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Supplier confirmations make a good first choice: frequent, bounded and easy to measure.
02 Where it works · Supply chain intelligence
AI for supply chain teams: see the exceptions first.
veridive brings order, inventory and supplier signals together so planners can focus on the exceptions that need judgment.
Illustrative application. Your workflow, data and goals shape the solution.
02Supply chain intelligence
What is supply chain intelligence?
Supply chain intelligence means using AI to bring order, inventory and supplier signals into one view, so planners spend their time on exceptions instead of data entry. veridive builds systems that extract supplier confirmations, detect mismatches and delay risks, and suggest actions, while planners approve replenishment and every external commitment.
How does planning work run today?
In a typical manufacturer or distributor, supplier confirmations arrive by email and PDF, each in its own format, and planners re-type dates and quantities into the plan. Stock records, open orders and shipping updates live in different systems and spreadsheets. By the time a delay becomes visible, there are fewer options to fix it, and the ones left cost more.
How does it work?
- Connect
- Open orders and stock records
- Supplier confirmations by email, PDF or EDI
- Shipping and delivery updates
- Planning spreadsheets
- Assist
- Extraction of dates, quantities and prices from confirmations
- Exception detection against open orders
- Delay-risk alerts
- Planner copilots that explain each exception
- Keep people in control
- Planners approve every replenishment
- External commitments always need a person
- Low-confidence extractions go to a person for checking
- What to measure
- Exception resolution time
- Planner hours spent on data entry
- Forecast error on selected SKUs
- Recommendation acceptance rate
Which systems does it connect to?
02.1 Use cases
Where can it help?
- i
Supplier confirmation extraction
Dates, quantities and prices read from each confirmation and checked against the open order.
- ii
Delay-risk alerts for open orders
Orders at risk flagged early, with the reason and the evidence behind the alert.
- iii
One exception queue
A single list of what needs a planner’s judgment today, ordered by impact.
- iv
Planner copilot
Answers about stock, orders and suppliers in plain language, with a source for every figure.
- v
Supplier performance summaries
On-time and accuracy patterns summarized for the weekly purchasing meeting.
Measure the baseline
Record how long confirmations take to process today and how often dates or quantities are wrong.
Pilot in read-only mode
Extract and check live confirmations without writing to the plan, and compare the results with the planners’ work.
Decide on production
Move to approved writes only when accuracy meets the threshold agreed at the start.
Questions
Questions about AI in supply chain
Can AI place purchase orders automatically?
We don’t recommend it for a first project. In the systems we design, AI prepares replenishment suggestions and planners approve them, and every external commitment to a supplier needs a person. Once the suggestions have a measured track record, some low-value, reversible actions can be automated within limits the owner sets.
Does this work with Logo, SAP or spreadsheets?
Yes, those are typical starting points. Planning often runs on an ERP such as SAP, Logo or Microsoft Dynamics, plus spreadsheets and email, and we connect to what is there rather than replacing it. We start read-only, validate in a sandbox and write back to the ERP only after approval.
Planners buried in confirmations?
Tell us about the workflow. We will reply within one business day with a recommended first step.