Third-party logistics · Bills of lading

Biagi Bros created ASN barcodes from bills of lading without keying them in

Biagi Bros, a family-owned logistics company based in Napa, California, set up Docsumo to read its bills of lading and trucking invoices into checked data for its warehouse system.

A new shipment's bill of lading, one JPG page. Docsumo classifies it as a bill of lading and reads the PO number 7738214, 24 pallets, 1,440 cases and a gross weight of 30,600 lb. Its two freight lines, 14 and 10 pallets of 60 cases each, add up to those totals. The file is ready for review, and approved data comes out by API, ready for the warehouse system.

The customer

A family-owned 3PL with its own trucks.

Biagi BrosNapa, California · Arizona · Florida · Oklahoma · Texas · Washington

Biagi Bros is a family-owned 3PL, warehousing and transportation company based in Napa, California. Founded by two brothers in 1978 with one shared truck, it serves food and beverage, industrial paper, packaging and construction supply businesses across the US.

What they offer
  • Logistics and 3PLEnd to endDedicated warehousing, contract trucking and direct-to-consumer fulfillment.
  • WarehousingNationwideFood-grade, temperature-controlled and industrial paper storage.
  • TransportationTruckingIts own fleet, plus bulk liquid transfer and grape harvest transport.
warehouses across the US
30+
trucks in its fleet
200+
dedicated staff
600+
Their process

Every ASN waited on the paperwork.

Before Docsumo, the operations team read every bill of lading by hand to create advance ship notice (ASN) barcodes.

InThe paperwork
  • Bills of lading
  • Trucking invoices
CollectWhich document is it?
Paperwork came in as images and PDFs.JPGPDFPNG
ReadTemplate by template
Staff read each one and keyed in the shipment data. By hand
  • Many bill of lading templates
  • Data entry errors to fix
  • ASN barcodes waited on keying
  • Staff time spent retyping
UpdateInto HighJump WMS
Corrected data was entered in the WMS, ASN by ASN.
OutThe shipment
  • ASN barcodes
  • HighJump WMS
What Docsumo does

Built around their bills of lading.

Docsumo is an intelligent document processing (IDP) platform.

  • Many templates

    Every template, one set of fields

    Each file was classified on arrival and read into the same fields.

  • Entry errors

    Checks instead of rework

    Fields were validated as they were read, and a person saw only exceptions.

  • WMS updates

    Ready for the WMS

    Approved data came out ready for each ASN and its barcodes.

Results

What changed at Biagi Bros.

Bill of lading work at Biagi Bros, before and with Docsumo
Before DocsumoWith Docsumo
Bill of lading dataKeyed by hand from many templatesClassified and read automatically, any template
Entry errorsFound and fixed after keyingCaught by validation before the WMS
ASN barcodesWaited on keying and HighJump WMS updatesMade from approved, checked data

See how bill of lading extraction and document AI for logistics work.

See it on your documents.

Bring three of your hardest bills of lading. We will run them on the call and show every field and every check.