Cash allocation process turned efficient via robotic process automation

• Client profile: international logistics company present in more than 100 countries worldwide. 
• Project: RPA-powered solution meant to both digitize and automate the time-consuming, error-prone, manual cash allocation process within the client's shared services centre. 

Our aim: simplify, streamline, and speed up the given process, enabling employees to accomplish their tasks in a timely manner, to successfully meet deadlines, while effectively contributing to fulfilling business needs. 

Due to a constant addition of new business, as well as our client’s worldwide distribution, the company recognized the need for their cash allocation process to get a digital makeover. 

• The process relied on ever increasing manual work and amounts of paper, as well as a constant switch between physical and digital systems, and stakeholders involved. 
• The process included both weekly and monthly peak periods, during which employees dealt with two times, respectively three times the normal workload. Though the company tried to solve this issue by reinforcing the workforce allocated, delays and errors were still registered for the cash allocation flow. 
• No SOP (standard operating procedure) was put in place for the cash allocation process, again leaving room for errors within the flow. 

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• Process standardization: during the process modelling phase, our consultants challenged the status quo and helped simplify and streamline the cash allocation process by putting a standard operating procedure in place. 
• Process optimisation: the result of applying robotic process automation to the cash allocation process is a 50% boost in productivity. 
• Increased efficiency: since employing the high-performing suite of robots designed and developed by Accesa, deadlines are met during peak periods as well, regardless of workload volume, with 100% accuracy. 
• Boosted employee satisfaction: employees were relieved of the manual, error-prone steps of the process and could now focus on more value-adding tasks. 
• Automated reporting: the robots generate detailed reports of their work, replacing the considerable amounts of manual reporting necessary up to that point. In addition, the solution provides an electronic history of every action the robots have taken, granting everyone involved a clear overview. 
• Scalability & flexibility: additional robots could be employed during peak periods to ensure the entire workload is managed without additional user intervention. 

Besides the actual robotic process automation applied to the cash allocation process, this project also consisted in a company-wide analysis of the given process, shedding light on various opportunities to make it easier to work with, as well as more effective and efficient in contributing to overall business growth.