Inflation, Cost of Labor, and Taxes! Oh My!

For business owners, the impacts of inflation, cost of labor, and taxes all go hand in hand. As inflation rises, almost one out of three small businesses cite increasing prices as their greatest issue. Although we can’t prevent inflation or prepare your taxes, Zelifcam can help lower your labor costs while improving the overall quality of the products you produce.

How Can Zelifcam Lower Your Labor Costs?

The short answer is by doing what we do best.

The long answer lies in Kaizen. Kaizen is a Japanese word that means “change for the better.”

At Zelifcam, we are experts in workflow automation. We work with you to identify opportunities for improvement, or kaizen. We pinpoint and automate redundant tasks that otherwise waste valuable time and are often prone to failure.

Consider Our Past Deliverables

Our work speaks for itself. We consistently deliver automated solutions that lower costs over time and improve our clients’ overall workflows.

Pick & Pack System

We designed a system for a shipping team with a company that allowed them to temporarily scale their department to manage a complex order. The team brought in support from other departments that were unfamiliar with their shipping systems. Our software solution was so simple that a basic five-minute tutorial was all that was required for the temporary assistants to be able to use it effectively. Our system transformed an historically 3-week long annual process wrought with errors and late shipments into a single week event with zero shipping errors. Scaling this operation was low cost from a hardware standpoint, too. We set up multiple stations using Raspberry Pi 3 with monitors the company already had on hand. We added an element of gamification to the system to keep participants motivated. It included scoreboards, badges, and prizes for volunteers who took on the additional workload.

Bulk Import Tools

Our team created a tool specifically to integrate into a pre-existing custom CRM that had been developed to directly import data into the closed source system. We reverse engineered database calls and the schema to build bulk data imports that stayed in line with manual entries to ensure that no database problems were introduced. Our custom tool turned a multi-person, multi-day monthly project into a monthly task that takes one hour per month.

Legacy Telephone Reporting System

We developed a reporting system specially designed for legacy telephones. Our client was unable to finance an entirely new phone system, so we got to work on a solution. We created an automatic database mirroring application, which was used for all reporting. We added Metabase to the client’s server with the new database and built a series of dashboards and reports to provide insight on all agents’ performances. Through the use of our reports and data, our client was quickly able to identify bottlenecks and underperforming agents and was able to pinpoint ways to improve their team and processes overall.

Workflow Management Application

Our team designed a workflow management application specifically for handling approval workflows for internal documents across multiple departments within a large corporation. Document workflows are relatively easy to design using a simple drag and drop builder. We were able to configure SMS, email, and Slack notifications alerting employees when documents move from one department to the next. Prior to implementing our application, documents were passed between departments via email and would commonly fall through the cracks. Our application reduced the average multi-department approval times by 80% while providing additional transparency regarding the status of every document.

How Can Zelifcam Lower Your Labor Costs?

In the long term, the cost of automation is significantly lower than the cost of reactively seeking solutions only when problems arise. Kaizen, or continuous improvement, ultimately drives down costs by optimizing your process.

While investing in your company during challenging financial times may seem counterintuitive, the inverse is actually true. If you aren’t investing in your business, you are already in a state of decline. Your future success relies on the decisions you make today, so the choice is yours.

Investing in automation today preserves and enhances your business of tomorrow.

If you’re considering adopting a kaizen philosophy to sustain and grow your company, we are eager to help. Contact us and we’ll be in touch shortly.