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AI for Logistics & Trading

Hong Kong's trading houses, sourcing offices, forwarders and distributors coordinate suppliers, shipments and customers across time zones — mostly by email, spreadsheet and messaging. We put AI into that flow so decisions are forward-looking and the paperwork handles itself.

What we hear from the industry

Logistics & Trading: the problems we are asked to solve

01

Forecasts are spreadsheets and instinct

Purchase quantities and safety stock are set by experienced buyers on gut feel; a missed shift in demand means stock-outs or a warehouse full of slow movers.

02

Shipping documents are retyped several times

Commercial invoices, packing lists, bills of lading and certificates arrive in every format and are keyed into the ERP, the forwarder portal and the customer update by hand.

03

"Where is my order?" consumes the team

Customers and suppliers ask for status by WhatsApp, email and phone all day; each answer requires someone to look in three systems.

04

Systems do not talk to each other

ERP, WMS, forwarder portals and customer spreadsheets hold overlapping data that never quite agrees.

How we start

How we start

  1. 1

    Discovery workshop

    We sit with your purchasing, operations and finance leads to choose one flow — for example, order-status enquiries or replenishment for one product family — and agree how to measure it.

  2. 2

    Four-to-six-week pilot

    We connect to the real ERP, WMS or document feeds inside your Azure tenant and run the pilot alongside current practice so the comparison is honest.

  3. 3

    Extend across products and partners

    Scale to more product families, suppliers and customer channels, and hand over a platform your team can maintain.

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