Industries · Industrial distribution
Faster quotes, cleaner orders, answers from live stock.
Distribution runs on a high volume of small transactions: RFQs with customer part numbers, purchase orders against blanket agreements, and a steady stream of stock and delivery questions. Each one means reading a document and looking something up in the ERP. The agents take over that part, inside your systems and under your rules.
The work today
Where the time goes in industrial distribution.
Part numbers that don't match
Customers quote their own part numbers, legacy SKUs and free-text descriptions. Cross-referencing them against your catalog is where quotes slow down.
Contract pricing that has to be right
Every account has its own prices, volume breaks and discounts. A quote priced from the wrong one costs margin, or the order.
Orders in every format
Purchase orders arrive as PDFs, spreadsheets, portal exports and email text, and each one has to be checked before it becomes an ERP transaction.
Stock questions all day
“Is it in stock?” and “when does it ship?” arrive all day, and each one costs a lookup and a written reply.
Industry workflows
Workflows the agents take over in industrial distribution.
Each runs on a ready-made solution or, where the workflow is specific to you, on the same foundation through the AI Operating System.
- 01
RFQs with customer part numbers
Resolves customer part numbers and legacy SKUs against your catalog, applies contract pricing and checks stock per line. Anything it cannot match is held for a person.
Handled by
Quote Agent - 02
Purchase orders and blanket releases
Validates each order line against the agreed price and your catalog, stops variances above your tolerance, and creates the sales order in the ERP.
Handled by
Order Agent - 03
Stock and delivery-date inquiries
Answers availability and delivery questions from live system data with the source cited, and routes anything commercial to the account owner.
Handled by
Customer Operations Agent - 04
Replenishment quotes from suppliers
Requests quotes from your approved suppliers, compares them like for like and prepares the purchase order for approval.
Handled by
Procurement Agent - 05
Supplier invoices against receipts
Matches supplier invoices to purchase orders and goods receipts. Variances above your tolerance, and any change to bank details, are stopped for a person.
Handled by
Finance Agent - 06
Workflows specific to you
Returns authorization, price-list updates or anything else specific to how you run can be built on the same foundation, under the same approvals and activity log.
Built on
AI Operating System
Our solutions
Ready-made solutions for industrial distribution.
Each adapted to your data and rules, plus the operating system that brings them together.
AI Quote Agent
Reads inbound RFQs, matches parts, applies contract pricing, checks availability and prepares the quote for approval.
Explore Quote AgentAI Order Agent
Reads incoming purchase orders, validates lines and pricing, checks credit and stock, and creates the sales order in your ERP.
Explore Order AgentAI Customer Operations Agent
Classifies incoming operational requests, retrieves live status across your systems, and answers or routes each one.
Explore Customer Operations AgentAI Procurement Agent
Takes purchase requests, issues RFQs to approved suppliers, chases responses, compares offers and raises the purchase order.
Explore Procurement AgentAI Finance Agent
Captures supplier invoices, matches them against purchase orders and receipts, applies coding rules and posts to your ERP.
Explore Finance AgentAI Operating System
Every agent and workflow on one foundation, one control layer and one activity log, built and implemented inside your infrastructure.
Explore the AI Operating SystemQuestions
Questions from industrial distribution teams.
Can it work with our customers' own part numbers?
Yes. Customer part numbers, legacy SKUs and free-text descriptions are resolved against your catalog. Anything it cannot match with confidence is held for a person, with the candidates it considered.
Does it use each customer's contract pricing?
Yes. Contract pricing, volume breaks and discounts are read live from your ERP when the quote or order is prepared, not from a copied price list.
Which ERP systems does it work with?
The systems common in distribution (SAP, Microsoft Dynamics and Business Central, NetSuite and Odoo), alongside Salesforce or HubSpot and your mailboxes. Per-system implementation is scoped during the review.
Where do the agents run?
Inside your own infrastructure. They work directly in your systems, so your records are not copied into a shared service. The model endpoints they use, and the data terms that apply to them, are agreed with you before deployment.
Next step
Find out where your inside-sales hours go.
In a workflow session we trace real RFQs and orders from inbox to ERP and show which of them the agents could take over first.
- Your current workflow
- Manual steps
- Systems involved
- Automation potential
- Possible first implementation
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Shipment and delivery questions answered from live data, requests routed to the right team, documents sent and exceptions escalated.
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B2B services
Client requirements prepared for proposals, routine requests answered or routed, and supplier invoices matched, coded and approved.
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