RPA in retail helps companies automate operations and seamlessly improve most of the repetitive tasks like customer complaints management, inventory management, business reporting, customer engagement, bill generation and processing as well as loyalty scheme management. As the traditional method of retail operations is changing, RPA empowers the workforce and delivers a better customer experience.
Use Cases of RPA in Retail
Retailers, wholesalers, and consumer products face several challenges: technology disruptions, increasing production costs, rapidly changing customer expectations, and uncertain workforce availability. RPA tackles most of these problems and has multiple applications in the retail industry.
Returns Processing
RPA helps companies save costs by effectively managing returns and making necessary changes in the inventory database and customers’ billing.
Workflow Management
RPA can help assign shifts, track time and attendance, audit payroll, sales, and leave management, and assess employee performance.
Customer support management
RPA bots save time, effort, and money by tracking an order and sending real-time updates to the customer.
ERP Management
ERP managed with RPA automates tasks like tracking price changes, billing, employee vacancies, and generating reports to minimize human efforts.
Accounting and Finance
RPA helps manage order and invoice processing, accounts payable and accounts receivable, account reconciliation, procure to pay, order to cash, record to report cycles, etc.
Marketing and Consumer Behavior Analysis
Software bots assist in quick and accurate analysis and decision making by providing campaign and consumer behavior analysis.
Demand and Supply Planning
Retailers use automation to increase capacity and asset management and improve customer, supplier, and employee satisfaction.
Logistics and Supply Chain Management
RPA promotes better communication between customers, suppliers, and distributors as well as maintains optimum inventory levels.
Benefits of RPA in Retail
Fulfills market demand with enhanced product availability.
Eliminates manual errors in business operations.
Boosts operational efficiency by taking over rote tasks.
Allows effective planning by providing real-time analytics of sales and inventory.
Faster order and return processing for higher customer satisfaction.
Frees up time of employees to focus on enhancing customer experience.
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Modernizing Retail Operations with RPA
Automation frontrunners in the retail industry are streamlining workflows to lower operating costs and significantly enhance operational efficiency, ultimately enhancing customer experience. In our webinar, Modernizing Retail Operations with Robotic Process Automation, we discussed how large retailers are using automation to solve their unique challenges, including a surge in work volume and fulfilling price-promise requests.
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- Automate unstructured data
- Let customer-facing functions efficiently handle automation
- Automate processes with attended, unattended, or hybrid bots.
We work closely with our clients to identify, implement, and deliver on RPA projects that decrease manual errors, increase productivity, and ensure higher compliance.