Built for the way your vertical orders
Every line of distribution has its own order-entry mess: dimension strings in fasteners, footage conversions in PVF, jobsite ship-tos in electrical. OrderDrafter handles the specifics — because generic document AI doesn't know a coil match from a keg count.
Electrical Distributors
Contractor POs are a special kind of chaos: manufacturer catalog numbers mixed with the customer's own job codes, wire quantities in feet against reels in stock, and a different jobsite ship-to on every order. Your CSRs untangle it 20 minutes at a time. AI that knows your item master — and remembers every correction — untangles it in seconds.
See how it works for electricalPlumbing & PVF Distributors
Pipe, valves, and fittings orders live and die on contract pricing and units of measure. A PO priced off last quarter's contract, footage ordered against lengths in stock, and the same fitting described six different ways by six different mechanical contractors — your order desk catches all of it, one keystroke at a time. This is exactly the workload AI order entry removes.
See how it works for plumbing & pvfIndustrial & MRO Distributors
MRO purchasing is the messiest order stream in distribution: storeroom requisitions with free-text descriptions, customer stock numbers that look nothing like yours, blanket-order releases, and buyers who paste part lists into email bodies. It's why industrial distributors were the original target for enterprise order automation — and why a P21-native tool your size finally matters.
See how it works for industrial & mroHVAC Distributors
HVAC/R order desks run on seasonality: the first heat wave triples inbound POs overnight, dealer orders mix equipment model numbers with parts shorthand, and every order is racing an installation date. Automation that pre-drafts every PO means the summer spike is a review queue, not an overtime problem.
See how it works for hvacFastener Distributors
Fastener POs are dense: twenty near-identical lines of dimension strings — '3/8-16 x 1-1/2 HHCS GR8 ZP' — where a single fraction wrong means the wrong part in a keg of five thousand. It's the highest-line-count, highest-precision order entry in distribution, which is exactly where pre-drafted orders with confidence scoring earn their keep.
See how it works for fastenersStop keying purchase orders by hand
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