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AI in Logistics & Supply Chain

Margins are thin. Surprises are expensive.

The variables that wreck logistics plans have always existed. Now there's a way to see them earlier.

Logistics runs on tight margins and tighter promises. One disruption - a port delay, a demand spike, a customs hold - and the cost hits fast. The companies winning on supply chain aren't moving faster for the sake of it. They're seeing further ahead: demand shifts before they become stockouts, capacity constraints before they become missed SLAs, risks before they become incidents.

Industry challenges

Plans that are wrong before the truck leaves

Your route planners make good decisions with the information they have. But traffic, weather, load changes, and delivery window conflicts don't wait for the morning briefing. By the time a problem is visible, it's already a cost.

Demand forecasts built on last year's assumptions

Traditional forecasting models the past. Your customers' behaviour is changing faster than your forecast cycle can track. The result: too much stock in the wrong place, not enough where it matters.

Cross-border paperwork that holds cargo hostage

Customs documentation is manual, error-prone, and opaque. A missing field or misclassified tariff code means your shipment sits while your customer's line stops.

AI use cases

Email-to-order extraction at 1,000+ emails per day

Your operations team processes hundreds or thousands of inbound emails daily - orders, booking confirmations, status enquiries. AI reads, classifies, and extracts structured data automatically. We've built systems that process 1,000 emails per day, extracting 400-450 orders without human intervention. Across our clients, 50-70% of inbound emails are auto-classified and routed without anyone touching them.

Customs declaration automation at scale

Data extraction that consumes 60-80% of declaration processing time, automated with 99% accuracy targeting on standard cases. For brokers processing 500,000+ declarations per year, even a 10-minute saving per declaration adds up to millions in value. We focus on standard cases first (covering 60-70% of volume), then extend to edge cases - not the other way around.

Document processing that turns paperwork into data

Invoices, bills of lading, customs forms, product specifications - AI reads, parses, and structures this data in seconds. 90-97% time reduction per document. One client processes 49 invoices fully automated in 3.5 hours. Another extracts product specifications in 30 seconds that previously took 15 minutes each.

Demand signals that get ahead of your forecast

Models that read external signals - weather, events, economic indicators, customer ordering patterns - and surface demand shifts before they show up in your ERP. Inventory positioned for what's coming, not what already happened.

Show us where surprises are hitting your margin hardest.

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