Highlighting Manual and Automatic Activities

There are several questions you can ask to determine which steps and activities in a process can be automated.

Answer the following questions to determine which steps and activities in a process can be automated:

• Which steps of the process should run without user intervention or attention?
• At what step or steps in the process is human interaction necessary?
• At what step or steps is it necessary for Sterling B2B Integrator to convert the document to the structure required by another system?
• What is the best method for starting the process?
• Do any of your applications need to process documents as soon as they are received?
• Should your applications send documents to a specified location or process when processing is complete?