Following are some jobs Robots have been trained to perform within Supply Chain:
Category management
- Categorization and processing of spend categories to set strategy and monitor performance
- Create automated reporting and workbooks as key strategy inputs
Contract management
- Contract creation, updates and management of contract data in repository
- Ongoing contract compliance and monitoring, including contact obligations and SLA performance
Strategic sourcing
- Perform supplier market research and analysis
- Identify and select suppliers based on pre-defined criteria
- Perform eRFX/reverse auctions
Supplier relationship management
- Supplier qualification and set-up
- Advanced shipping notifications
- Supplier portal updates and integration with internal systems
- Automation and integration of other key performance management data (on-time delivery, quality, cost, etc.)
Supplier risk management
- Complex/outsourcing contract compliance management
- Inbound product quality testing and compliance reporting
- Monitoring and real time notification of risk events
- On-going operational risk management (e.g. financial, legal, reputational, etc.)
Procurement data management
- Material master data management
- Contract data management
- Vendor master data management
Travel and expense management
- Travel and expense claim processing
- Travel and expense claim review and approval
Requisition to pay
- Purchase order creation, approval and final matching
- Matching and reconciliation of invoice and goods receipt
Scorecards and dashboards
- Create scorecards and dashboards
- Collect data from multiple sources
- Archiving of data for multi-period analysis
Spend analytics and reporting
- Data capture and cleansing to support automated generation of reports
- Pre-populating complex periodic reporting requirements