Industry

THE RIGHT DATA,
AT THE RIGHT
MOMENT

RIV4 automates document management for industrial and manufacturing companies: purchase orders, Delivery Notes, supplier invoices and 3.1 heat certificates — with zero manual data entry.

RIV4 industrial document automation
Profilitec Gruppo Comini Centro Ricambi MAG Lechler Leonardo Siderpali Gruppo FIZ ICEL Tecnofluid BB Group ALA Stella Tec Plasson Riboni ITA FAET BB Group

Every format, every segment.

RIV4 is designed to operate across the full variety of industrial documents, with no standardisation required on input.

Documents handled
Purchase Orders
POs from ERP, email or supplier portal — any format, any layout
Delivery Note
Inbound Delivery Notes, item codes, lots, quantities, carrier data
Supplier Invoices
Inbound invoices — SDI channel, email, PDF or XML upload
Heat Certificates 3.1
Heat number, chemical composition, mechanical properties
Tech Datasheets
Material specs and product technical data sheets per item
Packing Lists
Item codes, weights and dimensions for quality control
NCR Reports
Non-conformity reports: defects, root causes and corrective actions
Work Orders
Production cycle documents and shop floor work orders

All industrial segments, in a single platform

Industry coverage
Industry segment
Main documents processed
Metal & Mechanical Engineering
Purchase Order Delivery Note Heat Cert. 3.1
Manufacturing
Heat Cert. 3.1 Purchase Order
Chemical
Heat Cert. 3.1 Delivery Note Packing List
Oil & Gas
Heat Cert. 3.1 Purchase Order Invoice
Automotive
NCR Purchase Order Delivery Note
Construction
Work Order Invoice Heat Cert. 3.1

Real automation, for real processes.

Three key operational scenarios where RIV4 eliminates manual work and transforms the way industrial teams handle documents.

Use cases
1 Purchase Orders

Automatic order entry into ERP

Industrial companies receive hundreds — often thousands — of purchase orders per day via email, ERP portal or EDI. Managing them manually requires dedicated resources. With RIV4, the entire intake, validation and data loading workflow runs autonomously.

Operational efficiencyAutomatic capture from email body and attachments (PDF, Excel, EDI) — ready for the ERP in seconds.
Data accuracyZero transcription errors. Automatic cross-check against item master and supplier registry in the ERP.
Resource savingsProcurement staff focus on supplier relationships, not copy-pasting data.
Purchase Orders automation

How the process works

1
Multi-channel captureRIV4 captures POs from email, attachments, portal and EDI — any format.
2
Data extraction & enrichmentItem codes, quantities, prices and supplier data extracted and enriched.
3
Validation & verificationAutomatic cross-check against item master and supplier registry.
4
ERP outputOutput in JSON, XML, XLS, CSV — ready for automatic ERP import.
Delivery Note automation
2 Delivery Note

Inbound document management & automated archiving

Every procurement process generates inbound documents — Delivery Notes, supplier invoices, PDFs, scans and SDI files. Reading them manually, matching them to purchase orders and archiving them correctly takes time, creates bottlenecks and increases the risk of 3-way matching errors. RIV4 captures any inbound document, extracts the relevant data, validates it against business logic and archives it automatically.

Zero-delay document handlingDocuments are captured from any source — PDF, scan, email or SDI. Key data is extracted and matched automatically across the full procurement flow: PO → Delivery Note → Invoice.
Automated validation & traceabilityEvery document is checked against predefined business rules before being archived. Discrepancies are flagged immediately, so errors are detected before they reach accounting.
Administrative workload reductionRIV4 removes repetitive manual filing and end-of-month pressure. Teams spend less time handling documents and more time managing exceptions, suppliers and procurement operations.

