Digital Workflows With Intelligent Automation

MLT can digitize and automate appropriate parts of your workflows, making processes faster, more consistent and easier to monitor, while retaining human review where it is necessary.

Solution Digital Forms · Business Rules · Approvals · Notifications 5 min read
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Split desk scene: on the left, stacks of paper forms, sticky notes, a calculator and a cluttered spreadsheet; on the right, a clean desk with a laptop and tablet showing a digital request workflow auto-routed for approval

Replace Repetitive Digital Workflows With Intelligent Automation

Many business processes still depend on manual steps, emails and spreadsheets, even when the rest of the organization has gone digital.

MLT can digitize and automate appropriate parts of these workflows.

Digital Process Automation at a glance
SolutionDigital Process Automation
Solution AreaAI, Data & Digital Intelligence
ReplacesManual Entry · Emails · Spreadsheets · Repeated Approvals · Manual Hand-offs
Building BlocksDigital Forms · Validation · Business Rules · Approvals · System Updates · Notifications · Dashboards
PrincipleHuman Review Where It Is Necessary
GoalFaster, More Consistent, Easier-to-Monitor Processes
Solution highlights
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Manual pain points addressed
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Stages in a typical automated workflow
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Review retained where needed

Where Processes Still Depend on Manual Work

Many business processes still depend on:

Common manual dependencies
Manual Data EntryThe same details typed again
EmailsRequests lost in long threads
SpreadsheetsTrackers maintained by hand
Repeated ApprovalsChasing sign-offs again and again
Multiple Application LoginsSwitching between systems
Manual VerificationChecking every item by eye
Copying Between SystemsMoving information by hand
Human-Triggered NotificationsSomeone has to remember to tell
Office manager holding a printed approval form with signature boxes while his monitor shows an inbox of repeated approval pending and where is my request emails and a manual request tracker spreadsheet
Before automation: paper forms, email reminders and a spreadsheet tracker to chase one approval

Example Workflow

A typical request can move from a manual step to a fully tracked, automated process:

From manual request to report
Manual RequestPaper, email or phone call
Digital FormStructured capture on web or mobile
ValidationRequired fields, formats and limits checked
Business RulesRouting based on value, type or department
ApprovalThe right person, with full context
System UpdateRecords updated without re-entry
NotificationEveryone concerned informed automatically
Report / DashboardStatus and performance visible

Digital Form & Validation

A structured digital form replaces paper and email, and validation catches missing or out-of-limit information before the request moves forward.

Site supervisor in a hi-vis vest holding a smartphone with a material request form showing site, item, quantity, required date and photo attachment, with a validation message that the quantity exceeds the site limit
Digital form: validation flags an issue at the point of entry, not days later

Business Rules & Approval

Business rules route each request to the right approver automatically, and the approver sees the full context and approval chain in one place.

Over-the-shoulder view of a department head at his desk reviewing purchase request PR-1043 on a tablet, with a business rule requiring department head approval above INR 25,000, an approval chain from submitted to finance and approve, send back and reject buttons
Business rules: requests above a set value are routed to the department head automatically

System Update & Notification

Once approved, the relevant systems are updated and people are notified automatically, with no copying between applications and no one needing to remember to send an update.

Over-the-shoulder view of an employee at a laptop showing system record PR-1043 marked as updated automatically, while his phone shows notifications that the request was approved, inventory was reserved and delivery was scheduled
Automatic updates: the record changes and the requester is informed without manual steps

Report / Dashboard

Because every step is digital, the process becomes easy to monitor: open items, turnaround times and overdue requests are visible at a glance.

Operations team lead pointing at a wall dashboard showing open, approved today, average turnaround and overdue requests, a submitted to completed process flow and open requests by department
Process dashboard: status, turnaround and overdue items visible to the team

Automation With Human Review

The objective is not simply to eliminate human involvement.

It is to make processes faster, more consistent and easier to monitor, while retaining human review where it is necessary.

What automation should deliver
FasterLess waiting between steps
More ConsistentSame rules applied every time
Easier to MonitorEvery request visible and tracked
Human ReviewRetained where it is necessary
Accounts officer reviewing an exceptions queue where most items are auto-processed and three flagged items such as amount mismatch with purchase order, new vendor and suspected duplicate await human review
Human review: routine items are processed automatically, exceptions go to a person
Manual workflow
  1. Requests arrive by paper, email or phone
  2. Approvals are chased by reminders
  3. Status lives in someone’s spreadsheet
Digital process automation
  1. Requests captured and validated digitally
  2. Rules route approvals automatically
  3. Status visible on a live dashboard, with people reviewing exceptions
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Faster Processes, With People Where They Matter

From digital forms and business rules to approvals, system updates, notifications and dashboards, MLT automates the repetitive parts of your workflows and keeps human review where it is necessary.

Have a process that runs on emails and spreadsheets?

Tell us how the process works today, and our team will help identify which steps can be digitized and automated, and where human review should stay.

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