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Automate the chain, from the order to the delivery.

AI and software for supply chain and operations teams, across planning, suppliers, the goods and documents at the gate, inventory, logistics and the plant floor.

One order, promise to delivery
StageWhat you know todayWhat the system knows
Demand
Last year, plus a percentage
Demand by item and channel, with the driver named
Purchase order
Sent and acknowledged
This supplier’s own record of lateness on this item
Goods receipt
A quantity keyed in at the gate
Quantity, quality and documents matched in one step
Inventory
A number in the ERP
The number, its age, and what is about to expire
Despatch
A vehicle left the yard
Where it is, and whether the promise still holds
Delivery
Signed and closed
What that order actually cost to serve, by customer

Every stage already produces a record. The chain becomes visible when the records are joined and made to agree.

In brief

We fix the master data, then automate the planning week.

EigenSpark builds AI systems and the software around them for supply chain and operations teams, end to end. We start with the item and supplier identity work, because nothing above it holds without that. We automate the documents at the gate: the goods receipt, the invoice, the e-way bill and the quality record, matched in one step. We plan demand, inventory and despatch on your own history, score suppliers on their real record, and show cost to serve by customer. Then we hand it to your team to run.

Your systems

Inside the systems your operation already runs on.

Nothing here asks you to replace your ERP or your warehouse system.

SAPOracleMicrosoft DynamicsTallyYour WMSYour TMSGST portal and e-way billWeighbridge and gate systemsSupplier portalsEDI feedsExcel planning sheetsPlant historians and SCADA

Use cases

Twelve things we build for operations teams.

Identity and documents first, then planning and inventory, then logistics, then the floor.

Goods receipt and document matching

Invoice, purchase order, goods receipt, e-way bill and quality record matched in one step at the gate, with only the differences raised.

Document Intelligence Engine →

Item and supplier master clean-up

Duplicate parts, vendors and units resolved into one identity each, with the evidence for every merge kept so your team can reverse it.

Data Engineering & Platforms →

Demand forecasting on your own history

Forecasts by item, channel and location built from your sales, seasonality and promotions, with the driver behind each movement named.

Supply Chain Control Tower →

Inventory, ageing and expiry

Reorder points and safety stock set on real variability, with slow, ageing and expiring stock raised while it can still be sold.

Supply Chain Control Tower →

Supplier reliability scoring

Every supplier scored on delivered lead time, quantity accuracy, quality rejections and document errors, by item, from your own records.

Supply Chain Control Tower →

Despatch, route and load planning

Loads built and routed against vehicle capacity, delivery windows and cost, with the plan compared against what actually ran.

AI & Data Strategy →

Freight and cost to serve

Freight bills checked against contracted rates and actual movements, and cost pushed down to the order, the customer and the item.

Data Engineering & Platforms →

Transport documents and compliance

E-way bills, invoices and vehicle details checked against each other and against validity before a vehicle leaves, and tracked while it moves.

Continuous Compliance Monitor →

Production planning and scheduling

Sequences built against capacity, changeover cost and material availability, and rebuilt when the floor reports something different.

AI & Data Strategy →

Quality inspection records

Inspection sheets, test certificates and rejection notes read into one record per batch, and linked back to the supplier and the process.

Document Intelligence Engine →

Equipment failure risk

Failure risk flagged from the signals your plant already produces, so maintenance is planned into a window you choose.

Predictive Maintenance System →

One view across plants and warehouses

Orders, stock, movements and promises in one place across sites, defined once, so two plants stop reporting different numbers.

Data Engineering & Platforms →

How an engagement runs

How we work with you.

Fix the item and supplier identity, automate one leg, then hand it over.

01

Fix the item and supplier identity

Two to three weeks resolving the item master, the supplier master and the unit of measure across your plants and systems, into one identity each. Everything else on this page depends on this.

  • Item, supplier and location masters resolved
  • One unit of measure and conversion set
  • Every duplicate listed with its evidence
02

Automate one leg

One leg taken end to end: the documents at the gate, demand planning for one category, or despatch and freight. Small enough to prove in a quarter and measured against your own last one.

  • Built on your own transactions and documents
  • Measured against your current fill rate and cost
  • The planner and the gate keep the final say
03

Hand it to your team

Planning parameters, supplier scorecards, match tolerances, routing rules and reorder logic live in a console your own team runs. A new plant, item or supplier does not need us.

  • Parameters and rules owned by operations
  • Documentation and training for the people who run it
  • Deployed in your own cloud tenancy

Training

We train your operations team to do this work with AI.

Ninety-minute hands-on sessions, run on your own transactions, gate documents and plant data.

Planners and buyers

AI on the planning week

Forecasting, exception handling and document work practised on your own items and suppliers, so the exercises use the parts you actually buy.

Walk away withA forecast and an exception routine for one category, built in the session.

Plant and warehouse teams

Data from the floor up

Querying transaction and historian data directly, reading the gate documents, and automating the reports rebuilt at every shift change.

Walk away withOne shift report automated, and a gate document read in without anyone retyping it.

The COO and supply chain head

What a forecast is worth

How to read an accuracy claim, why master data decides the outcome, and where a model belongs in a decision that stops a line.

