Turning document-heavy workflows into clearer supply decisions

Project

Turning document-heavy workflows into actionable opportunities

Year

recent work

Impact in one paragraph

I helped the team understand a document-heavy supply workflow, identify where friction happened across tools, handoffs, and decisions, and translate research into clearer product direction for opportunity management. The work helped reduce ambiguity, surface key opportunity areas, and support better conversations between product, business, and operations stakeholders.

Context

Enterprise supply teams were working with document-heavy processes, scattered information, manual checks, and multiple handoffs.

My role

UX Researcher and service design contributor, working with product, business, operations, and subject-matter experts.

What I needed to learn

  • How the workflow happened today

  • Where information was delayed, duplicated, or lost

  • Which decisions depended on manual interpretation

  • What users needed to identify and act on opportunities

What I did

  • Supported research planning and user/stakeholder interviews

  • Mapped workflows, handoffs, and decision points

  • Identified friction points and opportunity areas

  • Synthesized findings into product recommendations

Key insights

  • Information existed, but it was scattered across documents, tools, and people.

  • The main friction lived across the workflow, not in a single screen.

  • Users needed visibility into opportunities, not just another place to store information.

Artifacts

Workflow map · Journey map · Research synthesis · Friction matrix · Opportunity areas · Product recommendations

Outcome

Helped reduce ambiguity, clarify workflow friction, and support product conversations around opportunity management.

NDA note

This case study uses anonymized, modified, and representative content. No confidential company data, business rules, internal records, or proprietary workflows are shown.

Scope of Work

UX Research
Workflow Design
Enterprise UX
OCR Review
Usability Testing

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