How to use AI to automatically standardize your ShipHero data

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What is ShipHero?

ShipHero is a leading e-commerce fulfillment and logistics platform that helps businesses manage their shipping and inventory operations. It provides a range of features, including order management, warehouse management, and shipping integrations, to help online retailers streamline their operations.

Why would you want to automatically standardize your ShipHero data using AI?

Standardizing your ShipHero data using AI can help you improve the accuracy and consistency of your data, which is essential for making informed business decisions. By automatically cleaning and normalizing your data, you can save time, reduce errors, and gain deeper insights into your operations.

Some key benefits of using AI to standardize your ShipHero data include:

  • Improved data quality and accuracy
  • Reduced manual data entry and processing
  • Faster decision-making and reporting
  • Better visibility into your shipping and inventory data

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How to use ShipHero with Parabola

ShipHero's integration with Parabola enables powerful automation of shipping and fulfillment data processing.

  • Easily access shipping and inventory data through the Pull from ShipHero step
  • Transform fulfillment data to match your reporting needs
  • Create automated workflows for shipping analytics

Retrieving data from ShipHero

Getting started with ShipHero data in Parabola is straightforward using the Pull from ShipHero step. This step allows you to access various types of data from your ShipHero account, including orders, inventory, and shipping information.

Key features

  • Secure API connection to your ShipHero account
  • Multiple data type selection options
  • Customizable date ranges for data pulls
  • Automatic pagination handling
  • Real-time data refresh capabilities

How to use

  1. Drag the Pull from ShipHero step onto the canvas
  2. Using our ShipHero integration how to doc, authenticate the API integration
  3. Use one of the pre-built API connections to pull in an object from ShipHero, specifying the fields you'd like to pull and date range
  4. Run the step to pull in your data

Applying AI to standardize your data

Once you have imported your data into Parabola, you can use the Standardize with AI step to automatically clean and standardize it. This step leverages large language models to identify and correct inconsistencies, typos, and other data quality issues.

Key features

  • Automatically standardizes values similar to those that you explicitly specify
  • Add additional fine tuning to improve results from the model
  • Supports a wide range of data types and formats

How to use

  1. Drag the Standardize with AI step onto your Flow's canvas, after you pull your data
  2. Specify whether you'd like to standardize values within a column or column names
  3. Define the value(s) you'd like to specify, including example values
  4. Click "Update results" to apply the AI-powered standardization to your data.
  5. Review and refine the standardization results as needed

Practical use cases and examples

Standardizing product names

One common use case for using AI to standardize your ShipHero data is to clean up your product names. ShipHero may pull in product names from various sources, leading to inconsistencies in capitalization, spelling, and formatting. By using the Standardize with AI step, you can ensure that all of your product names are in a consistent format, making it easier to analyze and report on your product data.

Normalizing shipping addresses

Another useful application of AI-powered data standardization is to normalize your shipping addresses. ShipHero may capture addresses in a variety of formats, with inconsistencies in abbreviations, capitalization, and other details. By using the Standardize with AI step, you can ensure that all of your shipping addresses are in a consistent format, which can improve the accuracy of your shipping and logistics operations.

Cleaning up order data

Finally, you can use the Standardize with AI step to clean up your order data in ShipHero. This can include standardizing order statuses, order dates, and other key data fields. By ensuring that your order data is clean and consistent, you can gain better visibility into your sales and fulfillment processes, and make more informed business decisions.

By using Parabola's powerful data transformation capabilities, you can easily and efficiently standardize your ShipHero data using AI, helping to improve the quality and consistency of your data and drive better business outcomes.