Understand and improve your processes with process advisor in Power Automate

Understand and improve your processes with process advisor in Power Automate Let's say a financial operations manager for a large enterprise wants to understand where inefficiencies are in the end-to-end procure-to-pay process that she's responsible for. Can Microsoft Power Automate help do that? Indeed it can! Using Power Automates process mining capabilities, she can easily see how automating the process has impacted the reviewing efficiency..

Start by opening process advisor and selecting the data option. Then, click create to start analyzing the process by region. Next, from the list of data sources supported by Power Platform select Excel workbook. Then, upload file. Then, select our Excel workbook and confirm our connection details. Once the Excel workbook is loaded, we can preview the data to make sure it's correct and nothing's missing..

Now, leveraging Power Query, we can either transform the data or simply map it to the process mining required fields. We can also select additional attributes that can be used as custom filters in the analytics to dive deeper into the P2P process, by region for example. With our data loaded and mapped, we can easily see.

The invoice review step for our entire operation as red. Meaning, it's running slower overall. But looking just at North America, which is not red, we see that region's 13 days faster than average. Since North America isn't the issue, let's click on filters for EMEA which reveals EMEA is 20 days slower than average. And there's the problem. Now we know deploying the new tooling to other regions, starting with EMEA, could save 13 to 20 days a month on this one step of the whole process..

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