Industry · Manufacturers & Distributors
AI for manufacturers and distributors: orders in, without the retyping
Orders arrive by email, PDF and retailer portal, and someone on your team types every one into the ERP. We build the system that reads them, checks them against your items and prices, and posts them once a person approves, in the ERP you already run.
Build fee
One-time · from $7,500
Ongoing
$30–$150/mo (AI direct)
Live in
30 days
Ownership
Yours, forever

The friction
Where manufacturers & distributors teams lose their week
Every order is typed in twice
01The customer sends a purchase order as a PDF or an email. Customer service reads it and keys it into the ERP line by line. On a busy day the order desk is the bottleneck for the whole building.
Big-retailer paperwork never ends
02Each retailer has its own portal, labels, acknowledgements and routing rules. Miss one and a deduction shows up on the remittance weeks later, with nobody sure what it was for.
Supplier invoices pile up on the controller
03Invoices are matched to purchase orders and receipts by hand, coded, and entered. Month-end waits on the stack.
Nobody can get an answer out of the ERP
04The data is all in there. Getting a simple answer, what is open, what is late, what is short, means asking the one person who knows how to run the report.
From $7,500
ONE-TIME BUILD FEE
30 days
DISCOVERY TO LIVE
Day 1
YOU OWN THE SYSTEM
Use cases
What we automate for manufacturers & distributors
Order desk
01Emailed and PDF purchase orders are read, matched to your customers, items and prices, and queued as draft sales orders. Anything that does not match is flagged for a person before it posts.
Retailer acknowledgements and deductions
02Order acknowledgements and ship notices prepared from the ERP record, and deductions pulled from remittances and matched to the order they belong to, so each one can be disputed or accepted.
Supplier invoice entry
03Invoices read, matched to the purchase order and receipt, coded, and queued for approval. Exceptions go to the controller with the documents side by side.
Quotes and requests for quote
04Incoming requests logged and drafted from your price lists and past quotes, ready for a salesperson to check and send.
Open-order and inventory reporting
05A daily report of open orders, late shipments and low stock, built from the ERP and sent to the people who act on it.
Ask your ERP a question
06A read-only assistant your staff can ask in plain English, connected to the ERP with each person's own permissions and a log of every question.
Where firms like yours start
Fixed-price work, with the price on the page
Five phases. Thirty days to live.
Our process →01
Discover
Ops audit, process maps, ROI ranking.
02
Design
Architecture and tool picks — approved first.
03
Build
Constructed and tested against every edge case.
04
Launch
Deployment, training, real adoption.
05
Optimize
Monitoring, monthly reports, new wins.
Questions
Manufacturers & Distributors automation — FAQ
Does this work with our ERP?
It depends on what your ERP lets outside software read and write. We check that in the free audit, on your own system, before quoting. If it cannot be done properly we tell you then.
Is this EDI?
No. If a retailer requires EDI you still need an EDI provider. This handles what sits around it: the orders that arrive by email and PDF, the paperwork, and the deductions.
Does it post orders on its own?
Only if you tell us it may. By default every order waits as a draft for a person to approve, and anything that does not match your items or prices is flagged.
What does it cost?
The audit is free. A build such as an order desk starts at a one-time $7,500, fixed in writing before work starts. You own it, and it runs in your accounts.
Our ERP partner says this cannot be done. Who is right?
Sometimes they are. We ask your partner what the system allows, work within it, and bring them in early. Where a change needs them, we say so in the plan.
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Where we go from here
Ready to automate your manufacturers & distributors business?
Thirty minutes, no pitch deck. We map your operations, find the friction, and show you where automation actually earns its keep. If there's no fit, we'll say so.
No subscription.
No lock-in.
No surprise invoices.
Or start smaller — the $500 pilot · see pricing