RPA-ENABLED ACCREDITATION AND VERIFICATION FOR A LEADING GLOBAL PROVIDER OF QUALITY MARITIME CREW AND CREWING SERVICES

Client Country: Philippines

Project Duration: 2019 - present

Project Description:

The client for this project is a company that provides quality crew and crewing services to the world’s maritime and cruise industries. As a maritime manpower agency, the company handles tons of application documents subject to accreditation and document validity verification.

With this, BlastAsia worked with the client in speeding this used-to-be human-extensive process of verifying documents and accrediting applicants without compromising data accuracy using RPA that makes the following activities possible:

• A. Access automation of client’s existing systems
  ○ RPA uploads tons of documents to a server  from validated screenshots
  ○ RPA verifies consistency of document data

• B. File watcher activities
  ○ Enables the client’s applicants to submit his documents through a mobile application
  ○ Documents are read by OCR which extracts required data to be sent to an FTP server
  ○ RPA listens to FTP server files containing the required data sent by the OCR
  ○ RPA checks, monitors and reads files dumped inside FTP server

• C. Access Automation of websites / web extraction
  ○ RPA gets the data from the FTP server files
  ○ RPA validates documents in several websites using parameter data from the FTP server
  ○ RPA checks for the authentication and validity period from the websites
  ○ RPA sends the validated document results back to the client's applicant in as fast as 2-3 minutes