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DocuVault provides records management services to businesses large and small. They are proud of their reputation for industry-leading customer service, and work every day to help their clients streamline records management processes, reduce cost, and minimize risk while staying compliant.
DocuVault specializes in document storage, retrieval, indexing, shredding, scanning, and electronic data storage and destruction. They boast a Record Center of over 40 million documents from clients across the Delaware Valley Area.
During the COVID-19 quarantine, DocuVault was forced to lay off a significant amount of their workforce. Difficulty in sustaining daily operations was compounded by a special project that required large scale shelving, relocation of current records and the expected shipment of approximately 100,000 records. With a tight timeline and little room for error, DocuVault reached out to Greencastle to assess their daily operations with the goal of improving efficiency and accountability to meet their business goals.
Greencastle assessed DocuVault’s current process and organizational structure. Using LINQ, Greencastle was able to identify areas of improvement almost immediately. In conjunction with the DocuVault team, Greencastle implemented a new process that streamlined employee activity. With a massive warehouse, every step was documented and analysed. Normally the process is very manual and takes weeks, Greencastle was able to provide insights within days.
As a result of the project, the new way of managing the business identified approximately 134 wasted work hours per Record Specialist per month (a total of 8000/year) that eliminated the expense of temporarily hiring staff to meet the special project timeline. All together, the project showed the value of a new technology (LINQ) and the willingness of an organization to change to meet the needs of their clients. Docuvault is expecting to save a total of 8000 work hours and $140,000 in 2020 alone.
Estimated annual savings
of $140,000
Recovered 134 hours of wasted
time per employee per month
8,000 hours saved per year
Partnering with DocuVault, Greencastle assessed the roles and responsibilities of each employee. Additionally, the entire document storage process was built within the LINQ platform. Using LINQ’s digital twin of DocuVault’s process, the team was able to quickly identify areas for improvement. Knowing the current operational process is essential to understanding how the organization solves problems. Coupling LINQ with the stated business goals and the onsite assets, the Greencastle team mapped out a new process that leveraged the strengths of the organization and created a new way to store, retrieve and process records. Working with DocuVault’s leadership, a new process was implemented and reinforced to ensure success.
To increase the team’s accountability across the business, Greencastle and DocuVault identified new roles and implemented a new structure quickly.
LINQ allowed the Greencastle team to build a digital copy of DocuVault’s processes to identify waste and inefficiency. Consequently, throughout the assessment process, Greencastle was able to model multiple versions of potential future process based upon conversations with managers and employees. The ability to infinitely model a future state of the business identified duplicative steps, wasted movement and other inefficiencies much sooner than traditional approaches.
LINQ is the best tool we’ve seen for the rapid capture of your current state when you want to be able to determine risk associated with failure of any part of the system, and iterate more effective and efficient ways of doing things digitally.
LINQ follows the flow of information through an organisation, showing each human (manual) and machine-based interaction (automated) action, and recording where information is stored. Action duration and frequency is recorded, and people and systems are costed to determine for the first time most likely, the overall cost of operations.
Dashboards and Insight panels will show all People, Systems, Information and Actions contained within the process, and the impact that any risk to any one of these could have on operations.
The ability to Tag elements of the process to indicate Risk, or opportunities for efficiencies (for example) drive dynamic Impact Assessment calculations that will inform business cases for projects that will reduce the burden of producing reports, improve trust and transparency, and mitigate risks associated with critical monitoring and reporting procedures.
The best thing about LINQ though is that it’s FAST!
We can help you model your current and future state digital twins, or we can give you a little bit of training and hand you the reins.
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