TIO agents vs manual data entry
The status quo is a person re-typing every shipment email into the TMS by hand. TIO agents do the reading and the keying. Each action has its own setting: it runs on its own, goes to your team for review, or waits for a person’s reply.
| By hand | With an agent | |
|---|---|---|
| Reads the document | A person | The agent |
| Types the record | A person | The agent |
| Checks it | A person | A person, where you say so |
Manual entry works. It taxes every shipment.
Keying each booking, pre-alert, and worksheet into the TMS by hand costs a small team the better part of an hour per shipment. The tax grows one-to-one with volume, and the record of what happened stays scattered across email threads. TIO agents remove the keying, not the judgment. Anything outside your rules goes to a person, with the facts already attached.
The old way and the agent way
Manual data entry
A person re-types every email into the TMS by hand. Roughly 45 to 90 minutes per job. Copy-paste errors compound quietly, consistency typically swings with who is on shift, and the audit trail lives buried in an inbox. Every extra shipment is another hour of typing.
With TIO agents
An agent reads the email the moment it lands and assembles the record, then sends it to your team for review. When a party does not match or one document contradicts another, the job goes to a person with the facts attached. The same rules run on every job, and agent writes are recorded. Volume stops meaning proportionally more keying.
Four places the difference shows up
Time per job
Manual keying runs 45 to 90 minutes. With an agent, your team reviews a pre-filled record in a fraction of that.
Consistency
By hand, quality typically varies by person and by day. An agent applies the same rules to each job it handles.
Audit trail
Manual work typically leaves the history in scattered threads. TIO keeps an agent write-event journal protected from application edits and deletion.
How it scales
Manual hours grow in lockstep with volume. With agents doing the prep, more shipments no longer mean proportionally more typing.
Each action has its own setting: it runs on its own, goes for review, or waits for a person’s reply. Anything outside your rules goes to a person. The typing is the part that goes away.
Where the work happens.
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