Manual order entry was eating the team's day.
For The Unscented Company, every wholesale order arrived the same way — as a customer-formatted PDF or email dropped into the customer service team's inbox. Someone had to read it, find each SKU in Odoo, transcribe quantities, capture freight notes, and build the draft order line by line. Multiplied by the wholesale volume coming in every day, that work consumed entire shifts.
Anie's team had tried to engineer their way out with internal macros — parsing scripts tailored to each major wholesale customer. But the macros were brittle: any time a customer tweaked their PO format, the macro broke and someone with technical knowledge had to rebuild it. The "fix" cost almost as much time as the original problem.
The real cost was on the team. Repetitive transcription is the kind of work that drives away the careful, detail-oriented operators you'd most want to keep — and customer service retention had quietly become a real problem.
- 3–4 hours per agent, per day, lost to manual order entry
- Macros breaking every time a wholesale customer changed their PO format
- Fragile in-house automation requiring constant internal maintenance
- Repetitive copy-paste work driving turnover in customer service