How the process works

1
Multi-format capturePDF, scans, JPEG, SDI: every format captured from any receiving channel.
2
Extraction with tailored rulesData configured per document type — free-layout Delivery Notes, structured invoices, SDI XML.
3
Validation against ERPAutomatic 3-way matching: PO vs Delivery Note vs Invoice. Discrepancies surfaced before approval.
4
Intelligent archivingAutomatic filing by supplier, date and job order. Always searchable and audit-ready.
3 Heat Certificates 3.1

Automated processing of 3.1 heat certificates (UNI EN 10204)

Steel producers issue 3.1 certificates to attest material compliance. Their manual processing — still common across the industry — wastes quality team resources and creates traceability gaps. RIV4 acts as a semantic document interpreter, not just OCR.

Full material traceabilityEvery certificate linked to the purchase order, lot, job order and ERP item — complete heat traceability.
Any supplier, any formatReads PDFs and scans from Outokumpu, ArcelorMittal, Marcegaglia, Tenaris, Feralpi and more.
Quality team freed upQuality staff focus on technical decisions, not manual data entry into ERP and QMS.
Heat Certificates 3.1 automation

How the process works

1
Document captureAutomatic ingestion from email, supplier portal or FTP. PDFs from any steelmill — digital or scanned.
2
Technical data extractionHeat number, chemical composition and mechanical properties extracted.
3
Validation & matchingCompliance check against internal specs. Matching: certificate → PO → lot → job order in ERP and QMS.
4
Structured outputExcel / CSV / JSON output for ERP and QMS. Automatic filing by heat, supplier and job order.
Work Report automation
4 Work Report

Work report capture & job-order reporting automation

Operators fill in work reports by hand at the end of each activity, shift or intervention. Hours worked, materials used, tasks performed and job-order references then have to be manually entered into the system for project accounting and cost reporting. RIV4 reads handwritten or scanned work reports, extracts the relevant data and imports it automatically into the ERP or management system.

Zero manual re-entryWork reports are captured from paper, scan or photo. Hours, activities, materials, operators and job-order codes are extracted automatically — no manual typing, no duplicate work.
Automatic job-order allocationEach report is matched to the correct project, job order or cost center. RIV4 validates the extracted data against business rules before pushing it to the ERP for reporting.
Faster and more reliable reportingAdministrative teams no longer have to chase, read and re-enter handwritten reports. Job-order costs are updated faster, with fewer errors and better traceability from field activity to final accounting.

How the process works

1
Document ingestionWork orders, routing sheets captured from ERP, email or scan-to-email.
2
Item & work centre identificationRIV4 identifies item codes, work centres and operation sequences automatically.
3
Data extractionOperation codes, quantities and quality parameters extracted and validated against master data.
4
ERP & MES outputStructured output to ERP, MES or quality system via API, FTP or direct integration.

Real results, real companies.

How leading industrial and manufacturing companies have transformed their document management with RIV4.

Heat Cert. 3.1
Euroflex S.p.A. Steel tubes, structural profiles & sheets

Euroflex receives 3.1 heat certificates from over 20 steelmills in different formats for every coil and tube batch. RIV4 reads, validates and extracts all data automatically, pushing it directly into the ERP — with zero manual entry.

Reduction in data entry time -87%
Operators freed from ERP entry 4
Steelmills integrated 20+

Before RIV4, four people spent their days manually transcribing certificate data into our ERP. Now it's fully automatic. We haven't touched a certificate in months.

— Quality Manager, Euroflex S.p.A.

Automated 3.1 certificate extraction & ERP integration
Quality / NC
Mecaer Aviation Group S.p.A. Aerospace MRO & manufacturing — rotary wing

Mecaer Aviation Group generates hundreds of non-conformance reports across production lines and suppliers. RIV4 extracts, classifies and correlates NC data automatically, producing trend analysis reports that identify root causes and supplier incidence rates.

Reduction in NC report time -75%
Supplier root causes identified
Hours saved per audit cycle 40+

RIV4 turned weeks of manual NC analysis into an automated report we run on demand. We can now trace every defect back to its supplier and process step in seconds.

— Quality Director, Mecaer Aviation Group

Non-conformance analysis & supplier quality reporting

Ready to eliminate data entry from industry?

RIV4 adapts to your operational workflow within weeks.
No standardisation required.
No documents to reformat.

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