Example 2 – Customer Order Processing

Orders placed on many of the e-commerce websites may then have to be placed on the actual repositories for the actual dispatch and also to maintain the inventory recordings different than the customer-facing orders. Such data entry processes can be handed over to the RPA solutions as the whole process of order placement will be automated from end to end. This can be maintained better than having any manual errors that could be caused out of misunderstandings.

Advantages of customer order processing with Robotic Process Automation

· Improved customer experience

· Eliminates manual entry time

· Improves data control

· Reduces costs

· High flexibility

· Improved ROI

Example 3 – Incoming Customer E-mail Query Processing

If you are a support Organization that needs to answer to those thousands of emails that get bombarded at your inboxes for responses, you could definitely get away from that situation and have RPA look after them for you. Common issues or emails can be segregated to groups and responses to such emails can be given by the RPA solution whereas the critical ones which are not ascertained into a group can be handled by the respective personnel.

Advantages of automating email query processing:

· Increases scale and scope of email campaigns

· Boosts ROI on staff costs

· Empowers your team to get better results

· Increases average order value

· Improves customer lifetime value

· Gives space for strategic thinking

Example 4 – Transferring Data from one system to another

Irrespective of the causes why Organizations do not spend enough time to manage their data for backups or restorations, these processes can be fully automated with the RPA solutions by providing them with the required credentials, source and destination details for the whole task to be automated. Monitoring the whole process can also be handled by the RPA solution, the human task can be generated if there is a requirement for human intervention.

Benefits of Automating data transfers between the systems

· Saves administration hours

· Reduces the possibility of human errors

· Eliminates delays and bottlenecks due to manual process

· Streamlines the data transfer process and help in conserving the resources

· Level up’s transparency and control with automated reporting.

Example 5 – Call center operations

Call centres to any type of organization would like to have all the information about a customer on a single screen instead of looking into different applications to gain access about various kinds of details. RPA can pitch in well to do the website scraping and get all the intended information to a single place and do the required manipulation (if any) for the call center executive, giving them the only one view with all the required details.

Advantages of RPA implementation:

· Shorter average call duration

· Reduces the errors to a maximum extent

· Improved communication

· Optimal use of resources

· Automated responses and triggers.

Example 6 – Payroll Processing

Payroll processing is one such an example that needs manual intervention month after month, every year. RPA system can be used instead to extract the details that are required from hand-written timesheets and calculate the pay from their stipulated CTC’s and pay them as well (by making the necessary bank transactions as well).

Advantages of Payroll automation:

· Generates accurate payslips

· Payroll calculation and deductions at a faster rate

· Generate accurate payslips

· Calculate expenses, bonuses, holiday pay, etc, with minimum efforts

· Reduces the burden of compliance

· Eliminates the need to understand complex tax legislation

· Stores and organizes the data related to payslips and annual reports in an easily accessible and secure way.

Example 7 – Forms Processing

Many of the Organization have to process forms for any initial process to trigger in their system and which also forms the paper-based proof that can be saved for further use in investigations. Processes as like these can be automated such that the forms can be read by a RPA solution and then the manual data entry to the applications where these forms are processed, can be done by the RPA solution.

Advantages of Forms Automation:

· Reduced costs

· Improved productivity

· Fast Processing

· Remote access

· Reduced paper cost and storage

· Checklist Automation

· Enhanced auditing

Example 8 – Client profile updates

Organizations as like Facebook and the like might have to face such issues, where the client-base is spread across all the geographies and also frequent calls to the back-end databases can also cause issues in the whole application processing. Such requests are then taken control by RPA based solutions which can process these requests in batches instead of one after the other, as and when they are received to stipulate the load on the back-end systems and also to ensure better performance to the whole application.

Example 9 – Generating Premium renewals

Insurance-based organizations have to provide with the insured the premium renewal receipts when the premium renewals are paid online or offline. Generating these premium renewals for every premium paid for each insurance policy can be handed over to a RPA solution which can do this activity 24 x 7 and without even any manual intervention during the process.

Example 10 – Claims Processing

Many of the Insurance companies have to process claims that are raised against insured members for any initial process to trigger claims processing in their system and which also forms the paper-based proof that can be saved for further use in investigations. Processes as like these can be automated such that the forms can be read by a RPA solution and then the manual data entry to the applications where these claims are processed, can be done by the RPA solution.

Example 11 – Underwriting Processing

Insurance companies maintain the details of all the customers who come to them or request details about their insurance products and these records are maintained as underwriting records, until they become customers to the insurance company. The process of converting a business prospect to an actual business customer can be fully automated with all the details that are required to be provided to a RPA solution so that these can be processed without any human intervention from the insurance company side.

Example 12 – Policy administration & servicing

Insurance companies that dispense insurance policies to the insured individuals also have to take care of the issues that they face during the lifecycle of the policy, have to be answered. These issues are usually reported to the insurance companies via emails, IVR calls which do not necessarily have to be human beings, which is a big advantage for the Insurance companies to happily replace with the RPA software robots.

