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Volume doubled. Operations creak.
Orders and customer messages doubled in a year, and the answer so far has been more overtime. We test which processes break at 2× and redesign them before they do.
What it looked like
- Overtime is the default, not the exception.
- Customer messages wait longer every month.
- Every new hire takes weeks to be useful.
02 · What we did, stage by stage
What we did, stage by stage
- Assess
We stress-test each core process against 2× volume and rank where it breaks first.
- Map
We map the breaking points: handoffs, approvals and manual checks.
- Mature
Redesigned processes, staffing rules per volume and KPIs that warn before overload.
- Optimise
We track the KPIs monthly and hand the first automations to our engineers or yours.
03 · The process
Customer support automation, with a person on hard cases
Routine questions are answered in minutes, in the customer's dialect; hard cases go to a person.
What changed
- Tickets per agent a day40110Example
- Overtime hours a month30080Example
Customer support automation, with a person on hard cases
- Customer message
- Classify, detect language
- Complaint or refund?
- Known case?
- Look up order
- Draft the reply
- Send
- Answered in 2 min
- First response: 4 hours → 2 min (Example)
05 · Questions
Questions
Is hiring more people the wrong answer?
Sometimes it is the right one: Devvion shows which processes scale with people and which need redesign first, so you hire where it pays.
How do you test 2× volume?
Devvion models each process with your real volumes, times and handoffs, then doubles the input to see where queues form.
Related cases
- Lower overheadForward-deployed
The same order, typed three times.
Example Re-keying a week: 25 hours → 3 hours
- Faster cyclesForward-deployed
Stock runs out, then we overbuy.
Example Reorder to PO: 5 days → 1 day
- Faster cyclesBoth
Complaints and churn are rising.
Example Complaint to root cause: 2 months → 10 days
06 · Contact
Book the assessment.
Tell us what is slowing the business down. We'll confirm the scope and the dates on a first call.