What benefits does RPA bring to supply chain management?
Supply chain management is an intricate business, with many moving parts across multiple organizations. Complicating things further, each organization has its own legacy systems, multiple data inputs, and manual processes. The current market, however, demands streamlined supply chain operations that can do more than track location and cost. This creates a rich environment for RPA use cases across your entire supply chain.
Who benefits from supply chain management RPA?
Today's supply chain management is connected to more involved outcomes, like customer experience, quality of goods, and ultimately, your bottom line. That means all departments across the organization can benefit from implementing automation solutions.
How RPA for supply chain management can benefit your organization
Making the most of Robotic Process Automation for supply chain management can be achieved through virtually limitless methods, only limited by the imagination and training of your staff. Here are just a few of the ways you can benefit from Automation Anywhere's RPA platform:

Back Office
- Automate data entry with data extraction and AI
- Automatic invoice processing
- Extract data from many different formats
- Order processing automation

Manufacturing
- Instant notifications on inventory levels and bottlenecks
- Dynamic providers of source parts
- Vendor Selection based on geopolitical conditions
- Live inventory levels and locations

Retail and Marketing
- Automatically generate purchase orders
- Augment manual inventory with RFID tags
- More accurate sales forecasting
- AI-augmented marketing strategies

Customer Service
- Chatbots for customer service
- Decrease wait times for customer issues
- Self-service portals
- Enable comprehensive customer education portals
What to look for in an automated supply chain solution
At Automation Anywhere, we designed our platform to enable the people that do the work to automate the work. We give your front lines the toolset necessary to build robust, scalable robots. We provide you with a redundant, cloud-based system that you can access anywhere. We also built the first mobile app for securely managing your robotic processes so that you can create or refine processes from any mobile device.
First-in-class RPA systems should be engineered for ease of use, flexibility, and scalability. Because of our cloud-based systems, you get redundancy and scalability that just isn't as feasible with other self-hosted solutions. In addition, our intuitive, drag-and-drop configuration enables quick solution-building and rapid reconfiguration, so you can change processes at the speed of business.
Getting started with supply chain management automation
Designed with simplicity and intuitiveness, it is easy enough to use that virtually anyone can start making robots that add value to your organization. Enhance your workforce's capabilities by giving them access to our comprehensive training platform, Automation Anywhere University, to grow their capabilities to create more robust, overlapping automated systems with our RPA tools.