JFE Shoji Group company JFE Shoji Business Support held internal presentations on October 13 about operational improvement activities. About sixty participants watched presentations by the No. 1 Administrative Support Office and the Accounting Support Office . About sixty participants watched presentations by the No. 1 Administrative Support Office and the Accounting Support Office .

The theme of the No. 1 Administrative Support Office's presentation was "Automating Inventory Sales Records with RPA *." They showcased how they used RPA to automate the manual process, which had originally been done with paper forms. As a result, they drastically reduced the time spent on a task that used to take ten hours a month. As a result, they drastically reduced the time spent on a task that used to take ten hours a month.

The Accounting Support Office's presentation focused on reducing the distribution of documents, as well as two tasks related to payment The tasks were selected from approximately thirty issues the Accounting Support Office team had identified. The tasks were selected from approximately thirty issues the Accounting Support Office team had identified.

By digitizing documents and sharing them via a server, they were able to eliminate physically distributing them. In addition, the office used Excel's macro function to automate the generation of emails, increasing efficiency. This operational improvement activity also had the benefit of reducing how often the team needs to send emails.

In reviewing the presentations, management expressed their expectations for the future, saying: "Obtaining data and automating it with Digitalization can also make things easier to use, so we can take it to the next step of development. Digitalization can also make things easier to use, so we can take it to the next step of development."

*RPA or robotic process automation is a software technology for automating administrative tasks that are performed on computers.