Resin delivery in seconds

The problem

Traceability to the customer starts with somebody typing under pressure.

The truck waits accruing demurrage while the receiving manager types the delivery note into the ERP. If they rush it, mis-traced lots slip through and surface weeks later when a part fails at the customer and the resin lot has to be traced.

• The truck arrives and waits while the receiving manager types the delivery note into the ERP line by line, with the driver watching, demurrage running and the warehouse blocked behind it.
• The certificate of analysis — grade, melt flow index, moisture, supplier lot — goes into a binder, not into the system.
• If the typing is rushed, a lot gets linked to the wrong material, and that does not show up at the dock. It shows up weeks later, when a part fails at the customer and the resin lot has to be traced.
• Each supplier prints a different layout, and none of them is going to change it for you.

How it fits the IRIS system

Connect in photo mode — the note, the certificate and the bag labels, as they come.

Connect photo mode. Computer vision recognizes the delivery note and CoA layout without asking the supplier to change theirs. For bag or gaylord labels, the camera reads barcode, QR or plain text via OCR.

The supplier changes nothing, the ERP changes nothing and the dock gets its hour back. Computer vision handles the layout that already exists, including the bag and gaylord labels, by barcode, QR or plain text, and one validation tap sends lot, quantity and properties into the ERP with the traceability an IATF audit expects.

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Before and after

Today's receiving versus receiving with a photo

Aspect	Today	With iLEAN Connect
Time the truck spends at the dock	About an hour	Minutes
The certificate of analysis	Filed in a binder	Attached to the resin lot in the ERP
Bag and gaylord identification	Read and typed by hand	Barcode, QR or plain text by camera
A lot keyed wrong	Surfaces at the customer weeks later	Caught at the dock
The supplier's paperwork	A different layout each time	Nobody is asked to change anything
Receiving and warehouse seats	2-3 people logged into the ERP	One manager, one tap · 50-70% fewer

an hour of receiving → minutes. Hidden lot errors → zero. Broken CoA-to-lot-to-part traceability → complete via photo.

Impact estimate

Impact estimate — to be validated with your numbers.

The block below is an estimate to be validated against your plant's actual data. We put it forward so the committee has an order of magnitude; we refine it during the assessment.

• Estimated payback 3-8 months, counting dock time and the avoided cost of a mis-traced lot.
• A typical reduction of 50-70% in receiving and warehouse seats, because the manager validates with one tap instead of logging in.
• Receiving from an hour to minutes, which is demurrage the plant stops paying on every delivery.
• The chain from certificate to resin lot to shipped part closed at the dock, which is where an IATF auditor starts pulling.

— *CFO angle*: the receiving/warehouse ERP module typically requires 2-3 active licenses; with Connect, only the manager validates with one tap without logging into the ERP. Typical reduction of 50-70% in receiving/warehouse module licenses. Estimated payback 3-8 months. Estimate to validate.

And the fair question from the production manager

"What if the note and the labels on the pallet disagree?" — that is not a failure mode, it is the point: today nobody compares them. Reading both is an anchored task where the best models drop below 1.5% error [1], and when the two disagree nothing is posted — the discrepancy goes to the receiving manager with both images side by side, at the dock, while the driver is still there.

^[1] OpenAI paper "Why Language Models Hallucinate", 2025 — on the reliability of AI in anchored tasks.