Maximize SAP S/4HANA Benefits with Intelligent RPA

‘SAP Intelligent RPA speeds up your transition to an intelligent enterprise. Now with SAP IRPA, turn your mundane activities into value-added operations.’

The pandemic has undoubtedly had a significant influence on corporate goals and interests. In response to shifting elements such as consumer demands, market structure, and other new objectives, the global crisis has revolutionized enterprises and organizations once again. Even industrial automation firms have started using time and resource-efficient methods through Intelligently Automated Robotic Processes (IRPA).

RPA or IRPA is being used by businesses to quickly serve the consumers, overhaul their activities to distribute roles, and cut expenses amid these economic turbulences. Most companies are taking this time as an opportunity to undertake their SAP RPA transformation journey.

Here we have outlined the several significant factors how SAP RPA is benefiting enterprises by enhancing company efficiency and productivity.

What is SAP RPA?

SAP Robotic process automation works as a tool that enables routine, regular business operations to be automated.

For traditional automation solutions, each step has to be hardcoded manually into your SAP system.

RPA employs AI and machine learning to learn to execute different operations by monitoring the users’ go through the processes.

This technology helps businesses to optimize processes in distinctive sectors like supply chain management, database management, and purchase requisition administrative activities.

SAP Intelligent RPA helps enterprises to automate these processes and enhance productivity, reduce operational implementation time and achieve significantly high ROIs, and more.

SAP RPA Adds Strategic Value to the Business

Key functional benefits of RPA with S/4 HANA system:

• Improve Overall Operations
• Significantly, Improve user satisfaction: SAP claims that implementing RPA can deliver 20x faster ROI in less than 1 month.
• Reduce Manual Errors
• Accelerate Digital Transformation
• Employ New Tech like AI or ML or IoT
• Allow parallelization and instant scalability
• Reinforce compliance
• Generate savings
• Save time
• Increase processing speed
• Work 24/7 non-stop

The Significant Benefiting Sectors within the Business

Shared Services

S/4 HANA Functions:

• Manage payment advice
• Financial closing task list automation
• Manage bank statements
• Claims processing

Added benefits of IRPA: Execute faster, reduce errors, optimize processes & resources by automating manual tasks

Database Management

S/4 HANA Function:

• Data migration and entry
• New employee onboarding
• Contract data maintenance

Added benefits of IRPA: Faster onboarding for employees and customers, consistent master data

Customer Service

S/4 HANA Function:

• Customer onboarding
• Return tasks
• Sales quotations, order processing, and data entry

Added benefits of IRPA: Increase customer satisfaction and higher throughput

Financial Management

S/4 HANA Function:

• Financial Closing
• G/L allocation
• Cash operations automation
• Asset accounting operation
• Bank integration with FSI

Added benefits of IRPA: Faster financial closing, lower manual efforts and optimize resources

Operational Management

S/4 HANA Function:

• Purchase Order automation
• Supplier classification & segmentation
• Master data management
• IT service ticket assignment & resolution

Added benefits of IRPA: Manual task automation, monitoring and visibility

Streamline and speed up S/4 HANA Migration

Because the S/4 HANA Migration initiative might last upto 12 months. During this time, ensuring business continuity and minimizing business downtime are two critical pointers for any organization during this period. This often implies that the operation of the old system is running parallel with the new S/4 HANA system. This procedure is resource-intensive, both in terms of manpower, time, and expense.

This is where RPA technology comes to use. RPA can make quicker and cheaper transitions to S/4 HANA. Bots may be used to deal with repetitive, time-consuming, and extensive operations. It also alleviates the need for workers to focus on high-value activities and processes.

Intelligent Robotics Process Automation (IRPA) can be used to automate specific sub-steps of complicated enterprise processes.

SAP RPA aids S/4 HANA to push forward Organizations to transform into Intelligent Enterprises

The intelligent enterprise is an approach that enables information to be transformed into intelligence quickly – automation of processes, innovation, process improvement and customer satisfaction. The intelligent enterprise employs developing technologies such as machine learning (ML), artificial intelligence (AI), IoT, and analysis (SAC).

RPA plays a crucial role in the development of enterprises but this transformation without the support of a centralized ERP system like S/4 HANA might be next to impossible.

Just as S/4 HANA optimizes the performance of RPA in establishing intelligent enterprises, RPA also improves the function, productivity, and efficiency of the S/4 HANA solution.

Get the best-in-class integration with S/4 HANA with RPA tools specifically created for SAP Solutions

In general, companies and its’ employees have to spend a great deal of time during S/4 HANA migration. Intelligent RPA bots can address one of the greatest problems of the migration process.  It enables them to conduct tasks across numerous platforms, applications, and cloud solutions. It makes it easy for employees to transmit data while still having rapid access to different programs. Such straightforward connection enhances speed, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness.

Accelerate S/4 HANA Process Automation Using AI and Machine learning

Bots can identify and learn patterns quickly. This feature aids in the identification and automated implementation of organized and unorganized data. This self-learning maximizes the efficiency of corporate processes.

SAP intelligent RPA can supply bots that offer human-like client service. Virtual support boost user operational efficiency by automation of repetitive business processes which require human participation or intervention.

Aids to automate S/4 HANA to spare the employees to focus on High-value tasks

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RPA can deploy more than 150 Pre-build bots to further improve the efficiency of S/4 HANA in the automation of different business operations and processes. With RPA taking on repetitive actions, companies can cut on the number of employees that were previously engaged in these mundane tasks and invest in deploying staff who can work on more high-value tasks to improve the overall business output.

Why is it essential for enterprises to employ SAP RPA now more than ever?

RPA was an important factor in the delivery of digital transformation, improved performance, enhanced working power, and increased overall employee satisfaction before COVID-19. During this crisis, the RPA additionally allowed companies to respond quickly to its negative effects. This also enabled corporations to retain assets to assure continuity of operations.

With SAP S/4 HANA and SAP Intelligent Robotic Process Automation (IRPA) together, you can increase your company’s service quality, reduce operational errors, ensure compliance, and improve operations across your organization. And in the forthcoming future, SAP IRPA will assist enterprises to continue operating and expand their organizations going forward as well.