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Order automation, defined.
The terms that come up when you automate order entry. Plain English, including the trade-offs.
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Touchless order processing
Order processing where an inbound order flows from receipt to the ERP with no manual data entry, also called straight-through processing.
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Sales order automation
Automatically converting inbound customer purchase orders into sales orders in the ERP, without manual re-keying.
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Straight-through processing (STP)
A transaction that completes end to end automatically, with no manual intervention. In order management, an order posted to the ERP with zero keystrokes.
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EDI 850 (Purchase Order)
The X12 EDI transaction set used to send a purchase order electronically between trading partners.
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Intelligent document processing (IDP)
Technology that extracts structured data from unstructured documents using AI, OCR, machine learning, and increasingly large language models.
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Order-to-cash (O2C)
The end-to-end business process from receiving a customer order through to collecting payment.