Automated import of customer orders into the MCS system

What MCS Connect does

Your customers send orders in different ways, most often as PDFs, but also as Excel spreadsheets and text files. MCS Connect works with these and other file types.

The system reads each file and builds a live Imported Order with the details you would normally key by hand: the PO number, order and arrival dates, customer, manufacturer, products, quantities and units of measure. Your staff review each live order, then approve it for import into MCS.

Savings

With MCS Connect, the system does the reading and data entry. Your staff's time is limited to reviewing and approving each order instead of keying it by hand.

• Time: staff spend their time reviewing orders, not typing them, and can put the time saved back into your customers and principals.
• Cost: the labor cost of order entry drops to the cost of reviewing each order.
• Growth: more customers and more orders do not require more order-entry staff.

Built into your MCS system

MCS Connect was designed to work with the MCS system you already use. Approved orders come out in the same Imported Order format your system already imports, so there is nothing new to install on the MCS side and nothing to rekey. Once imported, the orders go directly into the MCS Order Processing System.

Artificial intelligence

Traditional import tools need every order to follow a fixed format or arrive through an EDI connection. MCS Connect uses AI, built on Claude, Anthropic's AI model, to read each customer's order the way a person would, finding the right information wherever it sits on the page.

Just as important, it recognizes when it isn't sure and flags that line for your staff rather than guessing. And because AI technology keeps advancing, MCS Connect will keep improving too.

Accuracy

• Orders are not retyped, which removes keying errors such as transposed numbers, wrong items and wrong quantities.
• Values the system cannot confirm, such as a unit of measure, are flagged for review instead of being entered.
• Every order is reviewed and approved by your staff before it is imported. Nothing is imported automatically.
• Fewer keying errors means more accurate sales history, commissions and principal reporting.