AutoRefactor for ERP Bots (AREB)
9/10
Demand Score
Automation failures halt order-to-cash and procure-to-pay flows, causing immediate downtime and manual rework costs.
8/10
Blue Ocean
Competition Level
$4k-15k
Price/Month
Predicted customer spend
12 days
Time to MVP
Difficulty: Hard
The Problem
Automation Adaptation
Competitor Landscape
- UiPath Test Suite/Automation Ops
- Automation Anywhere Bot Insight
- Worksoft Certify
- Tricentis Tosca
- Celonis (process mining)
Must-Have Features for MVP
Semantic locator library for SAP GUI/Fiori IDs and OData entities
Auto-refactor engine for RPA selectors and script steps
Transport-aware change impact analysis
Canary bot runs and rollback orchestration
CI/CD hooks for bots/tests (GitLab/GitHub/Azure DevOps)
Process contract schemas with versioning
Self-healing playbooks with human-in-the-loop approvals
Runtime health dashboards and MTTR KPIs
⚠️ Potential Challenges
- SAP licensing and technical access (RFC/OData/GUI)
- Complex selector strategies across legacy SAP GUI and Fiori
- Change management alignment with ITSM/transport cycles
- RPA vendor API variances
- False positives in change detection
Risk Level: Moderate
🎯 Keys to Success
- Reduce bot break/fix effort by >50% within 90 days
- Seamless plug-in to major RPA/test suites
- Low false positive rate on change detection
- Minimal SAP basis overhead
- Fast time-to-value via out-of-the-box SAP patterns
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