Receiving resin, skins and components, solved with a photo

The problem

Traceability down to the cavity starts with someone typing under pressure.

Receiving is a bottleneck against the clock. Every supplier has its own delivery note format and none of them will change it. Container labels are standardized, but the ERP still requires goods to be booked in line by line. There are only two ways out and both are bad. Either the carrier waits forty-five minutes charging demurrage, or the data is keyed in fast and the lots end up wrongly linked. The second error is the expensive one, and it is invisible on the day it happens. It surfaces months later, when the customer asks for full traceability of a batch of parts — a standard automotive requirement, where traceability reaches down to the cavity — and nobody can reconstruct which resin they were made from.

• The truck arrives with resin pellets in octabins, masterbatch, laminated skins, inserts and bought-out components. The receiving lead holds a delivery note with fifteen or twenty lines and faces a stack of labeled containers.
• Every supplier has its own delivery note format and none of them will change it. Container labels are standardized, but the ERP still requires booking in line by line.
• Two ways out, both bad: either the carrier waits forty-five minutes charging demurrage, or the data is keyed in fast and the lots end up wrongly linked.
• The wrong link is invisible on the day. It surfaces months later, when the OEM asks which resin lot a batch of center consoles was molded from and nobody can reconstruct it.

How it fits the IRIS system

Connect in photo mode — the note, the labels, no supplier changes.

Connect in photo mode. Vision recognizes the tabular structure of the delivery note whatever format the supplier uses, and reads the container labels, whether barcode, Data Matrix, QR or plain text by optical recognition. The system extracts supplier, material, lot, quantity and container, cross-checks against the open ERP order and flags quantity or part number discrepancies before the note is signed. The lead validates with one tap on the dock tablet and only then does everything enter the ERP.

The discrepancy between the note and the labels is highlighted before the note is signed, not after the truck has left. Today nobody makes that cross-check with a carrier waiting at the dock. And the resin lot that goes into the container is linked to it from minute one, which is the first link of the chain that ends at the cavity.

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Before and after

Today's receiving versus captured receiving

Aspect	Today	With iLEAN Connect
Truck at the dock	45 minutes	Under 10
Delivery note formats	One per supplier, all typed	Read whatever the layout
Container labels	Scanned or typed line by line	Read from one photo
Wrongly linked lots	Surface months later	Do not occur
Resin lot to cavity traceability	Broken at the dock	Complete, container to part
Receiving and warehouse licenses	Two or three	One, the lead who validates

from 45 minutes of truck waiting to under 10 · from lot errors invisible until a complaint to zero · from broken material traceability to full traceability from the supplier's container down to the part.

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.
• 💰 CFO angle: the receiving and warehouse module typically needs two or three active licenses purely to book goods in; with Connect only the lead validates. Typical reduction of 50-70% on that module, plus the removal of bulk-capture add-ons.
• Carrier demurrage, which is usually the first number that surprises people when the annual total is added up, eliminated.
• And full material traceability from the supplier's container down to the part and its cavity, which is the standard automotive requirement that receiving breaks today.

CFO angle — the receiving and warehouse module typically requires two or three active licenses (receiving lead, support, shift supervisor) that exist purely to book goods in. With Connect only the lead validates, with one tap and without entering the ERP: typical reduction of 50-70% on that module's licenses, plus the removal of bulk-capture add-ons and of carrier demurrage. Estimated payback 3-8 months. *Estimate to be validated.*

And the fair question from the production manager

"Does it recognize every supplier's delivery note?" — yes, without asking any of them to change it: the model extracts the tabular structure of the note with no per-supplier template. Labels are read by barcode, Data Matrix or QR where present and by optical recognition where not. It is an anchored task, where the best models drop below 1.5% error [1], and the lead validates on the dock tablet before anything enters the ERP.

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