Example 13 – Requests for Overdraft protection

Banking organizations can also handle the overdrafts over saving accounts of individuals and also organizations. Banks can define specific sets of rules on how these requests can be classified and then the human intervention can be curtailed to the minimum. Once a fair picture is decided upon, then the responsibility of handling all the incoming overdraft requests of individuals and organizations can be safely handed over to the RPA software robots. Exceptions are anyways handled in a different manner than the usual and regarding the same, we can discuss about this further in the below section.

Example 14 – Exception Processing

Exceptions, be it in the Banking or the Insurance industries, exceptions in any line of business can also be pre-defined with a definite set of rules and based on the rules, processing these exceptions is not a tough process for a software robot as well – does it? RPA software robots can definitely fill the void of a human being to classify the exceptions accordingly and also to process them without any problem.

Example 15 – Account Reconciliation

Requests as like statement reconciliation is a very regular and a common request that an individual or an organization might have in the Banking space or the Insurance space. These kinds of requests are well handled by the RPA software robots, once when they are given all that they require to comfortably replace the human beings who would have to do these jobs. With this option, the replaced human beings can get into something pressing in the organizations that they work and can prove to be more worthy than just doing the same old monotonous jobs.

Advantages of Automating Account Reconciliation process

· Reduce duplicate payments

· Improve efficiency

· Saves time in manually verifying your bank statements.

· Enhance the speed of the processes.

· Provides enough time for the finance team to concentrate on key account payable tasks

Example 16 – Credit card applications

Banks can appoint RPA software robots to take up the complete responsibility of the initiating a credit card application, to gather all the required documents from the individuals, make the necessary credit checks, background checks on itself, decision making whether or not an individual is eligible for a credit card based on the details that are provided in the step earlier, issue a new card if they are eligible and on successful delivery of the card the case can be closed. The whole process is so systematic that this can be easily handed to the RPA software robots comfortably.

Advantages of Automating Credit Card Applications

· Improves employee productivity

· Anywhere Anytime access to online documents.

· Availability of efficient methods to crosscheck operational metrics for process excellence.

· Reduce turnaround time

· High customer satisfaction

Example 17 – Dispute resolution:

Handling disputes in the Banking space has also been an area of concern where there is a numerous number of human beings involved where the rules that are already laid out can be sufficient enough for the RPA software robots to take up the responsibility and get going with the process. Banks might start working on this as a pilot with a limited number of personnel only to look after or monitor the situation and make the necessary suggestions to the existing process of dispute handling by the RPA software robots.

Advantages of using RPA in Dispute Resolution

· Faster resolving of problems

· Archives immense customer satisfaction

· Instant services

· Improved process

Example 18 – Patient registration

Hospitals surface a huge number of patients coming on a daily basis to get their health issues resolved, but having those patient registrations in manual log books or handing them out manual tokens will cause a lot of confusion when the same patient keeps coming for various other health issues. Hospitals can’t waste their resources on keeping track of these details on a manual basis for a long time, hence such patient registrations can be done by the RPA software robots which have all the information required for them to guide the patients who turn up at the Hospitals for their treatment. There is always a possibility that these software robots be monitored for ensuring the process being followed in the right manner.

Advantages of Automation in Patient Registration

· Reduce errors in registrations

· Labor savings

· Improved consistency and quality

· Enhanced throughput

Example 19 – Shipping notifications:

e-Commerce websites and Logistics companies can reap loads of benefits from the RPA software robots as these kinds of activities can be fully automated without the intervention of any human being at all. Since these details can be fetched from the provider databases and the shipments can be tracked for delivery over GPS, this can comfortably be automated.

Advantages of Automating Shipping Notifications

· Reduce labour cost

· Allows streamlining of multiple tasks into one process.

· Increased accuracy

· Avoids dimensional weight surcharges.

Example 20 – Member eligibility and billing:

Banks, Insurance companies can deploy these RPA based solutions to quickly check the eligibilities of individuals, organizations for various products that they approach the banks or the insurance companies for. These processes do not necessarily require human intervention and based on this, the solutions from the banks and the insurance companies can be made available online so that they can make use of these facilities from the comfort of their home as well.

Advantages of using Automation in Member eligibility and billing

· Speed processing of applications

· Automated verification

· Easy process

· High customer engagement

Example 21 – Benefits administration

Benefits that individuals would want to redeem based on the points that they accrue, can also be automated. These solutions can be deployed for various products of banks, can be deployed for various organizations who want to appreciate their colleagues for the work that they do – and these as usual, do not require human intervention to be present at all. The points can be redeemed against products, services and/or for various other resources which can be handled by the RPA based software robots with the utmost ease.

Benefits of Automating Administration

· Automates repetitive tasks

· Saves time & cost

· Improves productivity

Example 22 – On boarding

On boarding into organizations requires a certain process to be followed, in which case, in recent days there are lot of individuals who are hired to ease this process. This process can be fully automated with the RPA based software robots to ensure that the required details are provided to the new individuals who join and also get the needed information from them to safeguard a smooth onboarding process for the new individuals.

