How RPA In Manufacturing Industry Is Transforming Business Processes?

For years, the manufacturing industry has been using physical robots to automate many of the processes in the assembly line and packaging, but they still struggle to keep backend processes speedy and simple—primarily due to untrained workforce, time-intensive processes and regularly changing regulations.

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is addressing these pain points for Manufacturing Industry. RPA can be used as the key technology for end-to-end process automation. Cross-industry manufacturers are using it to streamline complex backend processes including invoicing, vendor communication, payment processing, Bill of Materials (BOM), report generation, and more.

Automating rule-based and repetitive operations, RPA in manufacturing industry is helping businesses to focus more on product innovation and core strengths instead of day-to-day tasks that are of course critical but repetitive and laborious in nature. RPA results in increased process execution speed, efficiency, and accuracy.

Key Advantages of RPA For Manufacturing Industry

With RPA bots at their side, manufacturers can automate various processes while consistently keeping up with an ever-changing demand for faster and more efficient production. RPA is non-intrusive and works seamlessly with the existing legacy systems without changing the existing enterprise IT landscape of any organization. RPA in manufacturing sector provides the following advantages:

• Reduction in operational cost by 60%
• Data capturing and data entry accuracy by 100%
• Reduce operating costs by 40%
• Mitigate labor shortage
• Process shipments faster than ever
• Documented trail of work performed for audit
• Increase control over processes
• Maximize employee performance
• Significantly lower downtime
• Increase quality and compliance

How Is RPA Used In Manufacturing Industry?

Physical robots have been successful in streamlining assembly, testing, and packaging line in the manufacturing industry for many years. However, the industry struggles to automate back-office processes. To mitigate this gap, manufacturers are turning to RPA software for various core processes including:

Vendor Communication

Manufacturers still experience an immense amount of manual effort in the day-to-day business of communicating with multiple vendors for various queries including tracking the status of shipping goods in the company’s ERP system, sending updates to customers, and closing out POs.

RPA can automate this entire process by opening the email, reading the text, downloading attachments, accessing the ERP portal, checking inventory availability, updating the status of the shipment, replying to the customer, and moving on to the next customer email.

Inventory Management

Inventory management in the manufacturing industry has a tremendous amount of paper and manual work that makes the process inefficient and costly. Providing real-time information about the inventory levels, RPA bots can automate processes like monitoring inventory levels, order placement, receipt generation, delivery tracking, and responding to quotations and other queries via email.

Bill of Materials (BOM)

One of the most crucial documents in the manufacturing industry, the Bill of Materials is maintained to provide employees with all the data employees would need in the future during the upgradation or creation of new products. Software bots can be programmed to fetch data of specific products or elements and replicate human steps it would need to create a bill of materials. It results in faster development of new products without errors.

Purchase Order Creation

There are thousands of vendors to deal with in a manufacturing business. Besides, employees need to generate thousands of purchase orders every day. So creating thousands of PO manually is certainly a daunting task for employees. RPA can automate the entire PO creation process, enabling accurate and fast results by extracting data from independent enterprise systems, getting email approval from concerned departments, and seamlessly processing the PO generation request faster than ever before.

Build The Most Reliable And Cost-effective RPA Solutions With Eastern Software Solutions

With its industry-winning potential capabilities, RPA is the best business process automation technology for manufacturing organizations. RPA can optimize the core operations like purchase process automation, invoice process automation, and supply chain automation while improving agility, speed, and quality. Eastern Software Solutions has extensive experience in the manufacturing industry building robust RPA solutions using world-class platforms and architecture frameworks for global clients. If you would like to learn more, schedule a free demo to see the benefits for your business. Contact us at marketing@essindia.com
 

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