What changes when the busywork runs itself.

Three workflows from one ongoing engagement with a consumer brand selling into club, department store, off-price, and DTC. The client's name is withheld under confidentiality.

$50Kin 3PL overcharges found
28 hrsof manual work back every month
<1%of revenue lost to stockouts, down from 3%

FFreight and logistics: 3PL invoice audit

$50K in 3PL overcharges found, and four to five hours saved on every invoice.

$50Kin overcharges found
4–5 hrssaved on every invoice
20+ hrsback each month

The challenge

The 3PL sent about five invoices a month, each a long list of storage, handling, and freight charges. Checking every line against the contract, then getting the team together to review the findings and decide what to pay, took four to five hours per invoice. Billing errors still slipped through.

The solution

An automated audit that reads each invoice, checks every charge against the contracted rate card and the actual shipment activity, and flags anything that doesn't match. The findings come back as one review-ready summary, so the team can decide what to pay and what to dispute in a single sitting.

See how the 3PL invoice audit works

AAI agents: accounts payable

An AP agent that handles 100 invoices a month with an error rate under 1%.

100invoices a month
5 minsaved on every invoice
<1%error rate
8 hrsback each month

The challenge

Around 100 vendor invoices a month landed in a shared AP inbox as emails and PDFs. Each one had to be opened, keyed in, coded, and routed for approval by hand.

The solution

An AI agent that reads the AP inbox, pulls the details from each invoice, codes it, and queues it in the payables system for approval. People make the approval calls. The agent does the typing.

RRetail operations and planning: inventory

Revenue lost to stockouts cut from 3% to under 1%.

3%of revenue lost to stockouts before
<1%of revenue lost to stockouts after

The challenge

Inventory counts were sent to retail partners by hand, and the forecast lived in spreadsheets. When the numbers drifted, retailers showed items as in stock that weren't, and orders were lost.

The solution

Automated inventory feeds that keep retail partners in sync with what's actually on hand, plus a demand planning workflow that forecasts by item and channel and flags reorders before stock runs out.

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