order_processing · manufacturing · workflow
Suzano International automates purchase order processing with Nanonets AI-powered OCR
Suzano's European sales team manually keyed data from diverse purchase order templates spanning many end-customers — encompassing PDFs, emails, Excel sheets, and scanned documents — into SAP, making data-gathering and homogenisation the most time-consuming step in order fulfilment.
How it works
Common implementation structure
How this type of workflow is generally built, generalized across documented cases — not tied to any one vendor's stack. Click any stage to read what happens there. Specific products that implement these stages appear in “Tools commonly seen” below.
Stage 1 · Purchase order received
End-customers create a Purchase Order which is shared with the sales teams at Suzano.
Tools used
NanonetsSAP · partnerGmail · partnerOne Drive · partnerOCRVBAsMacros
Outcome
The Nanonets solution handles all document formats and templates in a single automation, significantly reducing turnaround time and requiring minimal human intervention for data entry.
What failed first
Prior OCR solutions were evaluated but each was limited to a single document format, making them impractical for Suzano's wide variety of purchase order templates and document types.
Results
Time savedsignificantly reducing the turnaround time
Volumemore than 200
Grounding & classification
Source type: vendor customer story
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