Robotic Process Automation (RPA)
and Application Areas
Enterprises are looking for ways to improve efficiency and reduce costs while keeping employee satisfaction and avoiding costly, long-lasting IT integration projects. Robotic process automation (RPA) empowers a unique technology which ensures fast and cost-effective integration with existing legacy systems & business applications without changing the existing infrastructure dynamics. RPA technology offers utmost flexibility while keeping the implementation and maintenance cost minimum, therefore the application areas of RPA cover many business areas rather than targeting a specific business function.
Why might my company need RPA?
All business users, regardless of experience or functional domain, are engaged with few to large amounts of tedious, operational tasks. The organizations can’t avoid these tasks since they are important for the business continuity.
Software robots can free these repetitive tasks from business users and therefore Fosters Employee Added Value.
- To increase the competitive advantage, most organizations consider Digital Transformation to be our current reality rather than just another innovative yet pointless endeavor. Digital transformation is an important opportunity to obtain paperless, integrated processes with continuous improvement opportunities.
RPA leverages the technology to carry out a faster Digital Transformation.
- Software robots work exactly as they are scheduled, which enables 24/7 working hours.
RPA improves Business Continuity.
- Software robots work extremely faster than even an advanced human user, which leads to lower costs.
RPA brings significant Cost Reduction in handling manual transactions.
- The RPA implementation process triggers the potential process improvement opportunities and with well-defined rules and standards, the errors will be minimized.
Software robots work Error-Free.
How do I know if a process is suitable for RPA?
Software robots can be utilized for various business needs, however it should be noted that RPA projects also require budget and capacity. Most of the time, there are a number of RPA requests waiting in the queue and IT (RPA) Departments need to make assessments to identify if a process is suitable for RPA development; taking into account business impact and characteristics of the process. Business impact can be verified by SME interviews and time studies with business users. With this study, the potential manual workload avoidance and the compliance risks can be quantified. On the other hand, during these workshops, process characteristics can be observed so that the candidate process can be analyzed against the below golden rules:
The processes which can fulfill these golden rules are considered very good candidates for RPA as long as the expected ROI is aligned with the organization’s strategy.
In which areas can RPA be useful?
As mentioned, software robots can operate in all functional units of an enterprise. Any activity – which requires accessing different applications to reconcile data between these different platforms, or repetitive data transformation, or sanity checking data for compliance with business rules – is a perfect area for RPA implementation. Supply Chain Management is a common use case today, with multiple teams interacting with each other manually even if there are IT systems for individual functions. In most supply chain organizations, these IT systems are not integrated and to ensure data integrity, either complex IT systems integrations are required or software robots can solve this business problem quickly and cost effectively. In addition, there are many cases in which usage of artificial intelligence will potentially increase the added value of RPA projects.
For additional detail and help with Process Excellence and RPA Services, please contact:
Yigiter Colakoglu – Managing Partner, Operations – yigiter.colakoglu@supplychainwizard.com
Enterprises are looking for ways to improve efficiency and reduce costs while keeping employee satisfaction and avoiding costly, long-lasting IT integration projects. Robotic process automation (RPA) empowers a unique technology which ensures fast and cost-effective integration with existing legacy systems & business applications without changing the existing infrastructure dynamics. RPA technology offers utmost flexibility while keeping the implementation and maintenance cost minimum, therefore the application areas of RPA cover many business areas rather than targeting a specific business function.
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