Supply Resilience

AI-Powered PO-to-Booking Conversion

Purchase orders are automatically turned into carrier bookings, so freight is secured the moment an order is ready — no manual re-keying.
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AI-Powered PO-to-Booking Conversion

What we deliver

The Problem (Before)

Every PO is manually read, interpreted, and re-entered into carrier portals, creating slow, error-prone booking and a constant lag between order and freight.

Who feels this:

International Logistics Coordinator, Import/Export Manager, Freight Procurement Manager

The Outcome (After)

POs are converted into ready-to-execute bookings automatically, with the right carrier selected and freight secured in minutes.

What makes this different:

Operates at the PO-data-conversion layer upstream of rate shopping. Rate-shop automation requires clean structured input; Booking Connect AI produces that input from raw PO data.

How it works

The building blocks behind this outcome.
What Happens

Booking Connect AI converts raw PO data into a clean, structured international booking request, solving the field-extraction bottleneck that prevents end-to-end PO-to-booking automation.

The Intelligence Behind It
  • PO-to-booking cycle time analytics
  • Booking error rate tracking
  • Forwarder utilization by lane and mode

This intelligence exists because the Graph aggregates behavior across 882 enterprise shippers, 10,164 carriers, and 3.6 million facilities over 11 years. No single company's data could produce it.

Why This Cannot Be Replicated

Parsing a PO is easy; reliably choosing the right carrier and booking correctly across every order type takes intelligence built on years of booking data, not software alone.

Digital Twins

Order Twin, Shipment Twin

FourKites Graph

Cross-company intelligence powering every decision

FourSight AI
  • FourSight AI: "What is our average PO-to-booking cycle time this week?"
  • Custom Insights: Booking demand forecasting from PO pipeline

Booking Automation Transformation

AI-Powered PO-to-Booking Conversion is one outcome in a broader automation of your freight booking operations. When deployed alongside these outcomes, booking becomes touchless across every mode. Booking Connect AI handles carrier selection and booking. Sam processes the documentation. The Graph provides rate intelligence and carrier reliability data.
  • Touchless Ocean Booking
  • Touchless Heavyweight and Parcel Booking
  • Booking Rate-Shop and Automation
  • Touchless FTL Carrier Tendering
  • Reliability-Weighted Ocean Carrier Selection

Validation

Deployment Evidence

Live in enterprise production, converting purchase orders into carrier bookings automatically.

Expected Impact Range

Booking cycle time cut from hours to minutes, near-elimination of manual entry errors, and freight secured earlier on every order.

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Every supplier document processed and linked to orders automatically. Zero manual data entry. For supplier-managed shipments, FourKites creates shipments and updates orders directly from these documents, eliminating manual shipment creation entirely.

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24/7 Autonomous Carrier Follow-Up

Your logistics team never makes another carrier check call. Every exception resolved before it impacts delivery.

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Instant Supplier Onboarding

New suppliers live on the platform in days, not weeks. No IT projects required. FourKites onboards suppliers by leveraging documents and the underlying carriers already connected through our existing 500K+ carrier network.

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One billion hours of operational work completed by AI agents over the next decade.

The supply chains that adopt autonomous execution in the next 24 months will define the competitive standard for the next decade. The ones that do not will spend that decade trying to catch up.
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