AI for Manufacturing & Logistics
AI for Manufacturing & Logistics gives a typical office and planning team about 20 hours a week back: customer orders get read from email into your system, supplier dates get chased and checked against the plan, and every shipment is tracked across carriers, so you catch a problem before the customer rings about it.
Free · 30 minutes · Yours to keep
Purchase order entry from email and PDF
Orders in by mid-afternoon go out the same day.
Sound familiar?
It's all up onthe office wall.
The same four headaches, pinned up every week and never quite sorted.
Supplier dates change in someone's inbox
A supplier emails the buyer to say the steel is two weeks late. The production plan still shows the old date, and nobody finds out until the job can't start.
Orders arrive in every format
Customer POs come as PDFs, emails and spreadsheet attachments. Someone keys each one in and checks it against the drawing revision and price.
Shipments spread across carriers
UPS for parcels, a haulier for pallets, DHL for export. Checking where everything is means logging into three sites, and problems get missed.
Paperwork that ships with the product
Certificates of conformance, material certs, inspection records. They're put together by hand for every shipment, and one missing cert can hold up payment for weeks.
The automations
10 automations we buildfor Manufacturing & Logistics.
Click any one to read exactly how it works: the steps, the software it runs in, and where you sign off. There's enough on each page to build it yourself, or we build it with you.
And 7 more, biggest saving first
- Supplier delay chasing4.5 hrs a week
- Shift output and yield reports4 hrs a week
- Quality and compliance paperwork3.5 hrs a week
- Supplier invoice matching3 hrs a week
- Non-conformance tracking3 hrs a week
- Job costing3 hrs a week
- Daily production schedule notes2.5 hrs a week
Hours back are typical, not promised. Yours get worked out on the call.
What it's worth
$54,050
a year back in the business, typically
23.5 hours a weekoff your desk.
In a typical week these jobs take 30 hours. Your elves take 23.5 of them. Here's the sum, shown in full, at a modest $50 an hour.
- Entering customer orders8$18,400
- Chasing suppliers for dates4.5$10,350
- Tracking shipments and updating customers5$11,500
- Quality and compliance paperwork3.5$8,050
- Writing up the daily schedule notes2.5$5,750
23.5 hours back a week × 46 working weeks × $50 an hour
- Same day
- a supplier slip reaches the planner
- 1 list
- of stuck shipments across every carrier
Typical figures, not a promise. Your free live build gives you your own.
You sign off
Supervised first.Hands-off only where you say.
Your elves draft, sort, chase and remind. Anything that can't be undone, or that speaks for the business, waits for your OK.
- 01
The first few weeks
Supervised
Every draft waits for your OK before it goes anywhere.
- 02
Once you trust it
Routine ones go out
Only the kinds you pick go out on their own. The rest still wait.
- 03
From then on
Check-ups
We look after your elves and adjust them as the business changes.
At every stage
It won't be perfect. That's why a person sees anything that matters.
Purchase order entry from email and PDF
A person checks and releases every order.
Customer order intake
A person releases every order.
Your software
Keep the software you pay for.Your elves work inside it.
Every job on this page runs inside software you already use. Your team keeps working the way it does now.
The number on each is how many of the 10 jobs on this page run in it.
Using something else? We build into that instead. See all the software we work with.
Your business
- 9Outlook
- 3Gmail
- 4NetSuite
- 9Google Sheets
- 1UPS
- 1FedEx
- 1DHL
- 1ShipStation
How it starts
See it working before you pay a cent.
It starts with a free 30-minute call. We build one real thing with you, on your own work, so you see exactly what this does. If there's more worth doing, you get a plan and a price in writing.
01 · 30 minutes
Free live build
Bring one job, say customer order intake. We build it with you on the call. It's yours, whatever you decide.
02 · In writing
Your plan
What we'd build next, the hours it should save each week and the price, in writing.
03 · Built for you
We build it
Around how your business already works, inside your software. You sign off before anything goes live.
04 · Your call
Hand over or keep improving
Take it over with video guides for everything, or keep us on monthly to improve it and build what's next.
- What does it cost and how long does it take?
- Most manufacturing and logistics builds take one to two weeks, then run supervised before we hand them over. The price is set out in a written proposal within 48 hours of the free live build.
Free, 30 minutes, and what we build is yours.
Already know what you need? Ask about a one-off build or a retainer.
Related pages
The rest of the businessgets its hours back too.
Each page is one part of the business, with the jobs we build for it.
FAQ
What owners ask us first.
Something we haven't covered? Ask it on the call.
Does any of this touch our machines or the shop floor?
No. Manufacturing automations work with orders, emails, schedules and paperwork only. Machines, quality release and safety decisions stay exactly where they are, with the people responsible for them.
We run an older ERP. Can you work with it?
Often, yes, and we check on the free live build before we quote. NetSuite, Sage and QuickBooks connect directly, and older ERPs can often take an import file or give a scheduled export. If there's no way in, we'll say so.
What happens when two records disagree?
A named person decides. When two records disagree, both values are shown side by side with where each came from, and nothing is updated until that person picks the right one.
Will it promise customers new delivery dates?
No. Customer delivery updates are only drafted. Whoever owns production or dispatch confirms the new date before anything goes to a customer.
Is our customer and pricing data safe?
Yes. Customer and pricing data stays in accounts you own, with access limited to what each part of the build needs. The handover pack lists every permission and how to switch it off.
What does it cost and how long does it take?
Most manufacturing and logistics builds take one to two weeks, then run supervised before we hand them over. The price is set out in a written proposal within 48 hours of the free live build.
Next step
Take one job off your desk this week.
Every week you wait is another week of the same jobs done by hand. Book a free 30-minute live build and leave with your first elf working.