For a manufacturer, a material shipment means not only an invoice and a delivery note but also conformity documents: a CE declaration, a material certificate to an EN standard, the manufacturer's test report. The purchasing department receives them by e-mail or with the shipment and saves them in a SharePoint folder by supplier, the purchase order sits in Business Central, SAP Business One or NetSuite, and accounting keys the invoice into the same ERP separately, without linking it to the certificate. When a customer or auditor asks you to prove which batch a product was made from and whether its certificate was valid, a search through folders begins. More often, an outdated or missing certificate is noticed only after the material has already been used.
We implement document recognition with an integration into Business Central, SAP Business One or NetSuite. Invoices, delivery notes and conformity documents from the mailbox or scanner enter a single flow. Recognition extracts invoice lines, quantities and prices, and from declarations and certificates it takes the material designation, the standard, the batch or heat number, the issue date and the validity. The solution then checks three things: whether the invoice and delivery note match the purchase order in the ERP, whether each order line that requires a certificate under your rules has one, and whether the certificate is assigned to exactly that batch and is valid. Missing, outdated or mismatched documents are flagged to the purchasing department with the specific line, so the supplier can be asked before the material enters production. Reconciled documents are prepared as a purchase invoice entry in the ERP with the status "awaiting approval" and with the certificates linked to the batch in the SharePoint library, and an accountant approves. Nothing reaches the books without approval. Documents are processed in MDP CLOUD's cloud in Lithuania (EU) or in your Microsoft 365 tenant, and each batch's document set is visible in a log for audit purposes.