Thursday, November 28, 2013

Certificate Tracking Services – Ensuring Smooth Business Operations

Compliance is a very important aspect of running a business, a missed licensed or permit may cause legal disputes and unnecessary cost.   This is why companies or businesses usually have an organized system in place to ensure that compliance becomes part of their contractual process. 
One of the issues that business may encounter with this process is to ensure that these pertinent documents are updated or current.  Every company’s Human Resource and Personnel Department have a myriad of tasks each day and the effectivity dates of these documents are often bound to be overlooked, especially for companies whose projects and contracts are spread over a whole State.  In this case, the job of tracking Certificates of Insurance, Certificates of Currencies,  ABNs, and other  permits becomes more daunting and logistically challenging.
On-going monitoring is a must and this is where a dedicated tracking service should be employed.  Meticulous monitoring can only be ensured this way, otherwise the alternative is hiring a dedicated team to monitor, verify, file, notify and do regular follow up which may take up a lot of the company’s financial resources and manpower.  Service companies like CertTracker has set of services specific to companies.  They have a comprehensive set of services that are designed to address different industry requirements. 
The tracking system used has proven to be reliable and highly accessible because of the online database which is available at any time. The system is manually monitored by a competent compliance team well versed in insurance certificates and compliance documents. These are skilled individuals specialize in risk management that manually tracks the documents and oversees the system. The system also has a set of customizable features such as notifications, expiration tracking and archiving services that can be set according to the needs of the company.   The notifications and user interface look like it is actually your own in house system.

To avoid any legal disputes and smooth insurance processes, strict compliance to necessary documents insurance certificates, licenses and permits should be observed.  And this is why certificate tracking services are vital to a growing company because a lack luster system of monitoring can prove devastating to any business.