Use cases: concrete applications in your operations.
Eight applications we build, from incoming documents to preventive maintenance. Each shows the problem, what the solution does, who keeps the decision and the result to expect.
Eight applications, from problem to result.
Each card gives the problem; open it to read the use case in five stages, from what the system reads to what is measured, and the result to expect.
Illustrative scenarioFigures are published only once measured with the client. We do not estimate them.
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Document Intelligence, Intelligent Automation
Incoming document handling
- The problem
- Supplier invoices and mail arrive by email and on paper; a team sorts and keys them before anything can be approved.
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Read in five stages
- Signal
- Supplier invoices and mail, arriving by email and on paper.
- Understand
- The type of each document and its fields, with a confidence level.
- Decide
- The right approver for each document; uncertain ones go to review.
- Act
- Reading and classifying are automated; payment-related fields are approved by a person.
- Measure
- Manual keying and time to approval, against the starting point.
- Expected result
- Less manual keying and a shorter path to approval.
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Data Intelligence
KPI exploration for management
- The problem
- Each monthly review starts with reconciling figures from systems that do not use the same definitions.
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Read in five stages
- Signal
- Figures from systems that do not use the same definitions.
- Understand
- Indicators reconciled on shared definitions, each figure traced to its source.
- Decide
- Answers to management's questions, in plain language, with their sources.
- Act
- Retrieving and computing are automated; interpretation and decisions stay human.
- Measure
- Time to prepare the monthly review, against the starting point.
- Expected result
- Reviews prepared faster, and discussions about decisions rather than about numbers.
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Optimization & Decision Support
Production scheduling
- The problem
- The weekly plan is built by hand; changeovers and late materials are handled from experience.
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Read in five stages
- Signal
- Order book, changeover matrix, line availability, staffing and raw material arrivals.
- Understand
- Where the plan loses hours: sequence-dependent setups, and the constraint that actually binds this week.
- Decide
- A candidate sequence with its trade-off stated: service level against changeover time.
- Act
- The planner accepts, amends or rejects it. Only an accepted sequence reaches the shop floor.
- Measure
- Changeover hours and on-time delivery, measured on the same lines as the starting point.
- Expected result
- Fewer changeover hours on the same lines, with delivery dates kept in view.
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Intelligent Agents, Intelligent Automation
Assistance for internal requests
- The problem
- Purchase and expense requests bounce between requester, manager and finance because information is missing.
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Read in five stages
- Signal
- Purchase and expense requests, with the rules that apply to them.
- Understand
- What is missing, or outside the rules, in each request.
- Decide
- Complete what existing systems can fill in; flag the rest to the requester.
- Act
- Checks and pre-filling are automated; every spending commitment is approved by a person.
- Measure
- Requests complete the first time, and back-and-forths, against the starting point.
- Expected result
- Requests complete the first time, and fewer back-and-forths.
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Data Intelligence, Intelligent Automation
Margin anomaly detection
- The problem
- Discounts outside the approved grid are found weeks later, once credit notes have been issued.
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Read in five stages
- Signal
- Invoice lines, price-list versions, discount grids and freight costs.
- Understand
- Lines priced outside the approved grid, recurring patterns told apart from isolated errors; below the confidence threshold, they go to review.
- Decide
- Hold the lines before credit notes are issued and correct the price-list fault at its source.
- Act
- Flagging and opening a task are automated; releasing a credit note needs a named approver; renegotiating a contract is escalated.
- Measure
- Margin leakage and detection lead time, against the starting point.
- Expected result
- Anomalies caught before the credit note, and margin recovered.
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Data Intelligence, Optimization & Decision Support
Promotional efficiency
- The problem
- Promotions are planned out of habit; it is hard to tell which ones lifted volume without eroding margin, and which only pulled demand forward.
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Read in five stages
- Signal
- Sell-out by product and outlet, the promotion calendar, price history, and competitor activity where available.
- Understand
- Which mechanics lifted volume without eroding margin, and which only pulled demand forward.
- Decide
- A recommended mechanic, depth and scope per segment, with its expected effect on margin.
- Act
- The plan goes to trade marketing for approval; approved mechanics are written back to the ERP price conditions.
- Measure
- Incremental margin per promotional euro, against the starting point.
- Expected result
- Promotions chosen for the margin they bring, not out of habit.
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Data Intelligence
Profitability by customer, product and channel
- The problem
- Revenue, costs, logistics, rebates and discounts sit in different systems, and nobody agrees on which accounts actually make money.
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Read in five stages
- Signal
- Revenue, cost of goods, logistics, rebates and discounts, drawn from the systems of record.
- Understand
- Profitability reconciled per customer, product and channel, with the definitions written down once.
- Decide
- Which accounts are structurally unprofitable, and what would have to change for them not to be.
- Act
- A review list goes to sales management ahead of renegotiation. Commercial decisions stay human.
- Measure
- Share of revenue under a known margin, before and after.
- Expected result
- A clear view of which customers, products and channels make money.
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Data Intelligence, Intelligent Automation
Preventive maintenance
- The problem
- Breakdowns are handled when they happen; intervention history and operator observations are not used to anticipate them.
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Read in five stages
- Signal
- Sensor readings, intervention history, spare-part consumption and operator observations.
- Understand
- Wear patterns that come before a failure, told apart from normal operating variation.
- Decide
- A ranked intervention list, scored on criticality and on the production window available.
- Act
- Work orders are created automatically; stoppages that affect output need a supervisor's approval.
- Measure
- Unplanned downtime, and failures caught before they have an impact.
- Expected result
- Fewer unplanned stoppages, and interventions planned in the right window.
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