Supply chain automation delivers resiliency, sustainability, and productivity

Transform your supply chain with automation and AI​

Connect the dots. Build an autonomous supply chain that goes the distance.

An autonomous supply chain creates real business value

Resiliency - make better decisions, faster

3.6%

more growth than top organizations' less resilient rivals
Sustainability - make it easy to collaborate

84%

of B2B buyers say it takes too long to get information back from the supplier
Productivity - increase the efficiency

65%

of short-term decisions within supply chain planning will be automated or autonomous
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AI and automation in Supply Chain Webinar

During this hour-long webinar, we’ll share how AI-powered automations are leading to resilient and sustainable supply chains. You can expect to: explore strategic use cases that connect the dots -- design, plan, source, make, and deliver -- to enable an autonomous supply chain—tackle complex issues by drawing scalable, enterprise ready solutions— witness how experts from UiPath, SAP, and Deloitte collaborate and leverage AI-powered automation to break down silos and address the specific needs of the end-to-end supply chain.

Customers achieve world-class results with AI and automation in supply chain

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Case Study

E. & J. Gallo uncorks RPA's potential

E. & J. Gallo, a U.S.-based winery and distributor, realized it needed a faster and more reliable way to transfer data to its inventory management system. Robotic process automation (RPA) was the most obvious tool for the job. That was just the beginning, though, and the company soon found new RPA applications in every corner of the organization.

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SDi Customer Story

SDI has transformed their supply chain management into an RPA-driven culture by creating a citizen-developer program, enlisting an all-star team from across the organization.

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Close operational gaps across the supply chain

Maximize visibility, minimize errors, and deliver more efficiency.

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Industry 5.0: Manufacturing and supply chain driven by AI-powered automation

FORWARD VI : Manufacturing and supply chain driven by AI-powered automation on-demand

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Supply Chain automation engineering

Engineering and Research & Development

Decrease time to market for intelligent products and break down silos between engineering and operations​

  • Speed of Innovation: more product variants are introduced faster to the market​​

  • Break down silos: improve communications with operations to increase profitability of product introductions and changes​​

  • Intelligent products –​ software test automation​

    Many products include software like cars, phones, refrigerators, and watches. Software test automation for software, which is embedded in products, is critical for product success​​.

    Benefits of the intelligent products use case: 

    • Eliminate manual efforts to create and execute test cases​

    • Generate reports and analytics about test results​

  • Capital projects handover

    Continuous handover of engineering data like builds of material, 3D data, P&IDs, docs, Specs to operations for increased customer satisfaction​.

    Benefits of the capital projects handover use case: 

    • Automated handover of data from engineering, procurement, construction (EPC) to the owner/operator (O/O)​

    • Enable an end-to-end process for EPC and O/O to collaborate on an integrated change process​

  • New product introductions

    Concurrent update of bills of material (BOM) information in planning for increased supply chain readiness​

    Benefits of the new product introduction use case:

    • Continuously reflect portfolio changes in demand planning efforts throughout the product lifecycle​

    • Reduce disruption in manufacturing by new product introduction, retirement of products, and product substitutions​

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Intelligent products –​ software test automation​

Many products include software like cars, phones, refrigerators, and watches. Software test automation for software, which is embedded in products, is critical for product success​​.

Benefits of the intelligent products use case: 

  • Eliminate manual efforts to create and execute test cases​

  • Generate reports and analytics about test results​

Planning automation area for Supply chain

Planning

Increase planning accuracy by dynamically updating planning constraints and input parameters​

  • Forecast accuracy: consider sales intelligence to improve forecasting​​

  • ”Ideal” inventory levels: dynamically update planning parameter​​

  • Risk management: consider external factors and news to predict risks​

  • New product introductions

    Concurrent update of BOM information in planning for increased supply chain readiness​.

