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Example bCAM Applications
 Extending Current Data Systems
Most data systems can only work within the features and capabilities offered by the vendor. But, what if your operation is different, more complex, or requires multiple data systems and equipment. A bCAM system can be setup to communicate and process work from these systems and coordinate the effort with the other automated systems or manual activities.
A good example might be the many sets of a medical lab process responding to a lab request. A bCAM process receives the order and then walks it through any approvals, inventory checks, equipment scheduling, testing, etc. until the loop is closed on the request, all while providing process status to management.
Collaboration Management
A bCAM process can be used to coordinate the use of collaboration tools, calendars, and data retrieval systems. Processes could designed to follow any one of the current standards or create your own.
Communicating Sensitive Data
Sometimes information is of a nature that it must be protected. How then do you manage the transfer of the information without exposing it to the wrong people?
Let us look at a HR process used to review resumes of potential new hires. Using bCAM, a process application can be built to receive and check resume information, verify employment, evaluate salary issues, and on. The people checking employment should not be privileged to view salary information. A bCAM process can limit field information based on the roles of each user, limiting them to only the information they need to complete their task.
Confidential Information can also be shared from other system sources where the source is not to be known, protecting the source and/or the destination from each other.
Factory Automation and Material Handling
bCAM processes can make action calls to automates equipment and/or tracking systems. This can be used to coordinate shop floor activities and optimize production throughput.
Work can be queued pending the physical transfer and placement of stored items to allow assignment of work as required kit pieces or other equipment become available.
bCAM lends itself to Just-In-Time and Flexible Management processing. People can be grouped into overlapping work groups, applying the right amount of resources to the job at hand.
Other Example Solutions
- Vendor Managed Inventory Processing
- Security Event Management
- Order Processing
- Mobile or Handheld Services Management
- Inventory Stores Automation
- Medical Claims Processing
- Distribution Center scheduling
- Mining Operations and Scheduling
- Credit Approval Processing
- Medical Inventory Management
- Your Specific Business Processes
- Some good questions to ask regarding your own application
- Within your company or division, what efforts could use some streamlining?
- Could you use a better view into what is going on?
- Could your people work better collectively?
- Could a better working process reduce exceptions and escalations?
- Would it be helpful if your supporting systems did things your way?
- Would it be helpful if these capabilities where available at realistic prices?
- If you said yes to any of the about, is it worth your time to investigate BPM Centric Application Management with us?
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