How Robotic Process Automation Is Leading To Supply Chain Automation

A research report by Deloitte says about 64% companies have embarked on the journey to implement Robotic Process Automation (RPA) in order to automate support tasks. The same report outlined a critical fact that not jobs, but tasks are being automated, allowing employees to focus on high-value activities, freeing them of monotonous pieces of work across a myriad of industries. Over the decades, enterprises have invested time, money and multiple other resources in building their supply chain infrastructures and processes. Even though the majority of stakeholders ranging from manufacturers, retailers to logistics providers have adopted some type of supply chain management system, the key challenge of end to end data integration along with process automation remains. Users still, to this day, continue to copy/paste data manually between disparate systems in order to maintain communication and data exchange on a day to day basis.