Transport Order Ingestion
Millions of transport orders arriving by email in wildly variable formats — each manually keyed into the TMS at roughly a minute per order.
Industrials
Automate industrial document workflows.
From transport orders to customs administration, Retab processes the documents that bottleneck your operations — at 10M+ documents per year with >99% accuracy.
The Problem
Every shipment runs on documents. Most of the work is still manual.
Across logistics, freight forwarding, and manufacturing, your team reads, keys, validates, and cross-checks documents by hand. These are all automatable.
Customs & Administration
Document packets with invoices, packing lists, and cargo receipts — manually validated against 59+ business rules and cross-referenced with WISO files.
Freight Invoice Reconciliation
Carrier invoices with charges, surcharges, and accessorials — manually matched against contracts and shipment records.
Quality & Inspection
Inspection reports, certificates of conformity, and material test reports — manually reviewed and entered into QMS systems.
Procurement & AP
Thousands of supplier invoices monthly — manually matched against POs and delivery receipts in different formats, currencies, and tax structures.
Compliance Documentation
Certificates of origin, customs declarations, and hazmat documents — manually processed for trade compliance across countries.
Case Study
How a leading logistics platform automated 10M+ orders per year.
Transport orders arriving by email in every format imaginable — different shippers, different layouts, different languages. Your team keys each one into the TMS manually.
Today
- Every order manually keyed — ~1 min/order, requiring 80+ FTEs
- Outsourcing costs $12M+/year with quality and turnaround issues
- C&A operators validate 120 docs/day against 59+ rules at full capacity
- Growth bottlenecked by linear headcount hiring
With Retab
- 90% of orders flow straight through — no human review needed
- >99% extraction accuracy across all formats and languages
- 16x faster document validation with automated rule checking
- Scale to 200K TEU without doubling headcount
Impact
- faster document processing
- 16x
- saved in operator time
- 30 hrs/day
- reclaimed for higher-value work
- 3.75 FTEs
Retab Platform
From process to automation.
Describe the industrial process once, then refine how Retab extracts, validates, routes, and monitors every operational document workflow.
Describe your process. Retab automates it.
Upload a few sample transport orders or C&A packets and explain how your team processes them today: which fields matter, what validation rules you check, how you handle exceptions. Retab builds the automation and connects directly to your TMS or CargoWise.
Results
“Retab outperformed every solution we tested, from open source to foundation models, and now powers our most critical document workflows at scale — processing over 10 million transport orders per year with >99% accuracy.”
CPO
Chief Product Officer
Leading European Logistics Platform
“Our C&A operators went from processing 120 documents a day at full capacity to handling the same volume in a fraction of the time. We reclaimed 3.75 FTEs and can now scale to 200K TEU without doubling headcount.”
Head of Operations
Director of Freight Operations
International Freight Forwarder
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Audited controls for secure document operations.
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