How to Capture Customer Orders from PDF and Email Straight into the ERP

You capture customer orders from PDF and email straight into the ERP by connecting the customer service inbox to an AI layer that identifies the customer, maps their item codes to yours, checks prices and terms against the customer record and the quote, and opens the sales order in the ERP only after everything matches. DOConvert does this with a direct connection to Priority, Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP and Infor M3, with no template per customer.

Most companies still receive customer orders by email. The customer’s system generates a PDF, and someone in customer service retypes it into your sales order, line by line, SKU by SKU. This article explains what customer order processing automation has to do beyond reading the PDF, and how the flow runs with DOConvert.

Why a customer order PDF is harder than it looks

The items are in the customer’s language

Their part number, their description, sometimes only a product name. Someone has to translate that into your SKU, and remember that this customer calls the product something else.

Every customer sends a different format

An order from a large customer’s SAP, an Excel sheet from a small one, a free-text email with a list. A tool that needs a template per customer breaks when a customer changes their layout.

Mistakes cost real money

A wrong SKU is a wrong shipment, a return and an unhappy customer. A price keyed differently from the quote is a credit note at month end. With complex orders, medical equipment, packaging, configured products, this happens often.

What order capture has to do

Identify the customer

From the sender address and the document, including when the order comes from a buyer’s personal address rather than the usual one.

Map the items

The customer’s part number to your SKU, using that customer’s history and the item master in the ERP. No manual conversion table.

Check before opening the order

Prices against the customer’s quote or price list, quantities, requested delivery date, ship-to address. Anything that does not match stops with a reason instead of becoming a wrong order.

Open a real sales order

In the ERP, against the customer record, in the usual order screen. Not a spreadsheet someone imports later.

How it works with DOConvert

DOConvert is the AI layer for the ERP. It connects directly, to Priority through the DOConvert Priority connector, to Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP and to Infor M3, bi-directionally and with no middleware. Here is one customer order.

The order arrives

In the customer service mailbox, as a PDF, an Excel file or a scan.

DOConvert identifies the customer

From the sender and the document. No template per customer.

DOConvert reads the ERP records

The customer record, the price list or quote, the item master, through the direct connection.

Mapping and check

Every line is mapped to your SKU and checked against the customer’s prices and terms. A line that cannot be mapped or a price that does not match stops with a short reason.

The order is opened

Only when everything matches, the sales order is opened in the ERP as a normal order. That is how client orders into Priority ERP run, how Cargal automated client orders in a week, and how Infinya captures orders into Infor M3.

Who it fits

  • Manufacturers, importers and distributors that receive customer orders as PDF or Excel by email
  • Customer service managers who want the team talking to customers rather than retyping orders
  • VPs of Operations in companies with complex orders, such as medical equipment, packaging or configured products
  • IT and IS managers on Priority, Oracle Fusion or Infor M3 who want a direct connection with no middleware

Questions and answers

What happens when a customer uses a part number we do not recognise?

The line stops with a reason and someone in customer service maps it once. From then on DOConvert recognises it for that customer.

Does it work with Excel orders or free-text emails?

Yes. DOConvert reads PDF, Excel and scans, with no template per customer.

Does the order look like one that was keyed by hand?

Yes. It opens as a normal sales order against the customer record, and the team carries on with it as usual.

How long does it take to start?

A typical implementation is about 10 business days, cloud or on premises.

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Process overview

DOConvert revolutionizes B2B communications with cutting-edge technology that automates data extraction – a platform that extracts relevant data from any document type and integrates the data into your digital records system, without human intervention.
Our advanced technology automatically maps, recognizes, parses and processes data from complex documents in mere seconds, enhancing operational speed, boosting efficiency, and drastically reducing your costs.

With DOConvert, you are “hands-free.” You no longer need to copy/paste, or retype critical information embedded in your documents. Data contained in emails, purchase orders, invoices, and much more can be extracted and entered into existing systems in seconds.
Gone is the cumbersome, time-consuming, error-prone, data entry, saving you and your company time and money.

DOConvert revolutionizes B2B communications with cutting-edge technology that automates data extraction – a platform that extracts relevant data from any document type and integrates the data into your digital records system, without human intervention.
Our advanced technology automatically maps, recognizes, parses and processes data from complex documents in mere seconds, enhancing operational speed, boosting efficiency, and drastically reducing your costs.

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