Following established Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) is essential in all industries, including food, Cannabis, NHP, and medical devices, to maintain product quality and safety. SOPs are like recipes that guide workers with step-by-step instructions to produce consistent and standardized results. Failure to follow an SOP may lead to Quality Assurance (QA) deviations, which could further burden the Quality Management System (QMS).
However, it is not uncommon to see where operations do not have trust in standard operating procedures and struggle to complete the associated forms. Investing in customized SOPs that fit your operations and are user-friendly can significantly boost worker efficiency. In fact, spending a little extra time to create customized SOPs and forms can save much more resources per year compared to using generic templates.
Let’s do some simple math: assuming an SOP template was provided as part of a licensing service that comes with template forms, if your workers spend just 5 minutes more filling out that form compared to a customized form and the form is filled 5 times a day, over the year, it will cost over 100 hours of extra labor.
At CanSat Consulting, we have seen this over and over and assisted clients in creating customized standard operating procedures based on the needs of your SMEs. Customized SOPs save cost, labor and improve efficiency in the long term. Our team has over a decade of experience writing SOPs.
Contact us today at info@cansatconsulting.com to schedule a no-obligation complimentary consultation with one of our experts.