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What is manual order entry
actually costing you?

Distributors your size are paying skilled people to retype emails, PDFs, and faxes into the ERP — every day, on repeat. Move the sliders to see your number. No email required to see it.

No black boxEvery figure shows its work — see assumptions & sources.

Your operation

120
Total inbound sales orders across all channels.
100%
25%
40%
10%
25%
PhoneEmail/PDFFaxEDI/eComm
12 min
Keying + checking SKUs, pricing, terms. The hero before/after is ~15 min → ~45 sec.
$34/hr
Inside-sales / CSR wage + benefits + overhead.
8%
Share of manual orders that need a downstream fix (wrong SKU, qty, price).
Advanced assumptions
20 min
85%
Top performers reach 90%+ (vendor benchmark). We default to a conservative 85%.
251
You're spending about
$174,000
per year on manual order entry & error rework
$118,000
recoverable per year
1.5
FTEs of capacity freed
$7.71
all-in cost / order vs $8–15
11 wks
until the audit pays for itself
Cost per order — today vs. after
Today
$7.71
After
$1.40

Illustrative target based on an 85% touchless rate; phone orders counted as 40% addressable by document automation. Your audit replaces these with a measured baseline.

Distributors using this approach cut order processing up to 80% and run 10× the volume without added headcount.Source: Conexiom / Proton (vendor-reported). MarginArc replaces this with your own audited before/after on engagement #1.
Get your full report

Want the line-by-line breakdown — and your number verified?

We'll send a one-page report with the full math, your channel-mix sensitivity, and the 90-day path to your touchless target. Then, if it's worth it, we'll verify the number on a real sample in a 20-minute call.

No spam, ever. One report and a single follow-up. Your data stays on US infrastructure.

Your order-intake leak — summary

[PLACEHOLDER: connect this form to MarginArc's CRM / email — currently the report renders client-side only.]

Assumptions & sources — every number shows its work
Cost per manual order ($8–15)Industry benchmark, Mirage Metrics (2026). Vendor-grade; your bottom-up figure (minutes × loaded rate) is used for your estimate.
~15 min → ~45 sec per orderConexiom / Revere Electric (vendor-reported). Used to frame the "after" state, not your baseline.
Up to ~80% faster / 10× volumeConexiom, Proton.ai (vendor-reported).
Touchless rate 90%+ (top performers)Vendor benchmark; we default your target to a conservative 85%.
Phone = 40% addressableMarginArc assumption — document automation targets email/PDF/fax directly; phone is partially addressable. Conservative by design.
Audit $15–40K · build $40–120KMarginArc pricing ladder; payback uses midpoints ($25K audit, $80K build), engine license excluded.
1 FTE = 2,080 hours/yearStandard full-time-equivalent.

This is an illustrative estimate, not a quote. The point of the AI Audit is to replace every assumption above with a measured number from your ERP and order sample — then we tie our fee to hitting it. No fit, no fee.

That's your leak. Let's verify it.

A working system you can measure in about two weeks — not a slide deck, not a sandbox demo. We'll baseline your real cost-per-order and put our build fee on hitting the number.