JBS RPA Program Achieves $4 Million Lifetime Savings Across Their Entire Organization

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After signing on Automation Anywhere, JBS initiated four processes for their automation pilot program. One of these processes handled pricing updates in the procurement department. On any given day, one—or many—of the vendors in their network of more than a thousand would submit updated pricing. Before automation, two employees were tasked with the tedious process of receiving the new pricing, reformatting excel files to fit the requirements of SAP, inputting into SAP, waiting for the contract to update, and finally specifying the validity period. This ate up about half a day. A bot was introduced to mimic this manual process, grabbing the new pricing, manipulating the excel file, populating the new pricing in SAP, updating the contract, and finally, sending an email notification to the respective manager handling that contract. The results were the proof of concept JBS was hoping for—390 hours saved annually

From there, several high-value automations were deployed amongst various business units. In the Canada office, a bot automated international shipping documentation, which not only eliminated human error in the documentation but also saved approximately 220 hours per week and $250,000 CAD annually. Saving time and money has not been the only realized benefit of automation. Within their beef operations plants, JBS deployed a bot that calculated live yield, allowing supervisors on the line to work with butchers to improve their yield and adjust their cuts in real time, resulting in more efficient beef yields.

Daniel Dinakaran, IT Director of Software Development Services, summed up the program’s thriving company-wide adoption: “Starting from 2019 until now, we have 212 bots running in production in every single department. RPA is used throughout the organization. It’s not restricted to a particular department or a few departments.”That’s an impressive outcome for sure.