Steel group reduces purchasing costs by up to 30 percent with RPA
Steel group reduces purchasing costs by up to 30 percent with RPA
2 Pageswww.servicetrace.de/en/ Robotic Process Automation | Case Study One of the world‘s leading steel manufacturers coopera- tes with numerous suppliers around the globe. This means the manufacturer has to manage 3,500 supplier contracts every year: When exactly do these contracts expire, what volume of orders does this supplier contract handle, how do the contract terms compare with the current market si- tuation - should the contract be put out to tender again? In addition, purchasers have to enter and compare nume- rous details about suppliers and contracts in SAP and a data warehouse - manually very time-consuming tasks for which the purchasing department lacks the capacity. The contracts were therefore simply extended. Due to the high optimization potential, the steel group wanted
