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Managing large volume documents with automation bot
Managing large volume documents with automation bot

This business handles thousands of installation, repair, maintenance and rehabilitation jobs across water, gas, electricity and telecoms sectors.The business is responsible for supporting infrastructure and focusses on continual improvement and innovation to create a first-class customer experience.‍They employ IRO 4500 staff throughout the UK. Coordinating and managing all the projects that the company undertakes daily is a huge undertaking. Many of the daily operations are rules-based and transactional in nature. The type of task that RPA is ideally suited to.‍

The Challenge

The challenge around this client was to start to pick out a good process to provide a virtually risk- and cost free way to assess the benefits of RPA.

Process

Production of a “safety pack”required before any job is undertaken for a large water, energy or telecoms company

Details

The pack contains a number ofdrawings and schematics that together provide a picture of what is happening underground.

Task

Accessing systems of every individual asset owner (not always with client) and collating in the final document

Effort

Very time consuming process with the company producing a huge 25,000 packs a month.

The Solution

Deploying RPA

By deploying a UI Path RPA platform, it was shown that a robot could operate 24 hours a day to deliver highly accurate and error free safety packs to the business.

The crucial part of this was demonstrating how quickly that RPA could be deployed and rolled out across the business.

Initially, this solution handled the creation of 5% of the packs. This was upscaled to today and now 60% of those packs are now automated making the entire process more effective and cost efficient.

Take away

By starting with a clearly identifiable process that ‘tests’ the viability, it was easy to build confidence and familiarity to then make changes so the system could be more robust and scalable.

The Outcome

Impressive Statistics

The statistics from this example are impressive and demonstrate the huge power that RPA can have in a business.

  • 320 man hours saved per month with the pilot project alone
  • £145k annual estimated cost saving
  • The first phase only took 6 months to develop and deploy, half the time expected
  • No core system changes - new automations were added to the SAP system without any core changes
The Future

Further investment

With phase one a resounding success, the business has invested in moving onto other areas in their business.

As the UI Path platform is quite straight forward, they have been able to experiment and learn internally, with their own people that are now getting started with the technology.

Take away

With guidance and the building of a centre of excellence, there is no reason why new automations should not be launched with only a light touch from our team.

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