Turning emailed purchase orders into validated ERP entries
An industrial parts distributor’s order desk, receiving purchase orders from many customers as PDFs, spreadsheets and plain email text.
- Challenge
- Every order is keyed into the ERP by hand. Layouts differ from customer to customer, many orders use the customer’s own part codes, and mistakes surface only when the wrong item ships.
- Approach
- 1Map how orders arrive, which fields matter and which mistakes cost the most
- 2Extract order lines and match customer part codes to the catalog, learning from each reviewer correction
- 3Check prices, quantities and ship-to details against the ERP before an order is created
- 4Send low-confidence lines, and orders that break a customer’s usual pattern, to a review queue with the source highlighted
- 5Score each release against a labeled set of past orders, and track accuracy and cost per order in production
- Outcome
- The desk reviews exceptions instead of typing every line, each ERP order links back to its source document, and accuracy is tracked on live orders against the labeled baseline.
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