Effective Sourcing

Implemented in multibusiness wholesale and retail  company

Problem

Sourcing is one of the time-consuming operations as it involves lot of manual processes. Wholesaler’s managers shall find the best quotation from suppliers and know not only the current price but also the lead-time and availability and get an invoice as soon as possible.

You shall persistently send RFQs to dozens of suppliers, manually gather, systematize, and analyze information. About a half of working hours a manager spend for this stage of a deal. However, being timebound, a manager could select not the best supplier

Solution

Request for quotations and invoices from suppliers is a template process and may be effectively automated.

Sherpa RPA initiates the process of information gathering. Start time is a moment when data from a manager are entered into a source file.

Stage 1. Search inquiries based sourcing

Stage 2. Search for e-mail address and send personalised e-mail: quantity, bank detailes, inquiry number, contact details of a manager in charge are inserted automatically

Stage 3. The robot follows-up feedbacks

Stage 4. Suppliers list creation; data filtering. A manager makes analysis and selects

Advantages

Convenient tool for managers’ everyday work

Increased rate and efficiency of the business process

Log of the robot actions; more transparent process

Increased rate and efficiency of deals

Effective automation with no need for IT infrastructure changes:
  • Customized tool
  • No need for IT system changes and long-term integration with third-party services
  • Search for information on various goods and services at any web-site
  • Parsing protection (human actions imitation) backdoor
  • Filter acquired data and display in the form of a table
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