Procedure management software
- What keeping the register current costs
- $6,600
- Reviews a year
- 48
- Hours a year
- 120
Every figure printed on this site is arithmetic on the worked example we publish: a register of 48 procedures reviewed once a year at 2.5 hours each by a reviewer costing $55 an hour, 30% of it overdue today; and 12 processes with 4 procedures each, 60 staff of whom 40% are in scope for any one procedure, at 0.15 hours to read and sign, at $38 an hour. Change any of those on a worksheet and the numbers change with them. Nothing here is a market statistic and nothing is quoted from a third party.
Procedure management software and document management software get compared against each other constantly, and they solve different problems. A document manager is good at finding a file and controlling who can open it. A procedure manager is good at answering whether the file is still true, whose job it is to say so, and who has read it since it last changed. If your problem is finding things, you may not need this. This page is about telling the two problems apart.
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Ask which question hurts
Cannot find it, or cannot trust it. Those are different products, and buying for the wrong one produces a system people use for storage and work around for everything else.
Count the register before shopping
48 procedures is a different problem from 480. Below about a hundred, the binding constraint is review discipline; above it, findability and structure start to matter as much.
Measure the overdue share, honestly
On the worked example here, 30% of a 48-procedure register is 14.4 documents past their review date, and clearing them is 36 hours of somebody's time. That number is the business case, and it is usually worse than expected.
Decide who is allowed to publish
A register anybody can change is a register nobody trusts, and one only one person can change is a register that goes stale when they are away. An owner per procedure with an approver above them is the shape that survives both.
Procedure management software: what people ask
How is this different from document management?
Document management answers where is it. Procedure management answers is it still true, whose job is that, and who has read it since it changed.
How many procedures before we need software?
It is less about the count than about whether anybody can tell you the overdue share today. If nobody can, the register is already too big for the folder.
Can we import what we have?
Yes, and you should, as they are. Rewriting before you know which ones are overdue is doing the work in the wrong order.
Sopvo Pro
Keeping the register, not just the answer
You have the number. Pro keeps the register it describes: every procedure, its owner, its version and who signed for it.
- Keep a copy on your own machine, not just in ours.
- No Sopvo mark on anything you hand to staff.
- Close the tab mid-review and come back to it exactly as it was.
- Your organisation's mark on every printed procedure.
- Every procedure, version and signature out in one file, in one click.
- A new version announced to the people it applies to, from the register.
- Not used here: Sopvo takes no payments on your behalf.
- Not used here: a procedure register has nothing to post to a ledger.
$49per month, whole team
Start Sopvo Pro PricingSopvo Pro is $49 a month and renews automatically each month at $49 until you cancel. There is no minimum term and the price does not change on renewal.
Will it hold your register? Ask us about Procedure management software
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