finance_ops · ecommerce · workflow
Foodstuffs automates bank statement uploads and supply chain tasks with UiPath RPA, freeing 9,000 hours in one year
Up to 200 Foodstuffs store staff manually uploaded bank statements to SAP each day, taking about three minutes per statement. Smaller stores skipped daily uploads — doing them weekly or fortnightly instead — which blocked downstream payment-processing tasks. A separate supply chain task had to be completed at five o'clock in the morning and on weekends by staff working outside normal business hours.
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 · Daily upload requirement trigger
Bank statements must be uploaded to SAP daily or downstream payment tasks cannot be completed.
Tools used
UiPathUiPath Orchestrator
Outcome
UiPath robots freed around 9,000 hours in the year April 2019 to March 2020, ensured daily bank statement uploads regardless of staff availability, freed supply chain staff from unreasonable hours and weekend work, and compressed delivery invoice report delivery so all customers now receive reports consistently by 7:30am on Monday.
Results
Time savedaround 9,000 hours
Volume200 stores
Running sinceby April 2019
Grounding & classification
Source type: vendor customer story
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