Explore supply chain automations built by best-in-class brands

It’s one thing to read about how leading brands are automating SOPs. 

It’s another thing to actually see how they’re automating SOPs.

In celebration of our latest product launch (you can now visualize the data from your Flow in graph or table form directly on the Canvas), we’re sharing free access to sample Flows that highlight five of our most common use cases:

1. Freight & parcel invoice audits: audit DHL parcel invoices against a rate card.
2. Inventory reconciliation: Compare inventory levels across Shopify, Netsuite, and ShipHero.
3. Order consolidation: Standardize and consolidate orders from Amazon and Shopify — plus report on sales by channel/SKU.
4. Freight invoice digitization: Parse freight invoice line items and categorize charges using AI.

Get exclusive access to an ops sandbox where you can see how companies like Brooklinen and Caraway run each of these processes. 

Freight and parcel invoice audit s

Parabola transforms your freight and parcel audit processes by automatically ingesting data from carrier CSVs, PDFs, and third-party portals, then compares that data against rate cards to find overages or inaccurate charges. With most carriers providing only 30-60 days to submit a dispute, audit velocity is key for any team shipping at scale — and auditing in spreadsheets leads to human error, unscalable process, missed savings, and limited visibility into billing discrepancies across carriers.

Beyond reconciling values like parcel rates and fuel surcharges, Parabola can also audit more complex values like accessorial fees, weight and dimensional charges, service level failures, and volume-based discounts. Even if your rate cards and invoice PDFs are totally unstructured and lack standardization.

Explore the parcel invoice audit Flow in a free two-week trial.

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Inventory reconciliation 

Compare inventory data across your ERP, sales channels, and WMS systems with live connections to all of the platforms and data streams you rely on. Prevent critical inventory issues and adapt in real time to changes in your supply chain like changing 3PLs or new retail locations.

Start by pulling data from Shopify, Netsuite, and your WMS into your Flow. Then, combine the data from across your sources based on identifiers like SKU and warehouse before doing a math calculation to identify discrepancies. To action on this data, create a dashboard, trigger a Slack message or email, and/or automatically update inventory levels across systems so you're not just identifying inventory issues — you’re mitigating them.

Explore the inventory reconciliation Flow in a free two-week trial.

Already have an account? Click to add the Flow to your private collection.

Order consolidation 

With Parabola, you can consolidate your order data across various sources in a single place, mapping sales channel data to your internal formats. Whether data is shared via email attachments, wholesaler portals, or API, automatically ingest, standardize, and aggregate data across sales channels.

This reporting Flow is especially useful for pre-ERP teams and for sales channels that aren't entirely or reliably integrated with your ERP. Several $100M+ brands use Parabola to ingest CSVs from niche sales channels such as wedding registry platforms like Zola and The Knot before using data transformation steps to standardize that data to match the format required by their ERP.

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Freight invoice digitization

When it comes to freight invoice automation, it’s a rare for a team to be working with a single PDF format. Most brands, 3PLs, and freight forwarders constantly find themselves working across a variety of carriers, making it difficult to structure data consistently. As a result, many teams settle by pulling the big number off the bottom of their invoices instead of maintaining comprehensive invoice records with line item detail.

With Parabola, you can easily parse messy freight invoices into structured datasets by leveraging LLMs and computer vision to make PDF parsing easy. Parabola’s PDF parsing tool was designed with varying PDF formats in mind, enabling you to consistently parse data from PDFs, even if the document format changes from carrier to carrier. Beyond extracting data from freight invoices, most freight invoice parsing workflows also leverage AI and additional data transformation steps to map carrier data to an internal format — enabling historical spend databases, line item categorization, and more comprehensive carrier scorecards.

Tracking inbound freight

While individual inbound freight platforms often have great visibility features baked in, tracking containers often becomes complex when you're working across carriers and freight forwarders who all share data differently. While you might have some shipment data in your ERP, TMS, or a Google Sheet, updating these systems programmatically becomes especially difficult when new integrations are required, or shipment updates are shared through unstructured channels like emails or PDFs.

Parabola’s inbound freight software integrates across APIs, carrier portals, emails, and PDFs to provide standardized visibility into shipments across carriers — no matter how that data is shared with your team. Consolidate shipments, match containers to POs, and dynamically task manage your supply chain.

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To learn more about the details of these major updates, check out this video from Isaac, our Head of Launch.

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