    Benefits of new product introductions:

    • Continuously reflect portfolio changes in demand planning efforts throughout the product lifecycle​

    • Reduce disruption in manufacturing by new product introduction, retirement of products, and product substitutions​

  • Sales automation integration

    Automatic update of pipeline information for forecasting and win probability as well as bill of material fidelity for project-based sales into planning for higher forecast accuracy​

    Benefits of sales automation integration:

    • Improve demand forecast accuracy by automated inclusion of demand drivers like campaigns

    • Enable better demand and supply planning in engineer-to-order and configure-to-order industries, where the final product specification evolves during the sales cycle​​

  • Dynamic update of planning master data

    Dynamic update of cost and price information as well as other master data for planning increases the planning quality​

    Benefits of dynamic update of planning master data:

    • Enable better decision making in planning phases through more accurate financial impact insights

    • Reduce dependencies on manual adjustments of financial values in planning​

  • Automated update of order confirmation dates

    Automate update of confirmed dates for purchase orders from suppliers to avoid false assumptions about delivery dates​

    Benefits of automated update of order confirmation dates:

    • Reduce firefighting due to unexpected late deliveries of critical raw materials or data entry errors​

    • Enhance responsiveness to deviations from requested delivery schedules​

  • Interaction of service and asset schedules

    Extract the planned maintenance plans and feed these to planning, thereby reflecting the reduced capacity​

    Benefits of interaction of service and asset schedules:

    • Provide planned capacity availability reflects scheduled maintenance activities​

    • Increase plan execution feasibility​

  • Concurrent labor management

    Labor constraints such as shortage, vacation, skills, strikes, aging population need to be considered by supply chain systems to improve planning accuracy and speeds up work assignments​

    Benefits of concurrent labor management:

    • Labor constraints such as shortage, vacation, skills, strikes, and aging population, are hardly considered during supply chain planning and execution processes​

    • Proactively manage labor constraints to improve planning accuracy and work assignments

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New product introductions

Concurrent update of BOM information in planning for increased supply chain readiness​.

Benefits of new product introductions:

  • Continuously reflect portfolio changes in demand planning efforts throughout the product lifecycle​

  • Reduce disruption in manufacturing by new product introduction, retirement of products, and product substitutions​

Supply chanin automation Procurement use case

Procurement

Reduce cost of operations and increase visibility by leveraging AI for the communication between business partners​

  • Sustainable sourcing: supplier qualification and product qualification​​

  • Multi-tier traceability: adhere to regulations about products and human rights​​

  • Cost of operations: increase efficiency of procurement processes​

  • Purchase order creation checks 

    Automate the check of feasibility and viability of purchase orders and suppliers to minimize the risk of violation of company policies

    Benefits of purchase order creation checks:

    • Reduce manual effort to create purchase orders and perform viability checks​

    • Provide compliance with regulations, rules, and standards for procurement​

  • Business partner onboarding

    Enable automated onboarding of business partners. Minimize the risk of doing business with non-valid partners and making it easy to do business with partners​

    Benefits of business partner onboarding:

    • Reduce manual effort to onboard business partners such as suppliers, carriers, outsourcing partners, and design partners

    • Provide compliance with regulations, rules, and standards for sourcing​​

  • Business partner communication

    Use AI to automate communication with business partners and create a faster and more accurate communication​

    Benefits of business partner communication:

    • Reduce manual effort to work on thousands of emails and attachments and trigger appropriate actions

    • Faster, easier, and more accurate communication with all business partners

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Purchase order creation checks 

Automate the check of feasibility and viability of purchase orders and suppliers to minimize the risk of violation of company policies

Benefits of purchase order creation checks:

  • Reduce manual effort to create purchase orders and perform viability checks​

  • Provide compliance with regulations, rules, and standards for procurement​

Supply chain automation Production use case

Production

Improve product quality by concurrently updating engineering changes and consolidating quality data ​

  • Shop floor automation: high complexity of machine connectivity with processes​​

  • Product quality: needs connectivity of many systems and documents ​​

  • Labor management: missing integration with HR for labor availability and skills 

  • Product quality 

    Automatic consolidation of quality data and documents form different systems for increased product quality transparency​

    Benefits of product quality:

    • Increase product quality by leveraging quality information from contract manufacturers​

    • Increase efficiency in quality processes by reducing data-related errors

  • Product genealogy

    Continuously analyze genealogy data to identify opportunities for process optimization and quality enhancements​

    Benefits of product genealogy:

