Week 1: Get Started with SAP Intelligent RPA 2.

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Unit 1: Introduction
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openSAP course overview

Weeks 1 through 5
Video 1 Self-test 1
Week 1
▪ 5-7 video units and self-tests
Get Started with Video 2 Self-test 2
▪ 1 weekly assignment
SAP Intelligent Video n Self-test n
▪ Online discussion forum (collaborate, ask questions)
RPA 2.0
Weekly assignment
▪ ~3-4 hours of effort each week
▪ Optional: Hands-on exercises Week 2 First Automations

Week 6 Week 3 Build Your End-to-End Project

▪ Final exam
Week 4 Leverage a Rich Desktop Ecosystem
Record of achievement
▪ Collect at least 50% of the total points available in all online Week 5 Leverage Business Applications

tests during the course

Week 6 Final exam

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What is robotic process automation?

Robotic Process Automation (RPA)

Accelerates digital transformation of business processes by automatically replicating tedious actions to

free up human workers for more high-value tasks

Unattended:

Fully automated process, where robots work autonomously with human

supervision only

Attended:

Partially automated process, where robots co-work with humans, also called
robotic desktop automation (RDA).

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How the SAP Intelligent RPA solution delivers business value

Improve Operations Increase Compliance

Mobilize resources for high- Maintain well-documented
value tasks at lower cost audit trails

Increase Service Quality Reduce Human Error

Reduce processing times for
Automate to gain speed
revenue-generating
and efficiency
transactions

Compliant with Your Provide Quick ROI

Infrastructure Can be implemented in
Underlying IT landscape just a few weeks
can remain untouched

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Typical use cases and return on investment for our customers

75% workload reduction, x50 faster Extract data through various

processing speed (25 mins → 30 secs) using connectors, e.g. Excel, pdf, external
the dedicated "working hour Application" apps, Web sites, 3rd-party apps, and
enter in a finance system

Financial closing at global scale: 100+

subsidiaries leveraging automation Download various reports, collate and
every month, 2x-4x faster processing of save on shared drive
closing task

Improved user experience with SAP

Check ticket inbox in a shared
Intelligent RPA + SAP Conversational AI +
service center and route to bots
Service Ticket Intelligence

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Use case typology

Tedious Process Hidden & Repetitive Tasks

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Use case without robot

… a process that needs to copy and paste information from one application to another every morning.

▪ User fills in form on internal site from local desktop

▪ Support team gets the request
▪ Support team inputs data manually in the asset management system
▪ Just two-day SLA to acknowledge the request
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Use case with robot

▪ User still fills in the form on the internal site from the local desktop
▪ Robot takes charge of reading the 100+ forms and inputs the information in the destination system
▪ Support team follows up the requests, quietly but efficiently

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Use case constraints

▪ Too expensive to add a user-friendly interface in the asset

management system
▪ No time to add Web service between the two applications
▪ No time for migration: planned, but some years from now

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Purchase order creation – Manual steps

Incoming purchase Analyze and extract Enter in ERP Repetitive order

orders the content creation

You receive tons of You need to understand You need to manually Manual, tedious, repetitive,
purchase orders via the information and record the purchase order in error-prone task leads to
email every day. extract the relevant data your ERP system, long queues and frustrated
from the documents and navigating through different employees and customers.
You need to identify and
store it in a task list. screens and typing the order
filter them.
information.

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Purchase order creation – Automated Spreadsheet

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Use case criteria

Manual and High Volume

Repetitive

Workaround for
Multiple Systems
Native Integration

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