Walk away withA standard for accepting a forecast, and what to fix in the master data first.

Operations teams usually take Data & Analytics and Enterprise Systems, with AI & Machine Learning for the planners. The full catalogue is in Training & Enablement.

The engineering half

What sits under the AI.

Four layers of ordinary engineering. The first one is the reason most planning projects fail.

01
Identity

One item, one supplier, one location

A forecast is arithmetic once an item means the same thing everywhere. Until then it is arithmetic on three different products with the same name.

Item and BOM masterSupplier master and Udyam statusPlant and warehouse hierarchyUnit of measureCustomer and ship-toCost and profit centreCalendar and shift
02
Integration

The systems operations actually runs on

Your ERP stays the system of record. Most of the effort is everything at the edges: the gate, the warehouse, the transporter, the supplier and the floor.

SAP and OracleDynamics and TallyWMS and TMSWeighbridge and gateGST portal and e-way billSupplier portals and EDIHistorians and SCADA
03
Application

Screens built for a planner and a gate

Built for the person deciding under time pressure, with the exception, the document and the rule in one view, so a call can be made at the gate.

Exception queuesPlanning workbenchGate and receipt screenSupplier scorecardRule and parameter consoleRole-based accessAudit log
04
Reporting

The numbers operations and finance agree on

Defined once and used everywhere, so the plant report, the supply chain review and the ledger cannot disagree. Your team runs and owns it.

Fill rate and OTIFForecast accuracyInventory days and ageingSupplier lead timeCost to serveDocument match rateUnplanned downtime

We also run the training that goes with it: SQL and data engineering, cloud, enterprise systems and cybersecurity, alongside the AI tracks. A planning team that can query its own transaction data sets better parameters.

What we offer operations teams

Four ways to work with us.

Most teams start with the documents at the gate or one planning category, and use three of the four.

The specifics change by sector. See how this lands in Manufacturing or Retail & CPG.

Security and controls

How we keep you in control.

The planner decides, every exception opens onto its document, and no order places itself.

01

The planner and the gate decide

Forecasts, reorder proposals, load plans and receipt exceptions go to the person accountable for the call, with the working visible and the override kept.

02

Every exception opens onto its document

A quantity difference, a rate variance or a rejected receipt links back to the invoice, the e-way bill or the inspection sheet it came from.

03

No order places itself

No purchase order is raised, no payment is released and no despatch is authorised by a system. It proposes and evidences, and your approval chain acts.

04

Parameters belong to you

Safety stock, reorder logic, match tolerances, scorecard weights and routing rules are managed by your own team. A changed parameter does not need a release.

FAQs

Questions operations leaders ask us.

Do you do end-to-end supply chain work, or only the software?

End to end, across planning, sourcing documents, the gate, the warehouse, the logistics leg and the plant floor. Some of that is AI, a great deal of it is integration and data engineering, and some of it is process work with your own team. What we scope for you depends on where your chain actually loses money, which is what the assessment establishes.

Do you replace SAP or our warehouse system?

No. Your ERP stays the system of record and the WMS keeps running the warehouse. The work is the identity layer underneath them, the documents at the edges, and one view across plants that the ERP was never asked to produce. Writes go back through your own interfaces.

Our master data is a mess. Should we fix that before calling you?

No, that is the first piece of work. Every planning project that skips it produces confident numbers about the wrong items. We resolve items, suppliers, locations and units, keep the evidence for every merge so your team can reverse it, and hand you the list of what was ambiguous. It usually takes two to three weeks.

Can you help with e-way bills and detentions?

Yes. Most detentions come from a mismatch between the invoice, the e-way bill and the goods, or from validity running out in transit. We check all three against each other before the vehicle leaves, hold anything inconsistent, and track validity while the vehicle moves. The rule set is configuration your team edits.

How accurate will the forecast be?

We will not quote a number before seeing your history. What we do first is measure your current accuracy by item and by category, because most teams do not have that baseline, and then measure any model against your own baseline. Some categories improve a great deal and some barely move, and we report both.

What about the plant floor? Does that need new equipment?

It depends on the use case, and it is a question the assessment answers with your engineers, and we will not answer it in advance. Most plants already produce far more signal than they use, in historians, quality systems, maintenance logs and the ERP. We start there, and where a use case genuinely needs something more, we scope it with you.

Is all of this AI?

No, and the parts that are not are usually what makes the AI work. Resolving the item master, connecting the weighbridge, reading the gate documents and building the planning engine are ordinary engineering, and they are most of the effort. The same is true of the training: alongside the AI tracks we run SQL, data engineering, cloud, enterprise systems and cybersecurity.

How large does an operation need to be for this to make sense?

The document work at the gate pays for itself at a single site with a busy gate, because the saving is per document. The planning and cost to serve work needs enough items, sites and orders for the pooling to be hiding something, which in practice means two or more locations or a few thousand active items.

Related

Related pages.

The products this ships as, the services under them, and the industries where the specifics change.

Send us a month of goods receipts and one item master.

Send the receipts, the matching invoices and an export of your item and supplier masters. We call you within 48 hours and go through how many duplicates you are carrying, what share of receipts matched cleanly, and what the first automation would be.

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