Increasing Focus on Supply Chain Process Automation
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Process automation technologies have increasingly evolved into strategic solutions during the last few years. And recently we have seen an increased focus on supply chain process automation.
While the focus in the initial years of process automation adoption was primarily on achieving cost reduction, process visibility and employee productivity have increasingly become important objectives now for deploying process automation solutions. With the initial focus on removing manual touchpoints and eliminating headcount, finance-related processes were the focus of the majority of process automation initiatives. This is evident from the automation progress reported by SAPinsiders where finance-related processes dominate in processes that are more than 50% automated in the current state. However, when it comes to the top focus area of business processes for automation in 2022, we see human resources (HR) and supply chain-related processes in addition to finance-related processes. This aligns with the top requirement of building process automation capabilities across functions, which SAPinsiders believe will help attain organizational agility. This article discusses top three reasons behind this increased interest.
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