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Real business case study
Industry: Logistics
Business: Freight Forwarding, Haulage and Customs
What we do for this client
Customised AI OCR for shipping and customs documents
Integration that opens jobs in their existing logistics system
Supplier invoice export in SQL Accounting's import format
AI OCR / Vision
System Integration
SQL Accounting Import
Container Number Check
Source
Bill of Lading BL
MEDUY8056549
1 X 20DV · FCL
PORT KLANG
Trade form FORM E
E266657003270044
ACFTA · CHINA
HS 3206.11
Invoice INV
XSTY26050317-2
USD 59,640.00
CIF
Multiple documents per job
Invoice, packing list, BL, Form E / B / C3 and CIPL. All of it has to be read before the job can open.
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Manual typing every field, every document
Job opening
Keyed into the logistics system
Shipper, consignee, vessel, ports, containers and cargo are typed in from each document. The job cannot open until it is done.
Retyped to Excel one charge line at a time
Supplier invoices
INV
THC-001 DOC-001 EDI-001
Into a fixed Excel format
Every supplier invoice is copied into a predefined Excel template, line by line, before it can be imported into SQL Accounting.
Easy to mistype 11 characters each
Container numbers
MSBU 354489 1
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Picked out by eye
Container numbers are found and copied from each document by eye. One wrong letter breaks tracking, billing and reports.
After
Documents in, the job opens itselfDocuments in, the job opens itself
Same job, now takes
10–20 sec per document
Source
Bill of Lading BL
MEDUY8056549
1 X 20DV · FCL
PORT KLANG
Trade form FORM E
E266657003270044
ACFTA · CHINA
HS 3206.11
Invoice INV
XSTY26050317-2
USD 59,640.00
CIF
Multiple documents per job
Nothing changes for the team. The same PDFs and scans come in from shippers and carriers.
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10–20 seconds per document
AI OCR + staff review
→
20 FIELDS
FILLED
Every field read for you
AI reads all 5 document types and fills in each field it finds, containers included. Staff only check and confirm.
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Job opened no retyping
System integration
Pushed into their system
Our integration pushes the checked data into the logistics system they already use. The job opens, and its Job No is pulled back.
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SQL import ready no line-by-line retyping
SQL Accounting import
Invoices ready for SQL
Each charge line gets its Charge Code from SQL Accounting. Staff export the file in SQL's import format and import it to create the invoices.
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Faster job opening
30–45 min → about 5 min per job
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Less supplier invoice retyping
10–15 min → 1–2 min per invoice
Jobs open in their logistics system once staff check the data. Supplier invoices export ready to import into SQL.