SOLUTION BRIEF

RPA BUILT FOR SAP®

WINSHUTTLE ROBOTIC
PROCESS AUTOMATION
SOLUTIONS

Empower business teams with an RPA solution designed for SAP

Many enterprise applications, including SAP’s ERP platform, require a lot of manual, repetitive work—work that can drain morale, lower
productivity, and introduce data errors. Robotic Process Automation (RPA) done correctly ‘takes the robot out of the human,’ saving
thousands of hours each year and enabling your people to work on higher-value tasks and make a real impact on the business.

Hype vs. reality

92%
of businesses surveyed plan to
63%
of survey respondents indicated that
>50%
of RPA budgets were spent last year
adopt RPA by 2020. the implementation speed of RPA didn’t on third parties, such as consultants
ISG Research, June 2018 live up to expectations. and IT service providers.
Deloitte: The Robots are Ready. Are you? ISG Research, June 2018

Over the past few years, there’s been a lot of hype around RPA, but many projects have failed to deliver promised benefits and have been plagued
by cost overruns. The reason in many cases is not the technology itself, but simply the lack of rigor in selecting and implementing the right tool.

Choose the right tool Proven time savings

for the right job from Winshuttle
If the process you’re automating involves your SAP ERP system,
it’s wise to turn to a purpose-built solution, rather than a generic SAP TRANSACTION AVG. WORKING PROCESSING
RPA tool that only interfaces with SAP at the GUI level. CODE DAYS SAVED TIME SAVED
VK11 - Create Condition
Generic RPA tools are not suited to complex, multi-stage SAP 1,782 79%
Records
processes with the robotic solution liable to fail when something
as small as a change in screen resolution occurs. MM02 - Change Material 959 77%

In addition, even what seems like a simple process from the XD02 - Customer Change 404 89%
outset can be complex and time-consuming to automate, as
exception handling, delays in system performance and other ME12 - Change Purchase
392 83%
factors must be built into the process by technical resources. Info Request

This integration with SAP at the presentation layer can result in: FB60 - Enter Vendor Invoice 82 95%

• Longer implementation times and higher project costs

FB01 - Post Document 286 91%
• Expensive and time-consuming fixes
• Outright project failure
VA02 - Change Sales Order 127 67%
 Business users execute
Authors in the

A better way to
processes using Excel
business or IT record
with Winshuttle add-in
transactions with
or Winshuttle-enabled

automate SAP processes

Winshuttle Studio
web forms

With Winshuttle software, business users record the

process they want to automate by stepping through
the process in the SAP GUI—the key difference is what
Execution is 4 times
happens in the background. Instead of just saving CAN RECORD faster than RPA
THROUGH SAP GUI
cursor position, label names and clicks, as is the case generic tools
with generic RPA tools, Winshuttle software records
SAP GUI

system-level data (table and field information) in the

SCRIPT SAVES
automation script. SYSTEM LEVEL DATA

That script is then mapped to either an Excel

SCRIPT EXECUTES
workbook or web form which business people use THROUGH THE
to provide or review data. The Winshuttle script APPLICATION LAYER

exchanges data with SAP in the background via direct

RFC calls, without rendering all the screens in the SAP
GUI, improving performance by 400%*, and making
*Performance comparison made processing an MM02 (material change) transaction with 1000
the solution immune to any interface changes that records and about 25 fields to update per record. Using a Winshuttle automation script, the task was
can cause generic robotic solutions to crash. processed four times quicker than using an RPA generic approach, under the same system conditions.

We’re seeing productivity improvements on the

Get faster ROI
with proven RPA
technology
While most generic RPA tools require 3-to-6 months for
initial implementation and then between 2-4 weeks to
automate each process, an RPA solution built for SAP
can deliver value in a matter of weeks or even days.
order of 25,360 hours per year, which is equal to
approximately $1.3 million in personnel costs. In
addition to all that, we’re saving about $525,000
annually by booking receivables earlier than ever.
So, I guess you could say that we’ve seen much
more than a return on our Winshuttle investment.
We will see the return many, many times over.

Sean Connolly
President and CEO, Conagra Brands

Streamline any SAP business process—from simple to complex

Since 2003, Winshuttle has provided SAP-specific RPA capabilities as part of a comprehensive SAP data management platform. So while we
enable your business teams to quickly tackle the high-volume, low-complexity structured processes ideal for RPA, like those found in financial
accounting, HR, and customer services—you can also use the same platform to digitize and streamline complex master data or transactional
processes—from launching new products to onboarding new customers and vendors, and any process in between.

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