Bosch Power Tools – SAP Innovation Awards 2025

Winner in the Customer Experience category: Routing delays and high IT costs plagued Bosch Power Tools. Integrating GenAI and co-innovating with SAP streamlined routing, enhanced UI/UX, and reduced manual efforts, saving time and costs, while boosting accuracy and agility. - 5394 Télécharger le document

PUBLICEntry Pitch DeckBosch Power ToolsFlorian Haustein and Marcel LeCompteConsumer ProductsShaping Future: Bosch Power Tools optimizesover 1 Million Support Tickets annually with Joule AI
COMPANY NAME:HEADQUARTERS:INDUSTRY:WEBSITE:NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES:Company information2Robert Bosch Power Tools GmbHHQ Leinfelden-Echterdingen,Germany; 21 Manufacturing sitesConsumer Products5.3 b€ in Sales (2023)https://www.bosch-pt.com/ww/en/18,700Our Roots & MissionAs a division of the Bosch Group, we are a leading global supplier of power tools,garden tools, power tool accessories, and measuring technology. With renownedbrands such as Bosch and Dremel, we are committed to innovation, quality, andreliability, bringing technical progress and customer proximity to life.Our extensive product range equips both professional users and DIY enthusiastswith the tools they need to successfully complete their projectswhether onconstruction sites or in their own homes.By maintaining a long-standing, co-innovative partnership with SAP, wecontinuously enhance and streamline our business processes, ensuring operationalexcellence and a seamless customer experience.Bosch Power Tools BrandsPUBLIC
CHALLENGE: SOLUTION: OUTCOME:Service Ticket handling powered by AI Agents3E-mail tickets annuallyat Customer Service Centersto be classified by GenAI routingannually expected time saving per contactcenterMan-days in savingsof IT efforts each year>1.5MBosch Power Tools (PT)2,500h ~80Routing Conflicts and Delays. Our business team identifiedsignificant routing conflicts while managing over 1.5 millionannual email service tickets through SAP Service Cloud. Theseconflicts led to substantial delays in customer response times,impacting service efficiency.Challenges with Workflow Rules. The reliance on complex,static workflow rules posed significant challenges, resulting inhigh IT maintenance costs and prolonged change lead times.Additionally, system performance deteriorated. Up to 40% oftickets were misrouted, requiring manual intervention.UI/UX Enhancements. We aimed to enhance the overallexperience for our service contact center agents. By improvingusability and workflow design, we not only increased agentefficiency but also reduced workload strain, leading to a moreintuitive and productive working environment.Integration of GenAI in SAP Solutions. We have enhancedour SAP Sales and Service Cloud by integrating GenAIcapabilities through the innovative SAP CX AI Toolkit add-on,driving automation and efficiency.Co-Innovation Initiative. In co-innovation with SAP PreferredSuccess and Product teams, we developed a Joule agent toaddress ticket routing challenges. The result: Evolution of AICase Classification into a fully market-ready feature.Streamlined Ticket Routing. We replaced complex andconflicting static workflow rules with intuitive, natural languageprompts, enabling seamless and more accurate ticket routing.Empowering Call Center Agents. To enhance agentefficiency, we introduced an integrated solution combining anintelligent knowledge base with the digital Joule assistant,equipped with AI-driven shortcuts.Enhanced customer and end-user satisfaction through fasterresolutions, creating a more responsive service environment.Boosted classification accuracy by 35%, significantly reducingthe need for manual dispatch & optimizing workflow processes.Achieved remarkable annual savings in IT maintenance costsand saved thousands of hours in manual efforts at servicecenters.Streamlining system changes from weeks to minutes, nowoffered as a business user self-service, promoting agility.Perfect fit for our corporate business AI strategy, ensuringalignment with long-term organizational goals.Transformed CRM into a modern, scalable AI-drivenfoundation with promising potential for sales users, too.PUBLICUp to