Practice
Business Process Automation and Optimization
Murarum's process optimization service helps companies of 10 to 250 people remove the manual steps that scale badly, redesign their workflows and apply business process automation only where it pays. It starts with a diagnosis that sets the scope and timeline, and ends with systems and documentation the team runs without us.
When this fits
Where operational efficiency breaks first
Everything goes through me
Approvals, exceptions and customer answers wait for the owner or one senior person. Growth adds queue, not capacity, and holidays become a risk.
Too much manual work between tools
The same order, invoice or client record is typed into the CRM, the ERP and a spreadsheet. Each re-entry costs hours and creates the errors that surface with the customer.
Reports built by hand
Month-end numbers are assembled from exports and memory. Nobody trusts them fully, and the people who build them cannot do their actual job that week.
Specific solutions
When the problem is this specific.
How it runs
Workflow redesign in four steps
- 01
Diagnose
We sit with the people who do the work and map the process as it runs today, not as the org chart describes it. Every hand-off, wait and workaround is recorded.
Output: process map, cycle-time baseline, ranked list of the steps that cost most.
- 02
Design
We redesign the flow around the outcome: fewer steps, clear ownership, decisions made once. Automation is proposed only for steps that are repetitive, stable and measurable.
Output: redesigned flow, roles and hand-offs, decision on what to automate and what to leave manual.
- 03
Build
We ship the change to production ourselves: integrations between the tools you already have, business process automation where it is earned, and the smallest new software that closes the gap.
Output: working process in production, tested with the team, measured against the baseline.
- 04
Scale
We document the process, train the people who own it and stay until the numbers hold for a full cycle. Then we hand it off.
Output: hand-off documentation, a scorecard the team reads without us, next candidates for improvement.
What you get
What process improvement work delivers
- Process map of the current and the redesigned flow
- Cycle-time and error-rate baseline, measured before any change
- Redesigned workflow with owners, hand-offs and decision points
- Automation of the repetitive steps that earn it, shipped to production
- Integrations between the CRM, ERP and tools you already run
- Reports generated from the system, not assembled by hand
- Hand-off documentation and training for the internal owner
- A scorecard that shows whether the change holds
- n8n
- Make
- Zapier
- Google Sheets
- Google Workspace
- Microsoft 365
- Slack
- Airtable
- Notion
- HubSpot
- Odoo
- Gmail
- PostgreSQL
Stack
Automation on the tools
your team already uses
We connect what you already run, Google Workspace or Microsoft 365, your CRM, your ERP and e-Factura, and automate the steps between them with n8n, Make or Zapier.
Proof
Proof, stated plainly
We have two published process cases. For Eventer.NET we redesigned speaker logistics, which ran on email and spreadsheets, and built the platform the new process runs on. For Sunday we mapped the flows and processes behind its B2B application, then designed the UX and UI around them; implementation there was not ours. Neither case claims measured results, because we publish only figures a client has cleared.
Cases with measured process results will be published here as soon as a client clears them.
Questions about business process automation
What is business process optimization?
Business process optimization is the work of analysing how a company's work actually moves, removing the steps that add time or errors without adding value, and redesigning the flow so it holds as the company grows. With us it includes the diagnosis, the workflow redesign, the build of any automation or integration the redesign needs, and the hand-off to the internal team. It is not a report; the deliverable is a process running in production.
How long does a process diagnosis take?
It depends on how many processes are in scope and how many people touch them. A diagnosis is scoped to the few processes that cost the most, and we state its duration and price in the proposal after a first conversation. There is no public price list; scope sets the price.
Start with the diagnosisDo we need new software?
Usually not at the start. Most of the operational efficiency in a company of 10 to 250 people comes from removing steps and connecting the tools already in use. Business process automation is added only for steps that are repetitive, stable and measurable. New software is the last option, and when it is needed we build the smallest version that closes the gap.
How do you measure results?
Against a baseline taken before any change: cycle time from request to completion, error and rework rate, hours per week spent on manual steps, and how many decisions still route through one person. The same numbers are tracked after the change and reviewed until they hold for a full cycle.
What if our processes are not documented?
That is the normal starting point. The diagnosis produces the documentation by observing the work and interviewing the people who do it. Undocumented processes are not a blocker; they are usually the reason the work is worth doing.
Automation broke for us before. Why would this hold?
Automations usually break for two reasons: they were built on a process nobody had mapped, and nobody owned them after launch. We start with the diagnosis, so the build rests on how work actually runs, and we automate only steps that are repetitive, stable and measurable. After launch we stay until the numbers hold for a full cycle, you get the documentation, and any bug in what we built is covered for 12 months.
Further reading
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Start with the process that costs you most.
Tell us where work waits, gets re-typed or depends on one person. We reply with a view on whether a diagnosis is worth it, and what it would cover.