Now, to help customers jump-start their automation programs, we’re thrilled to include a new starter pack of Â鶹ԭ´´ Build Process Automation in the public edition of Â鶹ԭ´´ S/4HANA Cloud.

The Â鶹ԭ´´ Build Process Automation solution integrates seamlessly with Â鶹ԭ´´ S/4HANA Cloud to improve the processes that are already running by decreasing processing times, improving service quality, and reducing manual errors.

As a low-code solution in the Â鶹ԭ´´ Build portfolio, it gives the business experts closest to Â鶹ԭ´´ S/4HANA Cloud tasks the ability to build processes and approvals, automate routine tasks with robotic process automation (RPA), and leverage built-in artificial intelligence (AI) for automatic data extraction of PDFs, excels, and more.

Automation Starter Pack with RISE with Â鶹ԭ´´

The starter pack of Â鶹ԭ´´ Build Process Automation is included with RISE with Â鶹ԭ´´ for S/4HANA Cloud, public edition at no additional cost. This offer is intended to help organizations jump-start their automation journey and drive meaningful collaboration between process experts and IT users. The starter pack includes:

• Two advanced users who can create workflows and build automations
• Twenty standard users who can initiate and participate in workflows created by the advanced user
• One unattended automation that can be triggered without human intervention

How Â鶹ԭ´´ S/4HANA Cloud Customers Benefit from Â鶹ԭ´´ Build Process Automation

Â鶹ԭ´´ Build Process Automation enables Â鶹ԭ´´ S/4HANA Cloud customers to reduce costs, eliminate manual errors, improve customer satisfaction, leverage KPI process dashboards to make important decisions, and optimize processes even when no APIs are available.

Jonathan Rhodes, vice president of Solution Management for Â鶹ԭ´´ Cloud ERP, shares more:

Q: How do you see automation impacting enterprise resource planning (ERP) customers?

A: Any time you can reduce manual intervention across the core business processes that sit in ERP you’re saving time and money. Increased efficiency at the core of your business: that’s the simple answer. But I think what’s most exciting about Â鶹ԭ´´ Build Process Automation is that it puts the power of automation in the hands of the business users themselves. They’re the ones who work with the processes day in and day out, and they’re the ones most likely to know where the automation potential lies. Empowering employees across every function of your business to make things run smoother is the compelling story behind Â鶹ԭ´´ Build Process Automation.

Q: Can you share a customer example?

A: One of our first customers to adopt process automation with Â鶹ԭ´´ S/4HANA Cloud is Rehau, a developer and manufacturer of innovative polymer-based solutions for automotive, construction, and other industries. Rehau wanted to simplify its supplier invoice processes and achieve greater process efficiency. With process automation, Rehau’s system:

• Automatically recognizes and extracts information from vendor invoices received via email
• Leverages machine learning to identify and predict supplier account details, such as company code, cost center, supplier, tax code, etc., based on the extracted information
• Uses RPA to automate the creation of supplier invoice documents in Â鶹ԭ´´ S/4HANA Cloud

By automating the upload and processing of thousands of finance and manufacturing documents per month in Â鶹ԭ´´ S/4HANA Cloud, process automation has enabled Rehau to reduce days of manual work to mere minutes.

Q: What about customers that are just beginning their move to cloud ERP?

A: The first step in a successful journey to cloud ERP is to take a hard look at business processes. Customers that have chosen S/4HANA Cloud, public edition — our ready-to-run cloud ERP that delivers the latest industry best practices and continuous innovation — have determined that having their ERP systems run standard business processes brings the most value to their business. The addition of Â鶹ԭ´´ Build Process Automation gives these customers the ability to take those standard business processes to the next level of automation.

To jump-start automation with Â鶹ԭ´´ Build Process Automation, customers have access to hundreds of free, pre-built automation features and tools designed specifically for Â鶹ԭ´´ S/4HANA Cloud. Our most common pre-built bot is one that automates the creation of sales orders from Excel. The bot scans the user’s inbox for sales order attachments and extracts the necessary data to create a sales order in Â鶹ԭ´´ S/4HANA Cloud. Once complete, the bot notifies the appropriate sales team.

The new starter pack is a great way to start your automation journey and improve the processes that are already running. Learn more through the following resources:

• Learn how to
• Watch a click-through demo of an
• Check out the

Angela Harvey is vice president of Marketing and Solution Management for Â鶹ԭ´´ Build Process Automation.