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The Solution: Blue Prism Intelligent Automation for Manufacturing Blue Prism provides an interoperability solution for past, present and future systems, providing manufacturers the opportunity to integrate new technologies into existing and automated workflows. Manufacturers can monetize these new technologies, as well as use them to optimize their agility in the face of constant change.
Blue Prism can help organizations:• Transform the customer journey: Increase
visibility across the supply chain, respond faster to customer requests and adapt to their changing expectations for increased personalization and customization
• Digitize the back office: Blue Prism drives tangible benefits for standard shared service processes from finance and accounting to HR to inventory management
• Unlock big data: Vertical and horizontal integration to ensure better machine utilization, faster throughput and improved tracking of inventory and logistics through IoT.
The ChallengeManufacturers face ever-evolving challenges: from changing government policies, international trade wars and growing environmental concerns which are bringing huge paradigm shifts across the sector. All of which are further complicated by significant skills shortages, growing cyber threats and evolving customer needs for greater personalization. Manufacturers and suppliers must embrace Industry 4.0 to remain competitive, monetize the opportunities new technologies bring and drive change faster, safer and more reliably.
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What is RPA? At its core, Robotic Process Automation (RPA)software encompasses “software robots” that are specifically programmed to execute a task or a series of tasks by mimicking a human’s actions and executing those actions almost instantly.
Because these “Digital Workers” follow programmed rules, they can help organizations automatically improve process quality, efficiency, consistency, accuracy, and compliance.
Just as importantly, RPA allow organizations to do more with less, freeing up employees’ time to focus on tasks that require uniquely human qualities — such as emotional intelligence, reasoning, judgment, and direct customer interaction.
Blue Prism Digital Workers can integrate new technologies into legacy systems and existing processes to help take manufacturers to the next level of operation.
Digital Workforce tenets are:Scalability – You can instantly deploy one, several or all resilient digital workers and scale with ease.
Reusability – Create an inventory of re-usable business objects and processes.
Compliance – Manage risk with full visibility and control and an immutable audit trail, ensuring absolute compliance & security.
Security – Protect your business with the most robust RPA solution used by the world’s most secure financial institutions.
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How we help: Manufacturing
Streamline your operationsThe Problem:Data, in various non-standard formats, has often been trapped in disparate systems due to the absence of APIs or simply the lack of integration. Blue Prism’s Digital Workforce now make the systems, housing the vast datasets collected by equipment and machinery, accessible and actionable.
How we help:Predictive maintenance: Connected-RPA can gather data from assorted sensors, standardize the formatting and then facilitate the use of predictive algorithms to provide predictive maintenance. Digital Workers then take the relevant actions to minimize downtime.
Process efficiency & Tracking: Data captured by IoT devices such as factory equipment and RFID tags can be collated, aggregated, analyzed and acted upon by Digital Workers in conjunction with machine learning to increase productivity, improve process efficiency and drive down costs. Parts, components and products can be tracked throughout the production cycle.
Bill of materials: Engineers can make changes to the Engineering BOM - in Product Data Management (PDM) and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) applications – with the updated data points being automatically updated in the Manufacturing BOM, for example in SAP.
Improve the customer journeyThe Problem:Customers are increasingly expecting a seamless digital and personalized experience from initial ordering to accurate status updates and delivery confirmation. Legacy applications and a lack of visibility across disparate systems in the supply chain makes this a significant challenge, as manufacturers seek to provide a frictionless and highly transparent customer journey.
How we help:Customer experience can be improved through more efficient order and invoice processing, more responsive customer service and enhanced quality assurance. Intelligent Automation enables greater integration across multiple systems for improved speed and visibility, as well as providing self-service options to put the customer in control.
Additionally, Blue Prism’s integration with data analytics partners enables organizations to create greater insight from their customer data. Thus, enabling manufacturers to more quickly adapt to evolving customer preferences, as well as providing a more personalized experience that customers now demand.
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SAP TransformationThe Problem:With support for SAP ERP Central Component (SAP ECC) ending in 2025, moving to SAP S/4 HANA is key, but the project may prove both lengthy and challenging regardless of the chosen route. As organizations plan for migration, they should consider their current ERP strategy and evaluate the role automation can have in helping the transformation for the digital age.
How we help:SAP operations: Improve customer experience through the automation of historically manual SAP operations including adjustments, renewals, account service and customer onboarding.
Data migration and validation: Digital workers can orchestrate and validate data migration from existing database tables into new ones.
Basis functions: Use a digital workforce to automate simple processing ranging from setting up security, user authorizations, devices/printers to transport analysis & validation and Fiori app activation.
