Sanpo-yoshi Communication
Sanpo-yoshi Communication
President's Column] RPA is indispensable for business improvement, and is also powerful in sales.
The year has finally come to an end. It has been a year of firsts for all of us. There was a time when I was tormented by anxiety, but thanks to your support, we are going to make it through the year. I would like to thank you from the bottom of my heart for your patronage over the past year.
As I have written before, I have been working on RPA for about two and a half years. RPA stands for "Robotic Process Automation," and simply put, it is a system for automating routine tasks performed on a computer.
The department now has 1.5 members, one full-time and one semi-full-time, and has become indispensable for improving internal operations. We are now hearing "Can't we use RPA for this? We are beginning to feel a positive response.
The other day, members of the Recruitment Support Project were discussing the possibility of creating a new sales list for Indeed, our agency. It was decided that it would be better to sell to companies listed on Riku Navi and Town Work. Someone suggested compiling the list in Excel, but no one was willing to stand for the task in the midst of a busy schedule.
This is where RPA comes in. We opened the pages of companies recruiting in the food field, such as RikuNavi, and automatically copied and pasted the company name, address, telephone number, and website address into Excel. In no time at all, an Excel version of the sales list was completed. It can be said that one of RPA's strong points is to automatically obtain information from static pages (pages that have certain rules and do not change much) like this.
We also sell a certain product (purchased product) on the Internet, but when it suddenly stopped selling, we checked the competition and found that they were selling it at a slightly lower price than ours, so we had no choice but to lower our price as well, and once it sold again,
After a while, they stopped selling, and when we looked into it, we found that they too had lowered their prices, so we repeated the weasel words. So, we decided to have RPA browse the competitor's site once a day, acquire price information, and report it to us via e-mail. Then we can instantly see what the competition is doing. We didn't program it any further this time, but if we wanted to, we could have obtained the competitor's price and then lowered the price slightly from our own online store's management screen.
When we think of RPA, we tend to think of automation of routine office work, but we have come to realize that it can also be used on the sales side. We are planning to hold an open house on the Web in January next year. We are also planning to hold a seminar on RPA based on a case study at Marushin.
I know it is a little early, but please take good care of yourselves and have a happy New Year.