SOP’s & It’s Importance in Business!

Create more structure in your business activities using standard operating procedures (SOPs).

Your customers depend on a product or service to be of a certain minimum quality.

SOPs help you reduce the errors, or variations, that occur in the mass production of a product or the duplication of a service.

Standard operating procedures (SOPs) are step-by-step instructions that act as guidelines for work processes.

Whether written up in numbered steps or formatted as flow charts, effective SOPs are complete, clearly written, and based on input from the workers who do the job.

When employees follow the SOP for a particular job, they produce a product that is consistent and predictable.

As your organization grows, you may decide to set up different locations where employees will replicate the work processes of the original location.

Having SOPs makes it easy to replicate processes across your organization.

Employees at each location can use the same operating manual to identify how to perform a standard procedure.

You can also track the productivity of each site based on the levels of performance for each standard operating procedure, which is good information to have if you must scale down the organization.

An SOP is a useful business tool as it communicates the correct way of carrying out an activity within your organization.

With improvements made to processes, the operating procedures are updated, and each update requires new training.

Updating SOPs provides a method to communicate the process changes to employees.

 Resources by: https://quickbooks.intuit.com/ca/resources/business/importance-and-benefits-of-standard-operating-procedures/ and https://smallbusiness.chron.com/importance-standard-operating-procedures-organizations-69530.html