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Automating the review and approval process to manage the lifecycle of your policies and procedures can ensure that critical documents do not become stale and out-ofstay fresh and up-to-date. This helps reduce the chance of accidents, compliance violations, and other problems.

You can use a workflow to set expiration dates so that you’re notified to notify you when it is time to review and update your documents to ensure that your policies and procedures are up-to-date, consistent, and secure.

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What are ways teams benefit?

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Policies and procedures: align your Document Management system with company policies.

Consistency: Document management helps maintain consistency in policies and procedures across the organization. It ensures that all employees are working from the same, Maintain consistency across your organization so that employees work from up-to-date versions of documents, reducing the risk of misunderstandings or outdated practices.

Security: Company policies and procedures often contain sensitive information. Document management allows for the implementation of Protect sensitive information from unauthorized access or data breaches with security measures such as access controls restrictions and encryption to protect this information from unauthorized access or data breaches.Continuous Improvement: Regularly reviewing and updating policies and procedures is essential for keeping them relevant and effective. Document management systems make it easier to track changes, gather feedback, and continuously improve company policies and proceduresavailable with document management.

Continuously improve company policies and procedures by conducting regular document reviews for relevance and practicality, tracking changes, and providing access to previous versions for internal and external audits.

Document lifecycles

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Document management is not just a matter of convenience; it's a critical element of effective governance, risk management, and compliance. It ensures that employees have access to the right correct information , at the right time , in a secure and organized manner, ultimately contributing to the success and longevity of a company.

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You can define specific workflow milestone milestones and permissions for each stage, ensuring that only authorized users can access and modify the documents.

 For example, you might have a proposal stage, a project plan stage, a development stage, and a testing stage. If publishing a policy or practice guide, you can prevent these from becoming stale by setting a time period for an “out-of-date” review.Compliance: Many industries and organizations are subject to various regulations and compliance requirements. Document management helps companies track and adhere to these regulations, reducing non-compliance risk and associated penalties.

Version Control: Document management systems often provide version control features. This means that changes to policies and procedures can be tracked, and previous versions can be retrieved if needed. This is essential for auditing and ensuring that changes are properly documented.

Efficiency: Well-organized document management systems make it easier and quicker to find and distribute policies and procedures. This improves operational efficiency and reduces the time and effort required to locate and share critical information.

Audit Trails: Document management systems often maintain audit trails, which can be crucial during internal or external audits. These trails provide a record of who accessed, edited, or reviewed documents, helping to ensure accountability and transparency.

Risk Management: Effective document management can help mitigate risks associated with non-compliance, errors, or misinterpretations of policies and procedures. By maintaining accurate records and ensuring that employees follow established procedures, organizations reduce the likelihood of costly mistakes.

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To get started

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Choose from the “out of the box” workflows, or create your own!

Content expiry workflow

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Content Expiry “Out is an “out of the box” workflow in the app!

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Managing content expiration using workflow parameters

Expiration of content Content expiration can be set for any workflow state, not just for your published content. This can be used to generate custom emails and on-screen notifications to advise of log - jams in your documentation process.One thing customers sometimes ask is

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Customers sometimes ask, “How can I warn my team in advance of page content that is nearing the end of it’s its set time period before the “out-of-date” review?” Confluence does not provide a way to monitor this date, but the following is a useful helpful way of managing this and provide providing custom email notifications in advance of before the set due date for expiry.

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Customer case studies

We have a number Many of our customers who use Comala Document Management as part of their review and approval document management process. These include some customers who use our app together with and Comala Publishing to help attain FDA Title 21 CFR Part 11 in the life sciences industry.

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Disclaimer

Appfire does not claim compliance or certification of any of our tools. In addition to taking advantage of technical elements, compliant systems must also implement the necessary procedural and administrative controls.

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