Document automation
8 posts on document automation.
What AP automation costs, and how vendors charge
AP automation is sold four different ways, and the pricing model matters more than the headline rate. Here is what drives each one, and which fits your invoice volume.
PlaybookAutomation use cases for freight forwarders
Eight back-office jobs a forwarder can automate now, what each one replaces, and roughly what it takes. Ranked by payback, with the ones that are not worth it named too.
GuideHow to choose an automation vendor
Most automation projects fail on scoping and ownership, not technology. Here are the eight questions that separate a vendor who has shipped one from a vendor who has demoed one.
AnalysisWhere accessorial fees hide on a freight invoice
Accessorials are the charges for everything that is not moving the freight, and where billing errors concentrate. Here are the ones that hide best, and how to dispute them.
GuideHow to check a freight invoice before you pay it
A freight invoice audit is four checks: rate, weight, accessorials, duplicates. Here's the order to run them in, and why your own error rate beats the ones everyone quotes.
GuideHow to automate air waybill data entry
Freight forwarders lose 25–40 minutes keying each air waybill. Here's how to automate AWB data entry with OCR and validation, and where the hours come back.
GuideHow to extract data from PDF invoices automatically
How to pull clean data from PDF invoices automatically: how extraction works, why scanned and multi-vendor invoices break simple tools, and how to reach numbers you can trust.
Field notesWhat 97% reconciliation accuracy really takes
Most document-automation demos quietly skip the accuracy problem. Here's the rule-based engine behind a 97%-accurate air-cargo reconciliation, and why good-enough OCR isn't.