    • Eliminate manual efforts for filling out records and gather pieces of information coming from various internal solutions and suppliers' documents for building a full genealogy​

    • Automate verification of batch data and device historical records and use AI support to perform audits and to enforce best practices​

  • Impact of engineering changes 

    Automate integration between engineering and manufacturing solutions for breaking the silos​

    Benefits of Impact of engineering changes:

    • Provide product quality, compliance, and efficiency while minimizing the risk of disruptions in production, caused by engineering changes​

    • Get an end-to-end understanding of the impact of an engineering change on downstream processes like manufacturing, supply chain, logistics, and after-sales

  • Concurrent labor management

    Labor constraints such as shortage, vacation, skills, strikes, aging population, need to be considered by supply chain systems to improve planning accuracy and speed up work assignments​

    Benefits of concurrent labor management:

    • Labor constraints like shortage, vacation, skills, strikes, and aging population are hardly considered during supply chain planning and execution processes​

    • Proactively manage labor constraints to improve planning accuracy and work assignments

  • Health and safety​

    ​Keep track of local regulations changes and automate processes to implement best practices. Automate process for connecting safety policies with human resources systems for training.

    Benefits of health and safety​:

    • Keep health and safety policies aligned with changing local regulations and ensure that emergency response and crisis management processes are applied

    • End-to-end process makes sure that health and safety is an ongoing, holistic effort aimed at protecting employees, following regulations, and promoting a culture of safety within the organization​

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Product quality 

Automatic consolidation of quality data and documents form different systems for increased product quality transparency​

Benefits of product quality:

  • Increase product quality by leveraging quality information from contract manufacturers​

  • Increase efficiency in quality processes by reducing data-related errors

Supply chain automation logistics

Logistics

Grow profitability of logistics processes by automating transactional and document-based, global trade processes ​

  • Speed of delivery: same-day shipments and returns, free of charge​​

  • Global trade: complexity with import/export processes and documents​​

  • Warehouse management: missing integration with HR for labor availability and skills ​

  • Advanced shipping and receiving

    Enable multi-pick, multi-drop, and cross-warehouse loading and unloading with process orchestration between warehouse and transportation systems​

    Benefits of advanced shipping and receiving:

    • Harmonization and synchronization of warehouse and transportation processes​

    • Increase process transparency and efficiency in logistics processes by reducing data-related errors ​

  • Multi-mode of transport

    Get visibility into the heterogeneous process across different stakeholders and entities, including regulatory institutions, especially during cross-border transports​

    Benefits of multi-mode of transport:

    • Get visibility into the heterogeneous process across different stakeholders and entities, like customs, during cross-border transports​

    • Automate document verification and use AI support to perform integration for tendering, transport execution, settlement, and disputes ​

  • Global trade – material classification

    Transparency and declaration of material classifications for cross-border transactions​

    Benefits of global trade – material classification:

    • Transparency in processing material classification at cross-border transactions​

    • Automate document verification and use artificial intelligence (AI) support to perform compliance for export and import control regulations​

  • Concurrent labor management​

    Labor constraints like shortage, vacation, skills, strikes, aging population need to be considered by supply chain systems to improves planning accuracy and speeds up work assignments​

    Benefits of concurrent labor management:

    • Labor constraints like shortage, vacation, skills, strikes, and aging population are hardly considered during supply chain planning and execution processes​

    • Proactively manage labor constraints to improve planning accuracy and work assignments ​​

  • Health and safety

    Keep track of local regulations changes and automate processes to implement best practices. Automate process for connecting safety policies with HR systems for training.

    Benefits of health and safety:

    • Keep health and safety policy aligned with changing local regulations and ensure that emergency response and crisis management processes are applied​

    • End-to-end process makes sure that health and safety is an ongoing, holistic effort aimed at protecting employees, following regulations, and promoting a culture of safety within the organization

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Advanced shipping and receiving

Enable multi-pick, multi-drop, and cross-warehouse loading and unloading with process orchestration between warehouse and transportation systems​

Benefits of advanced shipping and receiving:

  • Harmonization and synchronization of warehouse and transportation processes​

  • Increase process transparency and efficiency in logistics processes by reducing data-related errors ​

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