Easy Explanation of Standard operating procedure SOP

Create standard operating procedures to guide your best practices but with easy to understand and contain actions steps that are simple to follow in a form of a checklist.

• Time Management – Processes can be done in different ways
• Reduce Costs – Streamline process enabling employees to accomplish more in less time.
• Maintain Consistency – Ensure processes are performed the same way by everyone every time.
• Prevent failures & mistakes – Learn & adjust processess to elimate errors
• Performance – Easily track your team’s performance
• Accountability – Increase accountability and evaluate the performance
• Safer Working Practices – Perform jobs in a safe and consistent manner.

Keep the standard operating procedure up to date to stay relevant with current business procedures.

SOPs actually makes businesses more flexible researched by Harvard Business Standard Operating Procedures Can Make You More Flexible

A graphical representation can be created called a Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) for specifying business processes in a visualised workflow format.