Robust supplier managementThe Problem:Maintaining and managing complex supplier relationships is critical to an effective supply chain and efficient production. Optimizing supplier performance, ensuring cost effectiveness and monitoring supplier adherence to regulatory and ethical requirement is a challenge.
How we help:Intelligent automation enables manufacturers to oversee their supplier portfolio and proactively manage performance through:
• Onboarding: Setting up approved and vetted suppliers accurately and efficiently
• Contract management: Proactive creation and management of supplier agreements
• Performance management: Automated reporting of supplier performance against SLAs
• Regulatory checks: Consistent execution of compliance checks to ensure suppliers are meeting all obligations and internal requirements.
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Optimize the Supply Chain
The Problem:Managing global supply chains with multiple suppliers operating on different systems across major regional regulatory differences is a complex task. End-to-end visibility can be limited and the manual effort of maintaining accurate data can be a mammoth task.
How we help:Digital Workers enable seamless supplier integration with the ability to update multiple systems accurately and efficiently. This ensures standardization of data across the end-to-end supply chain and speeds up processing.
Automation of order, inventory and shipment tracking processes increases accuracy and productivity, freeing up labor to concentrate on more complex logistical tasks.
While proactively monitoring market data with connected-RPA can help manufacturers consistently optimize the price they pay for services such as freight, minimizing the risk of constant fluctuations.
Strengthen cyber security
The Problem:The manufacturing sector is one of the most targeted industries globally for cyber-attacks. Expanding the number of technological touchpoints across an organization naturally increases security risks. This has limited the investment in Industry 4.0 in some areas.
How we help:Blue Prism can help overcome these challenges and concerns by introducing secure Digital Workers, minimizing the risk of human vulnerability and increasing auditability.
Just as with a human workforce, we understand that a Digital Workforce also requires security, oversight and governance and have built in strict controls regarding how our Digital Workers are configured, as well as how changes are managed and approved.
With world-class security, comprehensive audit trails and nonrepudiation, Blue Prism has been designed to meet the strict security and compliance needs of the most regulatory demanding industries.
Find out how Blue Prism sets the standard for Enterprise Security:
WHITE PAPER How Blue Prism Sets the Standard for Secure RPAhttps://www.blueprism.com/resources/white-papers/how-blue-prism-sets-the-standard-for-secure-rpa/
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Respond to regulation faster
The Problem:Regulatory changes across multiple geographies, can be difficult to react to, comply with and measure performance against.
How we help:Blue Prism started in Financial Services, one of the most heavily regulated industries globally, meaning we have a proven record of helping organizations:
• Quickly and efficiently comply with new regulation and amend existing processes when required
• Accurately manage customer and supplier data in line with regional legislation
• Remain agile enough to change locations, suppliers or production where market events or trends warrant it.
Why Blue Prism RPA:Blue Prism founded RPA, emerging as the industry leader and a trusted, secure intelligent automation choice for the Fortune 500 and public sector. We offer a secure, scalable and easy-to-use Digital Workforce that uses six Intelligent Automation Skills (see graphic) to augment human talent, increases productivity, improves customer experiences, and offers a foundation for a true intelligent automation strategy.
Blue Prism’s connected-RPA — supported by our Digital Exchange — connects legacy systems, API integrations, and the best in artificial intelligence and machine learning technology.
Blue Prism works with chemical, pharmaceuticals and engineering companies, food and beverage providers, automotive and aerospace manufacturers and many more. Blue Prism enables manufacturers to accelerate the digitization of their key operations and protect against cyber threats.
Find out more about Blue Prism for Manufacturing:
https://www.blueprism.com/solutions/industry/manufacturing-automation/
Blue Prism Digital Exchangehttps://digitalexchange.blueprism.com
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About Blue PrismBlue Prism’s vision is to provide a Digital Workforce for Every Enterprise. The company’s purpose is to unleash the collaborative potential of humans, operating in harmony with a Digital Workforce, so every enterprise can exceed their business goals and drive meaningful growth, with unmatched speed and agility.
Fortune 500 and Public-Sector organizations, among enterprise customers operating in over 70 countries and across 70 commercial sectors, trust Blue Prism’s enterprise-grade connected-RPA platform. By strategically applying intelligent automation, these organizations are creating new opportunities and services, while unlocking massive efficiencies that return millions of hours of work back into their business.
Available on-premises, in the cloud, hybrid, or as an integrated SaaS solution, Blue Prism’s Digital Workforce automates ever more complex, end-to-end processes that drive a true digital transformation, collaboratively, at scale and across the entire enterprise.
Visit www.blueprism.com to learn more or follow Blue Prism on Twitter @blue_prism and on LinkedIn.
