DocuSign Japan Co., Ltd. and SAP Japan Co., Ltd. announced that Waseda University has decided to adopt the electronic application / contract solution "SAP® Signature Management by DocuSign" and has started full-scale introduction.

 Waseda University inherits the medium- to long-term plan "Waseda Vision 150" formulated in 2023 with the image of what it should be in 2012, which is the 150th anniversary of its founding, and has a new slogan, "WASEDA that shines in the world." We are making drastic improvements to our constitution toward the realization of this.As part of this, we are promoting paperless operations, which is one of the measures for improving work efficiency and reforming work styles.

 At Waseda University, it takes a lot of man-hours to create and deliver employment condition notices (about 15,000 cases a year) at the time of contract with teaching assistants, student staff, temporary staff, etc., and improving work efficiency is an issue. It was.Therefore, with the aim of improving business efficiency, we introduced SAP Signature Management by DocuSign and realized the digitization of processing business processes.In addition, it is planned to further promote the utilization of solutions for the purpose of contributing to work style reform and work efficiency improvement promoted throughout the university in cooperation with existing RPA tools.

 DocuSign and SAP Japan will introduce this solution to Waseda University as a pilot from January 2021 and determine the operation, and will deploy it to Waseda University as a whole from July 1.

reference:[DocuSign Japan Co., Ltd.] Waseda University promotes computerization of contract work-decided to adopt DocuSign's electronic signature, to full-scale introduction

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