It’s just part of the job.
But when you take a step back, a different picture starts to form.
Admin work isn’t a small task.
It’s a significant part of how operations run day to day.
According to Asana’s Anatomy of Work report, employees spend up to 60% of their time on “work about work” such as searching for information, updating systems, and coordinating tasks.
Research from IDC also shows that teams lose 20 to 30% of their time to inefficiencies tied to fragmented systems and data handling.
In industrial environments, that often shows up as:
It’s not one major issue.
It’s a hundred small ones, every single day.
Take a simple example: an inspection or incident report.
At each step, there’s room for:
Now apply that same process across:
This isn’t just admin work.
It’s inefficiency built directly into the process.
Manual and disconnected workflows don’t just slow things down.
They increase the likelihood of errors and gaps.
According to Deloitte, poor data quality and fragmented systems are major contributors to operational risk and compliance challenges.
And when it comes to standards like ISO 9001, documentation matters.
If information is:
It creates unnecessary pressure during audits and recertification.
Not because the work wasn’t done,
but because the proof isn’t clear or accessible.
Many teams have already tried to solve this by going digital.
But the workflow often becomes:
Fill → scan → upload → re-enter → store
It looks modern.
But it’s still fragmented.
The issue isn’t paper versus digital.
It’s whether your systems actually work together.
When admin work is built into a connected system, everything becomes simpler.
No scanning.
No re-entry.
No chasing information.
This is where the real shift happens.
When your data is centralized, it becomes usable.
You can:
Instead of asking:
“Where is that report?”
You’re asking:
“What is this telling us?”
BOMS is designed to remove the layers of admin work that slow teams down.
By bringing inspections, incident reporting, maintenance, and permitting into one system, teams can:
It also provides visibility into:
So instead of managing systems, teams can focus on improving operations.
If your process still relies on filling, scanning, uploading, and re-entering information, the issue isn’t effort.
It’s structure.
And structure is what determines how efficiently your operation can actually run.