Logistics & Supply Chain
Private AI for the paperwork and questions that keep goods moving.
Logistics teams handle a steady flow of shipping documents, customer queries, rate information and operating procedures. Private AI can help people find information and respond faster, while commercial data stays in an environment you control.
Use cases
Key AI use cases
Use cases built around the documents and queries your operations team handles every day.
Customer query support
Draft replies to delivery and shipment queries using your procedures and service terms, ready for a team member to check and send.Shipping document review
Extract key details from delivery notes, packing lists and customs paperwork, and highlight missing or inconsistent information.Procedure and depot knowledge
Give warehouse and transport teams one place to ask about site procedures, handling rules and customer requirements.Contract and rate search
Find terms, service levels and rate information across customer and supplier agreements.
Who it helps
Built around the people doing the work
Who it helps
- Customer service and operations teams
- Transport planners and coordinators
- Warehouse and depot managers
- Commercial and account managers
Challenges we often hear
- High volumes of similar queries handled by hand
- Procedures that differ by customer, site or route
- Key details buried in documents, emails and attachments
- Customer contracts and rates too sensitive for public AI tools
How it works
From customer query to checked reply
An example of how a customer service team might use a private assistant.
Your information
- Operating procedures
- Customer and supplier agreements
- Shipping and customs documents
- Service terms and FAQs
Private AI environment
- Hosted in an environment you control
- Searches only what each user may access
- Shows the sources behind each answer
What your team gets
- Draft replies to customer queries
- Key details pulled from documents
- Answers about procedures and terms
Connect the knowledge
Procedures, service terms and agreed customer requirements are indexed in your private environment.
Paste in the query
A team member adds a customer's question about a delivery or service.
Find the relevant rules
The assistant looks up the procedures and terms that apply to that customer.
Draft a reply
It drafts a response and shows the documents it used.
Review and send
The team member checks the draft against live shipment information before sending.
Benefits
What it can mean for your organisation
The outcomes we design for. Results depend on your data, people and processes, and are agreed with you rather than assumed.
Faster responses
Teams spend less time writing similar replies from scratch.
Consistent answers
Replies draw on the same agreed procedures and terms each time.
Easier onboarding
New starters can ask about procedures instead of searching for them.
Commercial data protected
Rates and customer agreements stay in an environment you control.
Capabilities
AI capabilities and recommended models
AI capabilities
- Drafting replies from procedures and terms
- Extracting details from shipping documents
- Question answering across procedures and agreements
- Summarising long email threads
- Classifying and routing incoming queries
Recommended model types
General-purpose language model
Hosted in your environment for drafting replies and summarising.
Embedding model for document search
Finds the procedures and terms most relevant to each query.
Smaller classification model
Where useful, sorts incoming queries by type or urgency at low cost.
Specific models are chosen during design based on your data, languages, accuracy needs and infrastructure, and explained in plain language.
Integrations
Works alongside your existing systems
Typical systems we plan around. Integrations depend on the systems you use and the access they allow, and are confirmed during design.
- Transport and warehouse management systems
- Shared mailboxes and ticketing tools
- Customer portals
- Document management and shared drives
- ERP and finance systems
- Email and office productivity tools
Security & compliance
Security, privacy and compliance
Security is considered throughout design, deployment and operation, and discussed openly.
In every environment
- Designed so your data is not shared with public AI services
- Access tied to your own users and permissions
- Hosting location agreed with you
- Configuration documented, so it is never a black box
Considerations for Logistics & Supply Chain
- Customer rates, contracts and volumes kept out of public AI services
- Access separated by customer account, site or team where required
- Driver and employee personal data handled in line with UK GDPR
- Records of how drafts were produced, so replies can be reviewed
Compliance stays with you and your advisers
Case studies
Case studies in Logistics & Supply Chain
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We publish case studies only for completed projects that clients have approved for publication. There are none for Logistics & Supply Chain yet. We are happy to talk through how a project could be scoped.
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