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Tarnóca Freight

Introduction

Taking the paperwork out of 1,900 shipments a week

Year
2024 – Present
Industry
Road freight & logistics
Location
Győr, Hungary
Timeline
14 weeks to production
White lorries parked at a freight depot at dusk after rain

The brief

Dispatchers were spending their mornings retyping documents

Tarnóca Freight moves around 1,900 part and full loads a week across Hungary, Austria, Slovakia and northern Italy. Every load produces a trail of CMR consignment notes, delivery confirmations, customs documents and carrier invoices, almost all of it arriving as email attachments. Eleven dispatchers were spending the first two to three hours of each day keying that paperwork into the transport management system, and invoice mismatches were surfacing weeks later at month end.

Before

  1. Email arrives
  2. Dispatcher opens attachment
  3. Retypes fields into TMS
  4. Files PDF by hand
  5. Mismatch found at month end

With Zephyr

  1. Email arrives
  2. Agent reads and classifies
  3. Matches to shipment
  4. Files and updates TMS
  5. Exceptions go to a dispatcher the same day

What we did

An intake agent with a dispatcher in the loop

We mapped the process with the dispatch team, collected 2,400 real documents and labelled them together to build a test set. The agent we built watches the shared inboxes, classifies each attachment, extracts the fields that matter, and matches the document to a shipment in the TMS. When it is confident it files the document and updates the record. When it is not, or when a weight, price or reference does not match the order, it puts the case in a review queue with the difference highlighted. Dispatchers now clear exceptions instead of typing.

  • Process mapping with dispatch and finance
  • 2,400-document labelled test set
  • Classification and extraction for 14 document types
  • Matching against open shipments in the TMS
  • Review queue with highlighted mismatches
  • Monitoring of accuracy, volume and cost per document

The outcome

Results

71%

of documents filed with no retyping

3 days

earlier detection of invoice mismatches, on average

2.5 FTE

of dispatcher time moved back to customers and carriers

The system went live for the Győr hub in week 14 and was extended to the Sopron depot two months later. The accuracy target agreed at the start was 97 percent on extracted fields; it has run between 97.4 and 98.6 percent since launch. We continue to run it under a monthly support retainer.

“My dispatchers used to start the day with a pile of PDFs. Now they start with a short list of things that actually need a decision.”

Réka BodnárChief Operating Officer, Tarnóca Freight

What was involved

  • Email & TMS integration
  • Document extraction
  • Review queue
  • EU-hosted models

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