Read this article about Cognizant, Best Achievement in Technology Enabled Process Automation (Robotic Process Automation, Machine Learning, Cognitive Learning, Blockchain etc), selected by the independent judging panel, for the 2020 Business Transformation & Operational Excellence Industry Awards program.
Our Client is a Global Biopharmaceutical company with focus and capabilities to address some of the world’s greatest health challenges. As a part of its Global Pharmacovigilance program, client team is responsible to monitor the safety of its products used in everyday practice or clinical studies by collecting, assessing and processing adverse event reports for its products.
Cognizant is one of the preferred vendors. The client was looking forward to start their automation journey and was looking for Pilot use cases. Cognizant conducted a detailed automation assessment and proposed a roadmap for automation to the client.
Based on one of the key pain areas we proposed the Duplicate Case & Case Initiation for picking up as a pilot automation project to initiate their journey in the automation space.
Thus RPA based automation was deployed within a period of 6 months – Oct 2018 to Mar 2019, this project followed the complete automation development lifecycle collaboratively with the clients. Cognizant helped the client team with event detection, assessment, and reporting the adverse event to the regulatory bodies.
Need for Automation
- There are multiple sources of receiving adverse event information, which could result in case duplication or the case could be follow-up of related incident already reported in the past.
- As part of case initiation, Cognizant operation team needs to check for duplicate cases, case level seriousness & transmit the case to AEGIS for processing.
- This step is extremely critical to ensure that only Valid Cases entre the AEGIS database as it directly impact
- Over- reporting or under reporting of cases
- Finally impacting patient safety
- Process challenges :
- The process involves repetitive rule based task which is manual intensive and completely non-judgmental
- Manual intervention also causes human errors and accuracy issues
- Missed duplicate checks during manual process
- High volume of ~28000 cases per month
- This entire assessment takes ~8 mins/case. The team receives ~28000 online/Flexi XML cases / month for processing.
- The client want to start their automation journey and Duplicate check & Case initiation automation was an easy start with high ROI.
Solutions Implemented:
We conducted an end-to-end automation of the process in scope along with the IT / RPA team.
- Robotic process automation tool Blue Prism, which is the client-preferred tool and for which they hold IP leveraged to solution the process.
- Complex codes broken into simpler modules and later integrated to create the end-to-end solution.
- Work input from the backend reports provided per hour by the MIS team
- BOT extracts data from AgExchange performs validity assessment, duplicate search, seriousness assessment & minimal data entry.
- Generates hourly and EOD reports for case distribution and effective reconciliation of cases and ensures compliance of every case and thereby of the process.
1 master & 12 slave BOTs hosted in AbbVie environment to handle the volumes.
- ~70% cases/ day handled by bots
- Reduced error from 99.3 to 99.8 due to missed & incorrect duplicate check and minimal data entry Post Automation
- Reduced TAT/ case helps improve regulatory timelines
- 19 FTE’s effort saved and realized
Business Transformation & Operational Excellence Industry Awards 2020
About the Awards
The Business Transformation & Operational Excellence Awards have been established to showcase globally the most outstanding organizational achievements through the application of Operational Excellence programs. Click here to view the Press Release.
The winners will be announced at the Awards Ceremony at The Business Transformation & Operational Excellence World Awards (BTOES) on Wednesday, March 25th, 2020, from 6.30pm in the Venetian Ballroom at the Loews Portofino Bay Hotel at Universal Orlando Resort.
The Business Transformation & Operational Excellence Awards are open to all organizations, both private and public sector, across the globe, which have implemented Operational Excellence programs to deliver outstanding business results.
The Awards will be held in conjunction with the Business Transformation & Operational Excellence World Summit, BTOES 2020 in the beautiful Venetian Ballroom on March 25, 2020 at the Loews Portofino Bay Hotel at Universal Orlando™️. Click to access the agenda, view the current speakers, and watch the highlights video from last year.
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The issues in this article are just one of topic areas that are going to be discussed at the Business Transformation & Operational Excellence World Summit & Industry
BTOES is the industry’s biggest and best, senior-level, cross-industry gathering of Business Transformation & Operational Excellence industry leaders and senior executives.
It also hosts the Business Transformation & Operational Excellence Awards, which showcase globally the most outstanding organizational achievements through the application of Operational Excellence programs.
The summits hosts a number of private forums for C-Level & Global corporate-level leaders as well as business unit heads.
With over 150 speakers, over 100 sessions, 12 Keynotes, 9 Track Themes, 5 parallel tracks, 60+ track sessions, 50 roundtable discussions, 20 Interactive Workshops, 6 Thought Leader Panels, 5 Leaders Boardrooms, 5 co-located events, the Industry Awards Program, Site Visits, 20+ hours of social networking including 2 gala cocktail parties, dinners, numerous group activities, this is the ultimate event to benchmark, network and drive Operational Excellence to the next level.
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There is a strong focus on Cultural Transformation, Customer Delight, Sustaining an Operational Excellence program, Need for end-to-end Business Transformation, Keeping up with new technologies/impact of digitalization and Leadership Buy-in & Understanding. We dedicated two tracks to advanced technologies, such as AI, Machine Learning, RPA, Predictive Analytics, Blockchain, Cloud infrastructure etc.
The agenda is designed to encourage active meaningful conversations though all day enhanced networking and interaction opportunities, including
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All-day Refreshment & Themed Breaks
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1¼ Hour Hot Breakfast Networking Sessions
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1½ Hour Hot Plated Networking Lunches with Topic & Industry Sector focussed tables
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1½ Hour Roundtable Sessions by Topic & Industry Sector.
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Keynote & Themes Panel Sessions
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Hosted Welcome Receptions from 5.30pm
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Expanded more lavish Awards Program
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Newly launched Night Summit for attendees to meet after dinner
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