How can a distributor or manufacturer use AI to turn customer purchase orders that arrive by email or PDF into sales orders faster and with fewer mistakes?

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title: "How to process purchase orders with AI"
description: "AI reads each incoming purchase order, whether it is an email, a PDF or a scanned form, and extracts the customer, ship-to address, items, quantities, prices and requested dates. It matches customer item codes to your own part numbers, checks prices against the agreed price list and flags anything that does not match, such as an unknown item, a changed price or a quantity outside the usual range. Orders that pass every check are drafted as sales orders for a person to confirm, flagged orders go to customer service with the reason, and the original document stays linked to the order."
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# How can a distributor or manufacturer use AI to turn customer purchase orders that arrive by email or PDF into sales orders faster and with fewer mistakes?

AI reads each incoming purchase order, whether it is an email, a PDF or a scanned form, and extracts the customer, ship-to address, items, quantities, prices and requested dates. It matches customer item codes to your own part numbers, checks prices against the agreed price list and flags anything that does not match, such as an unknown item, a changed price or a quantity outside the usual range. Orders that pass every check are drafted as sales orders for a person to confirm, flagged orders go to customer service with the reason, and the original document stays linked to the order.

## What this means in practice

- Extract customer, items, quantities, prices and dates from every order.
- Match customer item codes to your own part numbers.
- Check prices and quantities against agreed terms.
- Send flagged orders to customer service with the reason.
- Have a person confirm each sales order and keep the original linked.

## How Lid Vizion approaches it

We start with the business decision and operating context, define ownership and measurable milestones, then use configuration, integrations, automation, or custom software only where each earns its place.

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