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Transforming Waste Services Through Digital Innovation

Over the past few months, we've been working closely with Waste Services to deliver a series of digital solutions that are making a big impact on the customer journey whilst improving efficiency across the service. Here's a look at our journey so far.

Automating Building Control Notifications with Blue Prism

Local authorities must manage numerous notifications and documents efficiently and accurately. One of the significant challenges we faced was handling building control competent person scheme notifications submitted as XML attachments via email. To streamline this process, we utilised Blue Prism, our in-house Robotic Process Automation (RPA) tool. Our solution parses these XML attachments and splits them into separate XML files for the three sovereign councils within our organisation, ensuring each notification is accurately distributed. 

4 stacks of paper notices, that are overlaid with a process of arrows indicating the notices being sorted