Onboarding automation benefits

· Saves a lot of time and money

· Data collection becomes more efficient

· No possibility to commit errors

· Enhanced security for storing employee data while on boarding

Example 23 – System access and setup:

Individuals joining new into Organizations would require their office setup again without human intervention as based on the roles that these individuals join into the Organization, the resources that they are supposed to be receiving do not change and the process of distribution and the necessary setups can be fully automated without the involvement of any human being. Monitoring is also not required as this is the best forms of fuller automation without a bit being missed.

Advantages of automating System access and setup

· Accuracy

· Efficiency

· Scalability

· Convenience

Example 24 – Compliance reporting

Organizations, when they grow in size, gets tough to closely monitor on the compliances that each of them has to follow. The software compliance where individuals who try to install private softwares that are not recommended by the Organizations are installed for individual use can be easily caught red-handed when these RPA based software robots are installed for the Software compliance. Just like this, there can be different kinds of compliances that an Organization tries to maintain and based on each of those requirements, there can be different kinds of compliance-based software robots managing this work for an Organization.

Advantages of Compliance automation:

· Highly controllable and cost-effective compared to the manual process

· The single dashboard is enough for checking the audit information and compliance status

· More informed decisions based on real-time data

· Finds the weak areas and threats from third party risks.

· Reduces compliance fines or breaches.

Example 25 – Change of address processing

Changes of address in passports, Aadhar, PAN, SSN’s can be handled by the RPA based software robots which have to take in the incoming requests, trigger the corresponding workflows, verify the details provided by the individuals and based on the outcome the details need to be persisted to the corresponding databases. This process is a complete rule-based and the process laid out will be impeccable and hence the perfect scenario for it to be automated with the RPA based software robots.

Benefits of change of address processing

· Reduces human intervention

· Error-free

· Highly secured

Example 26 – Fraudulent account closing

Accounts pertaining to banks, organizations, applications, services and what not – all of these need to be monitored for positive usage and anything that goes suspicious ought to be reported. Doing such a process manually going through logs on a continuous basis is not a viable option for an individual to do so and hence yet another scenario that was made for an RPA based software robot to take up.

Benefits of Automating fraud detection:

1. Achieve timely insight into fraud and control issues

2. Improve team efficiency through automation

3. Scope increased through multiple business processes

Example 27 – Customer complaints processing

Customer complaints irrespective of the type and line of business can be increased in an exponential basis depending upon the customer base that the business holds. Customer complaints that are logged can be made logged against a present set of issues and each of the newer issues that get raised can be categorized into these issue categories by the RPA based software robots. Based on each of these categories, there can be possible solutions that can be suggested to the customers right away. Doing so, the customer complaints can be answered 24 x 7 instead of 8 hours a day and only 5 days a week.

Benefits of customer complaints processing automation:

· Streamline your process

· Lowers operating costs

· Swift checkout

· Increases revenue

· Enhances customer retention rate

Example 28 – Data cleansing

Data cleansing is also a good example where the unwanted details and data can be classified earlier and rules are laid out on what classifies to be bad data. Once the bad data is identified, this can be automatically cleansed by the RPA based software robots instead of human beings sitting for hours to do that which can get frustrating given the volumes of data that has to be handled on a daily basis.

Advantages of automating data cleansing process.

· Increased revenue

· Increased productivity

· Better business decisions

· Saves a lot of time

Example 29 – Straight-through processing of customer orders

Customer orders can be fulfilled without any hurdles that can come across because of human intervention. RPA based software robots can take up the whole process of handling these orders and systematically update each of the order once when done whereas the case when humans take up this activity might have issues or errors.

Advantages of implementing automation in Order Processing:

· Eliminates manual entry time

· Eliminates errors in order processing

· Reduces your accounting costs

· Improved data control

· Faster shipping

· Process order from anywhere

Example 30 – Order Updates

As discussed earlier, each of the e-Commerce websites or the logistics companies can put these RPA based software robots to use in providing the order updates to the customers without waiting on individuals to do so (based on the 8 hour time frame of a working day).

Benefits of Automating Order updates

1. Create a sense of ownership for your customers

2. Eliminate manual entry time

3. Eliminate errors in Order Processing

4. Reduce your accounting costs

5. Increase your data control

6. Pricing validation

7. Process orders from Anywhere

Conclusion

In this article, we have gone through around 30 practical implementations where Robotic Process Automation can and has found its implementation. By this discussion, you might have been able to understand that any business process which satisfies the rule of thumb (rules-based, repeatable, manual, monotonous job) can be automated by the help of Robotic Process Automation software.

Non-technical staff should be able to build the simple RPA models and solutions without the intervention of the IT department, but for enterprise-level automation – it is better to have consultants included to understand the exact business scenario and based on that the solution can be suggested. You can claim that the RPA is best used when the boring repetitive tasks are handed over to RPA software and the employees are dealing with the non-standard knowledge-intensive tasks.

Hope you have gained the required knowledge and also understood the scenarios where one can suggest having Robotic Process Automation software to pitch in, to automate the boring and repetitive tasks for good. Please provide your feedback through your comments on the comments section of the article.