Data Alchemy — Software IDP con AI
Logistics & Transport Industry

IDP Software for the Logistics & Transport Industry

Data Alchemy is the Intelligent Document Processing software built for the logistics and transport industry. 3PL operators, freight forwarders, couriers and haulage companies handle hundreds of delivery notes, CMR waybills, customs documents and carrier invoices every day, in ever-changing formats and layouts. The multi-engine AI captures, extracts and validates the data from each document and writes it straight into your warehouse system or TMS, with 99.8% accuracy (measured with Claude) and around 12 seconds of reading for a one-page document (average time with Claude Sonnet) — eliminating manual data entry and freeing your team from re-keying delivery notes and invoices into the ERP.

The challenges

The document challenges of the logistics and transport industry

Moving goods means thin margins and tight timelines: every document handled by hand is time taken away from operations and a possible source of error or dispute. These are the bottlenecks document automation removes for the logistics sector.

  • High volumes of incoming delivery notes from different suppliers and customers, each with its own layout.
  • Multilingual CMR waybills and customs documents for international shipments.
  • Reconciliation of carrier and courier invoices against agreed routes and rate cards.
  • Full traceability required by customers, customs and auditors across the chain.
Documents

The logistics and transport documents we automate

Data Alchemy recognizes and processes all the key documents of the logistics cycle, from goods receipt to transport invoicing.

Delivery NotesAuto-processing

Delivery Notes

Extraction of all delivery note fields and automatic matching with orders and shipments in the system.

  • >Sender, recipient, VAT number and date
  • >Items, quantities and units of measure
  • >Matching with open orders and shipments
  • >Inbound and outbound goods registration
CMRAuto-processing

CMR Waybills

Reading of international transport data even from multilingual and handwritten documents.

  • >Sender, recipient and carrier
  • >Vehicle plates and driver details
  • >Goods description, weight and packages
  • >Delivery clauses and instructions
CustomsAuto-processing

Customs Documents

Data extraction from customs declarations, packing lists and import/export documents.

  • >Customs codes and tariff headings
  • >Value, weight and country of origin
  • >Shipment and container references
  • >Duties, import VAT and charges
Carrier InvoicesAuto-processing

Carrier and Courier Invoices

Automatic reconciliation of transport invoices against agreed routes and rate cards.

  • >Route, date and shipment reference
  • >Rates, surcharges and accessorials
  • >Price verification vs. carrier rate card
  • >Flagging of anomalies and double billing
-60%Operational time
99.8%Accuracy with Claude
100%Traceability
Automatic item coding

From manual coding clerks to automatic item coding in logistics

In warehouses and shipping offices, item coding is still manual work: someone opens the delivery note, looks up the item code used by the supplier, compares it with the master data in the system and types in the matching internal code. Across dozens of notes a day, hundreds of items and suppliers who each use their own naming, this is the step that bottlenecks the gap between goods arriving and goods being registered.

Data Alchemy replaces that step with automatic line-level coding. The multi-engine AI extracts supplier code, description, quantity and unit of measure from every line, then validates the line against the item, customer and carrier master data already in your system: where the match is certain the line is coded and written into the system, where it is not the line is flagged to a reviewer instead of being guessed.

The result is that the people who used to do the coding stop transcribing and handle exceptions only: new items to be created, ambiguous descriptions, mismatched units of measure. Coding becomes a traceable process — every line stays linked to its source document — with 99.8% accuracy (measured with Claude) and no per-supplier templates to configure.

Carrier invoices

Carrier invoice software: automatic reconciliation

Courier invoices are among the hardest documents to check: hundreds of lines covering route, fuel surcharge, storage, cash on delivery and accessorials, in a different layout for every carrier. Checking them by hand means choosing between accepting them unverified and burning hours on a sample.

Data Alchemy reads every line of the carrier invoice — route, date, shipment reference, weight, applied rate and surcharges — and compares it with the agreed rate card and the shipments actually recorded. Price differences, unexpected surcharges and double billing are flagged before posting into accounting, not after payment.

The validated data is then written into your system, ERP or TMS through the AI agent or Data Alchemy's REST API and webhooks, with the original document always linked to the record. As with every other logistics document, the model is a licence plus pay-as-you-go credits: checking transport invoices follows the volume of invoices you actually receive.

How it works

How document automation works for logistics

From the document received to the data written into the system, in four steps and with no manual transcription.

  1. 01

    Automatic capture

    Documents arrive via email, monitored folder or scan and are captured with no manual intervention, whatever the format.

  2. 02

    Multi-engine AI extraction

    The AI recognizes the document type (delivery note, CMR, customs, carrier invoice) and extracts the relevant fields with 99.8% accuracy (measured with Claude).

  3. 03

    Validation against master data

    Data is validated and enriched against carrier, customer and order master data in your system or TMS.

  4. 04

    Writing into the system

    Validated data is written automatically into your warehouse system, ERP or TMS through the AI agent or Data Alchemy's REST API and webhooks, with full traceability.

Integration

Native integration with TMS and warehouse systems

Data Alchemy writes the extracted data straight into the systems you already use — SAP, Zucchetti, TeamSystem and the main TMS platforms — through the AI agent or Data Alchemy's REST API and webhooks. We do not replace your system: we feed it with clean, validated data, removing manual transcription between document and system.

Licences & data

Licences, pay-as-you-go credits and EU hosting

With Data Alchemy you choose the licence that fits your needs — Basic, Business or Enterprise — and buy pay-as-you-go credits for the documents processed. For a 3PL operator, freight forwarder or haulage company that means automating delivery notes, CMR and carrier invoices at a cost that follows real volumes; from the Business licence up, external fields and remote validation check the AI-read data against your ERP, for example item codes and quantities on a delivery note against the purchase order. Quote on request.

Delivery notes, CMR, customs documents and carrier invoices are handled on a GDPR-compliant platform hosted in Europe, so shipment data, customer details and agreed rates are stored on European servers — a requirement for logistics operators handling cross-border and customs documentation.

FAQ

FAQ — Logistics & Transport

Yes. The multi-engine AI does not rely on fixed templates: it recognizes delivery notes, CMR, customs documents and carrier invoices regardless of layout, language and supplier, even on scanned or partially handwritten documents.
Yes. Data Alchemy extracts route, surcharges and rates from courier invoices and compares them with agreed rate cards and the shipments performed, flagging price differences, unexpected surcharges and double billing before posting into accounting.
Yes. We write the extracted data straight into your warehouse system, ERP or TMS through the AI agent installed at your premises (a database, CSV/JSON/TXT files or APIs) or with an integration built on Data Alchemy's REST API and webhooks. The document stays traceable and linked to the record created.
With Claude Sonnet or higher, reading a document takes on average around 12 seconds for one page and around 18 seconds for two pages, against minutes of manual re-keying. For logistics operators this means registering inbound and outbound goods quickly, with no bottleneck between documents arriving and stock being updated.
Yes. On delivery notes, packing lists and carrier invoices the AI extracts supplier code, description, quantity and unit of measure line by line and validates them against the item master data in your system. Lines with a certain match are coded and written into the system; ambiguous lines, or lines with items not yet in master data, are flagged to a reviewer instead of being guessed.
Yes, it is one of the platform's automations. Data Alchemy extracts routes, rates and surcharges from courier invoices, reconciles them with agreed rate cards and recorded shipments and flags discrepancies, unexpected surcharges and double billing before posting into accounting. Pricing follows the licence plus pay-as-you-go credits model described on the pricing page.

Want to automate your industry's documents?

Activate the free Demo with 10 documents and try the AI reading on your own files, or contact us to plan a call with a demo on your own documents.