Automating business processes is an important factor for a company’s success, especially for enterprises that are part of the supply chain for energy and chemicals. Automated processes increase operational efficiency, optimize throughput times, facilitate operational transparency and improve flexibility when adapting to changes in business processes.
In an industry responsible for processing and handling hazardous goods, it is especially worthwhile to replace error-prone manual work with automated processes by digitalizing business processes on an end-to-end basis. Add that to the scarcity of qualified employees and automation becomes a foolproof form of insulation for any business against the effects of employee turnover.
Through intelligent business process automation, OpenTAS’ iBPA provides consulting and implementation services that are tailored to meet the needs of the energy and chemical industries: starting with an initial end-to-end assessment to identify use cases through to a detailed requirements and process analysis and finishing with successful implementation.
iBPA – our intelligent business automation services – enable you to deploy IT solutions quickly and efficiently in pursuit of automation. We offer comprehensive consulting services, working with you to develop automation scenarios and implement measures rapidly to embed these solutions within your operational processes. Manual activities can be automated quickly and cost-effectively both internally and for your customers thanks to Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and Digital Process Automation (DPA) tools.
A scenario: Imagine you are working in an office, and you receive multiple emails containing essential master data such as vessel and railcar movements or the day-end closing figures of multiple gas stations. RPA and DPA help you to categorize this email flow, understand the information in the emails and extract it. Using the power of pre-trained AI models, RPA and DPA tools can even forward this information within a specific context to an on-premises system or cloud application for further processing. In other words: No more copying data from one screen to another.
Our consulting services help you to develop these automation scenarios, ensuring each process is tailored to meet your specific needs. This is complemented by our rapid implementation capabilities, allowing you to see tangible results quickly.
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Assessing your potential for digital automation
In today’s fast-paced world, where one technological advancement comes hot on the heels of the next, it is essential to focus a company’s always scarce resources – money and time – on efforts that genuinely pay off. This is why we have developed a consulting service that evaluates which areas your business could leverage business automation most effectively. We thoroughly evaluate your digital automation potential in a fast-track workshop within the space of a few days. This paves the way for enhanced operational efficiency and provides you with a clear digitalization roadmap.
To identify the most promising areas:
Our industry and technology experts work hand –in hand to provide an intelligent scope of automation to serve as our basis for further action. This enables specific departments to focus on more pressing topics such as customer services, slot planning, jetty scheduling and the like.
Your benefits include:
The holistic perception of how your operations and business is run, will enable you to not focus your CAPEX on ideas and waste scares resources but pick the right ones based on numbers.
Customizations within a brownfield environment are often tedious. Our technology stack will enable to blend traditional operational excellence driven by long-term employees with innovation-driven ideas of new employees.
To maintain a competitive edge in the market, there is a growing emphasis on streamlining employee roles. By leveraging automation of simple workflows, businesses can achieve market leadership while empowering their workforce to focus on higher-value tasks without becoming overwhelmed.
Having KPIs based on processes is a challenge. There are many factors that need to be considered, e. g. what is the average size of a ship to calculate turnover rates correctly and make them comparable even by product to foster data-driven decision-making. Our offer addresses this gap with measures aiming at elevated mid- and downstream operations.
Manual work may cause friction within your operation. It might be the railcar identifier that had two digits twisted or a missing digit while copying the measurement data from the paper-weighing note to an MES-system. However, automation of such entries, e. g. with OCR eliminates these risks.
As a KRITIS company, legal compliance is at the forefront but these legal requirements are often pushed to the back in times of changes. We put the finger into the wound, listing each process’ legal requirements such as ADR to be complied with.
53% return of investment for the automation of tank wagons for 24/7 operation within one year.
If you wish to remain competitive and agile in the energy and chemicals industry, digital transformation and process automation are simply unavoidable.
Take advantage of the end-to-end expertise that only OpenTAS can provide – based on 40 years of experience and our unparalleled understanding of the industry.
Our consulting experts are there for you.
Sabrina Hilmer
Intelligent Automation Consulting Director
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