"Denuded, 220g portions, cryovac" arrives as a WhatsApp message.
Meat is ordered by piece, priced by weight and cut to spec. All of it has to be traceable. ManualOut takes the order however the chef or butcher sent it and turns it into a clean ERP sales order.
The daily reality
What the order desk is actually dealing with
Ordered by piece, invoiced by kilo
That is catch weight: the order, the pick and the invoice never quite match. Every manual step between them is somewhere the numbers can drift.
The cut spec is free text
"Denuded, 220g portions, cryovac" is not a field on a form. It arrives in a message and has to survive all the way to the packing bench.
Traceability is not optional
When something goes wrong you need the order, the spec and who asked for what. Rebuilding that from an inbox is not a good afternoon.
Chilled product on a fixed route
The cutoff is real. Typing an order late does not delay it — it misses the van entirely.
Where ManualOut fits
What changes once orders read themselves
The spec stays on the order
The message the customer sent stays attached permanently, so the cut spec and the audit trail live with the order itself.
A timestamped record of every step
Received, read, checked, sent to ERP, confirmed — each with a time against it. Traceability stops being detective work.
Cutoff applied automatically
Orders past your cutoff roll forward by rule, so the delivery date is one the cold chain can actually meet.
Weights captured as ordered
Quantities go into your ERP exactly as the customer sent them, so the weight reconciliation has clean input.
In the product
A meat & poultry order, read and checked
On the left is the message, as the customer sent it. On the right is what ManualOut made of it — and what it flagged for a person.
Bayside Provisions
For Thursday: Ribeye — denuded, 220g portions, cryovac x 40 Chicken supreme, skin on, 180-200g x 60 Pork belly, rind on, 5kg pieces x 4 Lamb rump, 300g+ x 24 Beef mince 12% — 10kg Portions need to be exact this time please
The original message stays attached to the order — permanently.
| Product | Unit | Qty | Line |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ribeye — denuded, 220g, cryovacCut spec carried to the packing bench | PCE | 40 | $316.00 |
| Chicken Supreme — skin on, 180-200gCatch weight | PCE | 60 | $204.00 |
| Pork Belly — rind on, 5kgCatch weight | PCE | 4 | $124.00 |
| Lamb Rump — 300g+Catch weight | PCE | 24 | $230.40 |
| Beef Mince 12% | KG | 10 | $62.00 |
- Order value
- $936.40
- Minimum
- $400.00
- Status
- Minimum met
"Denuded, 220g portions, cryovac" is not a field on a form. It arrives as free text and has to survive to the bench — so the original message stays attached to the order, permanently.
- ERP order no.
- SO-4471203
- Synced by
- Automatic
- Synced at
- 14 May 2026, 10:17 PM
- Confidence
- 94%
- Order received
- AI parsing completed
- Validation completed
- Inventory checked
- Synced to ERP
- Order confirmed
How orders arrive
The channel mix in this trade
Email carries most of it. Wherever it arrives, the cut spec is free text.
- Email44%
- WhatsApp30%
- Voice16%
- File upload10%
Illustrative — the typical shape of an order book in this trade, not measured data. Your own mix appears in the dashboard once orders start flowing.
Questions
What buyers in this trade ask
- Does it handle catch weight?
- Quantities are captured as ordered — 40 portions, 4 bellies — so your ERP's weight reconciliation works from clean input. The gap between ordered, picked and invoiced is a real one; ManualOut makes sure it does not start with a typing error.
- Can it carry a cut specification through to production?
- "Denuded, 220g portions, cryovac" maps to the product code for that spec, and the customer's original message stays attached to the order permanently. Nothing depends on someone remembering what was asked for.
- We need traceability. What does it record?
- Every order carries a timestamped trail: received, read, checked, sent to ERP, confirmed. When something goes wrong you have the order, the spec and who asked for what, without reconstructing it from an inbox.
- Chilled goes out on a fixed route. Does it respect our cutoff?
- Yes. Cutoff is applied by rule per account, so the delivery date on the order is one the cold chain can actually meet rather than one somebody promised.
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See it run on one of your own orders
Send us a real order — the messiest one you can find. We will run it live and show you what happens when it works, and when it does not.