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Precisely Customers Home Depot, Sobeys, and Novelis Share Their Best Practices at the Automate User Group

Authors Photo Rachel Galvez | May 15, 2024

Precisely kicked off the second in a series of quarterly Automate User Group events in Atlanta back in March. These user groups – also known as Inspiration Days – allow attendees to gain knowledge and share real-world results and insights with their peers.

The interactive event brought Precisely Automate customers together for two jam-packed days of knowledge sharing and learning through presentations, demos from Precisely engineers, and Q&A discussions.

Among the attendees were customers from Home Depot, Sobeys, and Novelis – who shared insights into their experiences leveraging Precisely Automate in their organizations.

Real-world results of using Precisely Automate. Sobey's: 3 million items process each month for $1.7 million annualized labor savings. 600 reconciliation approvals managed each month. The Home Depot: Processed over 1.6 million transactions in P2P space last year. Over 1.2 million in fixed asset transactions. 171 scripts. Novelis: 2 days saved at month-end close

Check out the recap below to get inspired for your own automation journey.

James Donegan, Senior Manager, and Bryant Garrett, Senior RPA Developer, Change Excellence (CHEX) team at Home Depot, share the importance of Precisely Automate in Home Depot’s journey to streamlining SAP processing and transforming their peer-to-peer (P2P) operations.

Ryan Blanchett, Director of Continuous Improvement and Ancillary Services at Sobeys, explains how the company now processes over 3 million line items each month – saving roughly $1.7 million in annualized labor – after overcoming its master data and financial data challenges with Automate Studio and Automate Evolve.

Allen Li, Finance and Accounting Transformation Manager at Novelis, shares how the organization reduced errors and saved hours of manual labor spent importing PDFs into SAP. The user-friendly template and interface of Automate Studio also enabled easy adoption within business teams, saving them up to two business days at month-end close.