What’s inside: connections to your systems · step-by-step flow
The question this file answersWho is retyping the delivery note into the WMS when the order already sits in the ERP?
Fits: mid-size manufacturers handling 50–500+ POs a day and the paperwork around them.
Typical pattern, not a measured dock — the manufacturing playbook has no volume for outbound documents, so we state none. Delivery notes, labels and packing lists are built from the ERP order, then keyed again into the WMS because the two screens do not talk. Worst at the afternoon carrier cut-off.
By the time the truck is booked in, its papers exist and the shipment is already in the WMS; the dispatcher's screen shows the two or three holds, not the whole day's loads. The person on the dock stops copying and starts checking.
Typical, not a measured client result. Every figure here comes from the playbook source named below.
papers built from the order, holds to a dispatcher — the same bridge as our PO file; no published figure for this desk
Before: delivery notes are built in a rush from the ERP, then retyped into the WMS. After: the papers come from the order and only the holds stop for a person. Without a source for the dock, there is no percentage here.
Nothing published measures outbound shipping-document automation, so this file carries no percentage. The build is the same document-to-system bridge as the PO and certificate file; the Deloitte (2022) figure there is about purchase orders and stays there.
Nothing replaces the ERP or the WMS — SAP S/4HANA, Oracle, Dynamics, Infor or whatever runs your dock. The build is the same order-to-system bridge as our PO and certificate file, run in the outbound direction:
Hazmat declarations. Address disputes. The customer who moved the dock appointment an hour ago.
A customer who changes the delivery address by phone an hour before loading is in neither system; that shipment is still a person's call. If the ERP and the WMS disagree on units of measure or address formats, the first weeks show holds that are data errors rather than real problems — cleaning that master is audit work. Where the WMS offers no API, writes go through a file drop and depend on your IT.
The path: free 60-second estimate → free 20-minute review → paid audit of this one process (€1.5–3K, typically two weeks) → pilot with your people in the loop (€10–20K, weeks, not quarters). No transformation programme. Prices are public, on the services page →
Scoped in the audit — the playbook has no estimate for this exact desk.
That depends on your volumes and wage costs — this page will not invent the number. The free 60-second estimate runs that calculation from your answers, with every multiplier sourced.
Not a named Aperanda client. Process file · Manufacturing.
Short process file. Same build as its parent file; the playbook has no separate volume or benchmark for this desk.