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John Lewis & Partners Gets Products Ready for Resale with Intelligent Automation
When a customer requests a refund, John Lewis & Partners must quickly decide whether a product can be resold or returned to the warehouse; without an efficient process, the retailer faced stock write-offs and unnecessary handling and transit costs.
How it works
Common implementation structure
How this type of workflow is generally built, generalized across documented cases — not tied to any one vendor's stack. Click any stage to read what happens there. Specific products that implement these stages appear in “Tools commonly seen” below.
Stage 1 · Customer refund request
A customer requests a refund on a product.
Tools used
intelligent automationBlue Prism
Outcome
Intelligent automation streamlined the restocking process, preventing stock write-offs, reducing handling and transit costs, returning perfect merchandise to stores with fewer markdowns, and getting returned goods back on the shelf faster to increase revenue.
Results
Cost replacedreducing handling and transit costs
Grounding & classification
Source type: vendor customer story
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