Use Cases

Retail

Use Case: Order Entry

Background:

  • World’s largest home furnishing retailer, with 135,000 co-workers and operations in 43 countries
  • 775M customers visit stores every year

Challenges:

  • Delivery scheduling process includes 23 different systems
  • High error rate

Implementation:

  • Robotic Automation automatically checks for customer orders which include 3rd party manufactured goods, and generates stickers for their boxes
  • The solution presents callouts on agents’ screens, with consolidated information for open delivery slots based on region and type of goods

Benefits:

  • 100% human errors were eliminated
  • 1000 hours were saved annually

Use Case: Automatic Delivery Scheduling

Background:

  • World’s largest home furnishing retailer, with 135,000 co-workers and operations in 43 countries
  • 775M customers visit stores every year

Challenges:

  • Customer uses an automatic IVR to schedule deliveries
  • The IVR creates two Excel files:
    • Success – a list of order numbers and their delivery date and time
    • Error list – a list of order numbers which include an error in scheduling a delivery

Implementation:

  • Unattended Robots:
    • Review success list and enter delivery requests
    • Work with 23 different delivery vendors in different geographies
    • Handle 150,000 delivery records annually (4,000 hours annually)
  • Attended Robots:
    • Review error list and present agent with delivery times and customer’s phone number (agents would then call customers to re-schedule)
    • 50,000 Delivery records annually
    • Saves more than 1000 hours annually

Benefits:

  • 16 FTE’s work saved
  • Human errors eliminated