Hive AI
Inbound Load Agent
Inbounds Loads enable the logistical receipt of different purchase orders in one load. Creating these Loads manually is a tedious process, and the automatic creation via EDI requires extensive vendor collaboration and complex integrations. What if an Agent could automatically create these Loads based on packing slips from your vendors?Business challenge:
Companies can receive loads from vendors consisting of (parts of) multiple purchase orders. The manual creation of Inbound Loads is time and labor-consuming and prone to errors. The automatic creation of Inbound Loads via ASN is not always viable due to vendor dependency and complexity of EDI/API integration.
Core Features:
The Inbound Load Agent converts packing slips received by email into Inbound Loads in F&O:
- Packing slip analysis - The Agent scans your inbox and analyses emails from vendors containing packing slips (PDF). It recognizes the communicated purchase orders, item numbers and shipped quantities.
- Automatic load creation – Based on the identified values from the packing slip, the Agent automatically creates a Load in the Inbound Load planning workbench.
Key benefits
- Reduced labour time/costs associated with manual load creation (which can take up to 1 hour per load)
- Faster processing of inbound shipments as load lines contain less errors
- Shorter inbound processing lead time means inventory becomes available sooner for picking and shipping (vital for cross-docking)
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