supply_chain · ecommerce · workflow
Waitrose & Partners uses Blue Prism intelligent automation to streamline direct store-to-supplier ordering
Waitrose & Partners managed a complex supply chain with many UK and international suppliers and acted as a costly middleman between suppliers and individual stores, adding time and expense to product fulfillment.
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 · Store identifies low stock
A local store that is running low on a product places an order with Waitrose by the case, pallet or layer.
Tools used
Blue Prism digital workers
Outcome
Intelligent automation delivered significant time and cost savings; when branches order directly from suppliers, Waitrose's fulfillment cost is cut in half, and those savings are passed along to shoppers.
Results
Cost replacedsignificant time and cost savings
Grounding & classification
Source type: vendor customer story
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