AI by industry · Logistics and distribution

The order arrives by email. And gets retyped.

Orders that arrive as PDFs, delivery notes typed twice and the customer asking where their shipment is. We come in through order intake and carry on through warehouse, routes and service.

Where it hurts

Rework at every step.

01

Double typing.

Every order, delivery note and invoice is entered twice. Errors discovered at delivery.

02

Stock that does not add up.

What the system says and what is in the warehouse differ. You sell what is not there.

03

Routes out of habit.

Manual planning that does not see traffic, delivery windows or real load.

Where we come in

Four ways in.

Order intake is the most common way in: return in weeks and without touching the ERP.

  1. 01

    Automatic order intake

    Reading PDF, email and EDI with validation against catalogue and customer. Exceptions go to a person, the rest goes through on its own.

    See service
  2. 02

    Warehouse visibility

    Locations, movements and real stock on one panel. Connected to the ERP, not replacing it.

    See service
  3. 03

    Route planning

    Optimisation with time windows, capacity and priorities. The planner adjusts, does not calculate.

    See service
  4. 04

    Service on the real status

    A portal or agent that answers where the shipment is with verified data, not with a promise.

    See service
What keeps running
How it applies here · No case of our own yet

What we bring from what is already running.

No published case of our own in logistics yet. The transfer here is direct from Buscafact, which is in production: reading unstructured documents (tender specifications dozens of pages long), extracting the data that matters, validating it against a profile and leaving the result ready for human review. An order in PDF is a simpler document than a procurement specification. The reading, validation and exception engine is the same.

Highest-impact use cases

  1. 01

    Email order to an ERP line

    PDF, Excel or the email body read and validated against catalogue, prices and customer. What is clear goes in on its own; what is doubtful gets flagged for a person.

    It is the way in with the fastest, most measurable return.

  2. 02

    Delivery note and invoice reconciled

    Automatic cross-check of order, delivery note and invoice. The discrepancy appears before payment, not in the audit.

    Avoids overpayment and stock mismatches.

  3. 03

    Stock and location panel

    What there is and where it is, connected to the ERP without replacing it. The end of "the system says there are three".

    Reduces selling product that does not exist.

  4. 04

    Self-service shipment status

    A portal or agent that answers with carrier and system data, citing the source. Fewer calls to customer service.

    Takes load off the phone without adding headcount.

See the products that are in production
Services involved

What it is built with.

Related reading

Before you call us, read this.

  1. Case · 8 min

    How to automate invoices and orders in a Spanish company

    Intake by email or PDF, data extraction, validation against the quote and stock, posting into the ERP and exceptions to a human. Which parts to genuinely automate and which to leave under review, with no black box.

  2. Concept · 8 min

    RPA vs AI agents: the differences and when to use each

    RPA follows the rules you gave it; an AI agent decides how to meet an objective within a bounded perimeter. They are not rivals: they are different layers. We explain when each is enough and how much they cost to maintain.

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