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AP automation for Global Shop Solutions from the shop floor to accounts payable

Job shops and make-to-order manufacturers run Global Shop Solutions from quote to shipment, and customer RFQs, purchase orders and supplier invoices still arrive as PDFs and scans. Fluent reads them and drafts Quotes, Order Entry records and supplier invoices matched to their purchase orders, with customers, vendors and parts resolved against your data. A person reviews every draft.

Agents

Automate the whole cycle in Global Shop Solutions

Ten agents, one for each document that arrives from a customer, a supplier or the shop floor. Each reads the document, checks it against Global Shop Solutions, and drafts the transaction for a person to review.

AP invoice automation

Supplier invoices matched two-way or three-way against the order and the receipt, with every difference shown on the line.

Packing slip automation

Packing slips received against the purchase order line by line, in the unit the supplier shipped.

Purchase order automation

Vendor quotes and requisitions become purchase orders, priced in the vendor's own currency.

Quotes

Quote automation

Requests for quote drafted as sales quotes, with the customer's own part numbers resolved to yours.

Order Entry

Sales order automation

Customer purchase orders drafted as sales orders, checked for duplicates before anything is written.

Shipment automation

Shipping instructions become shipments, every line resolved to the order line it fills.

AR invoice automation

Customer invoices and credit memos posted, so billing stops waiting on a person.

Cash application

Customer payments and remittances applied to the open invoices they settle.

Time entry automation

Timesheets and shop paperwork posted against the right job and operation.

Material issue automation

Material issued to the job without looking up the material sequence by hand.

Validation

Check every document against Global Shop Solutions before it posts

Each agent resolves what the document says against live Global Shop Solutions data, compares it with what the order and the receipt already hold, and shows every difference on the draft.

Resolved against Global Shop Solutions

The vendor or customer, the parts and the order behind the document, confirmed against your own records before anything is written.

  • Vendors and customers, by name and tax ID
  • Parts, including the other party's own numbers
  • Open orders, releases and receipts

Quantities and prices compared

Each line is tied to the order or receipt it refers to, and what the document claims is checked against what Global Shop Solutions holds.

  • Quantity against what is left to bill or ship
  • Unit price against the order
  • Each quantity in the unit the document gives

Ready to review

The draft shows what matched, what did not, and every difference, so approving it is a decision rather than a re-entry.

  • Every difference shown on the line
  • Unmatched values named, never guessed
  • Nothing posts until a person approves it

Comparison

No templates, no field mapping, no model training

Legacy document capture is configured per layout: a template for each vendor, a coordinate for each field, a model retrained when the paperwork changes. Fluent is configured in written instructions, and rewriting them changes what it does.

Templates

A template for every vendor, layout and document type

Reads each document the way a person does, whatever the layout

Field mapping

Fields found by position, so a moved column breaks extraction

No coordinates. It consults live Global Shop Solutions data before it writes

Model training

Models retrained on samples whenever a design changes

Corrections become instructions, so it improves without retraining

Exceptions

Exceptions fall out to a queue for manual keying

Reasons through variations and exceptions instead of failing

Changing behavior

Behavior changes through a configuration project

Behavior is set in written instructions you control

Governance

Autonomy you can hand to an auditor

Every agent operates inside boundaries you define. Every action it takes is recorded, explainable, and reversible before it posts.

Approval thresholds

A document over an amount or outside a price tolerance goes to the approvers who own it.

Audit logs

Every field the agent read, every decision it made, on the record.

Data retention

Your documents and data stay under retention policies you control.

Global Shop Solutions validation

Transactions are validated by Global Shop Solutions before they post.

Human review

Exceptions escalate to your team with the agent's reasoning attached.

Permissions

Agents only touch the documents and companies you allow.

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes. The agent identifies the vendor, finds the purchase order and the receipts recorded against it, and drafts the supplier invoice with each line matched two-way or three-way. A quantity, price or unit of measure that differs is shown on that line, and the invoice stays in the vendor's currency. A vendor or part it could not resolve is named on the draft, and your AP team approves it before it posts.

The agent reads the request for quote, identifies the customer, and resolves each requested item to your part, including when the customer uses its own part numbers. It drafts the quote in Quotes with quantities in the unit the customer asked for. A part it could not find is named on the draft, so your estimator sees what still needs a decision before the quote goes out.

Our engineers connect Fluent to your Global Shop Solutions company during onboarding and run each agent against test documents before it writes to production. The agents read your own vendors, customers, parts and open orders from Global Shop Solutions, and only touch the companies and documents you allow.

Not unless you choose that. By default every agent drafts the transaction and waits for review. An approval workflow routes each document to the people who sign off on it, with thresholds such as an amount or a price variance deciding who reviews what, and every decision the agent made is recorded on the document.

PDFs, scans, photographs, spreadsheets, email bodies, XML and EDI, forwarded by your team or emailed straight to the agent. There are no templates to build per vendor or customer: each document is read the way a person reads it, whatever the layout.

What would you hand an agent in Global Shop Solutions first?

Send us a batch of the documents your team keys into Global Shop Solutions today. We will show you what an agent can match and post, and what still needs your judgment.