Thirteen hours in the office above the cutting floor. Follow one Friday at a pork plant, and one order from Verona, from the first message to the last truck.
Friday. A buyer in Verona wants two trucks of boneless shoulder for Monday. Follow that order, and the day around it, through the plant. AI reads, matches, fills and flags. People decide. The clock follows along and keeps count.
Orders · BOSS
The line starts. The inbox never stopped.
Buyers write at night, in their own language, on email and WhatsApp. By the time sales comes in, every message is read and every order is typed in as a draft.
Photo · 4:5 · img/roles/producers-0500.jpgThe cutting room at five in the morning: the line just starting, people in white coats and hairnets, the first sides on the hooks. Real plant light, no posing.
BOSS/Inbox/Overnight22:00–05:00
9draft orders
6questions for sales
5truck updates
3nothing to do
DEEmail · 23:14“Bitte 8 Paletten Schinken 4D für KW 47.”Draft order · Leg 4D · 8 pal
PLWhatsApp · 01:02“Łopatka bez kości, jedno auto na środę?”Draft order · Shoulder B/L · 1 truck
NLEmail · 02:40“Wat is jullie prijs voor buik deze week?”Question · price · for sales
FRWhatsApp · 04:05“Camion arrivé à Lyon, déchargement à 7 h.”Truck update · SO-0302
ITEmail · 04:48“Confermate il ritiro di sabato?”Question · pick-up · for logistics
18 more, all read and sorted
Orders · BOSS
An order lands.
One line on WhatsApp, in Italian. It becomes an order with a product, a quantity, a date and a buyer, linked to the chat it came from.
ITWhatsApp · Buyer, Verona · 06:52
Due camion di spalla 4D disossata per lunedì. Stessa specifica dell’ultima volta.
Read as two trucks of boneless shoulder 4D for Monday, same spec as the last order.
BOSS/Orders/SO-0318Draft
Pork shoulder 4D, bonelessFresh · 0–2 °C · vacuum, 20 kg cartons
Buyer
Buyer, Verona · IT
Quantity
2 trucks · 42.0 t
Delivery
Mon 9 Nov · Verona
Spec
PS-4D · as SO-0291
Price
As last order · to confirm
Source
WhatsApp, 06:52 · linked
Products & specs · Carcass AI
“Same spec as last time.”
Every buyer names the cut their own way. Carcass AI reads the name in any of 40 languages and maps it to one clear spec, so “last time” means one thing.
ITspalla disossata 4Dthis order
DESchulter ohne Knochen 4D
PLłopatka bez kości 4D
NLschouder zonder been 4D
FRépaule désossée 4D
ENboneless shoulder 4D
Spec PS-4D · Carcass AIPork shoulder 4D, boneless
Bone
Boneless
Rind
Off
Fat cover
≤ 5 mm
Temperature
0–2 °C
Pack
Vacuum, 20 kg cartons
Same as order SO-0291, 16 Oct
Stock & coldstores · BOSS
What is in the chillers, pallet by pallet.
Lots and best-before dates are counted as pallets come in and go out. The Verona order meets the stock it needs, and an old lot is flagged while there is still time to sell it.
Photo · 16:11Pork sides hanging in a clean chiller.
Chiller 2 · Shoulder 4D B/L2 lots
Lot 110427 pal · 17.1 tPacked Tue · BBD 24.11
Lot 110526 pal · 16.5 tPacked Wed · BBD 25.11
33.6 of 42.0 t for SO-0318Short 8.4 t
Chiller 4 · Collar B/L5 days left
Lot 10916 pal · 3.8 tPacked 28.10 · BBD 11.11 · no order on it
List it on MeatBorsa for checked buyers?List at my priceKeep it
Credit & payments · Ledgvero
Before you cut for them: will they pay?
The order is worth about €96,000. Insurance cover, open invoices and how this buyer has paid lately sit on one card, before anyone starts the saws.
Ledgvero/Buyers/Buyer, VeronaOver limit
Credit insurance cover
€157,400of €150,000 insured, after this order
Open invoices €61,200
This order €96,200
€7,400 over the limit
Last 8 invoices · days late
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0
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0
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5
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Paying a little later each month. Worth a word before the next big order.
Ask €7,400 up frontShip within the limitShip as ordered
Orders & stock · BOSS
What the second shift should cut.
Open orders on one side, stock on the other. The gap per cut is there before the production meeting, so the plan starts from numbers, not from phone calls.
BOSS/Production/Shift 2 · Fri 14:00Orders to Tue
Cut
Ordered
In stock
Gap
Shoulder 4D B/LSO-0318 and 2 more
42.0 t
33.6 t
−8.4 t+8.4 t planned
Leg 4D4 orders
18.0 t
21.2 t
Covered
Belly, rind on2 orders
12.0 t
9.5 t
−2.5 t+2.5 t planned
Collar B/L1 order
6.0 t
6.4 t
Covered
Add 8.4 t shoulder and 2.5 t belly to shift 2?Add to planChange
On shift 2 · 10.9 t added by Production · 13 pallets of shoulder for SO-0318
Transport · BOSS
Two reefers for Saturday morning.
Quotes come back by email and phone. They are put side by side and ranked on price and on-time record, for the temperature the load needs.
SO-0318 · 2 reefers · plant to Verona · pick-up Sat 05:30 · 0–2 °C
1Carrier AReefer · 31 loads with youOn time 97%€1,840
2Carrier BReefer · late on 2 of the last 14On time 86%€1,760
3Carrier CReefer · 9 loads with youOn time 95%€1,950
Carrier A booked for both trucks · Sat 05:30, dock 3
Marketplace · MeatBorsa
The old lot finds a buyer.
Lot 1091 went on the marketplace at 07:41. By lunch there are three offers, each from a company that has been checked: registrations, plants and approvals.
MeatBorsa/My listings/Lot 1091Listed 07:41
Pork collar, boneless6 pal · 3.8 t · BBD 11.11 · your price €2.10/kg
The trade document, the CMRs, the packing list and the invoice are filled from the order and the stock. Then every number is checked against every other.
Trade documentTo sign
CMR × 2Filled
Packing listFilled
InvoiceAt loading
Lots 1104, 1105 and 1112 match the order
42.0 t net on 66 pallets, the same on every paper
The plant’s approval number on every paper
0–2 °C on both CMRs
Delivery address matches the buyer’s record
Transport & returnables · BOSS
The dock.
Two loads tonight, and two trucks for Verona at dawn. Each truck is followed to the buyer, and every pallet that leaves is counted, so the ones that should come back do.
Photo · 21:9 · img/roles/producers-dock.jpgThe plant’s loading dock at dusk: a reefer backed in, doors open, pallets of cartons going in, someone checking the load with a probe thermometer.
Loading docksToday and Sat
SO-0309 · MunichDock 1 · 33 palLoading
SO-0312 · PoznańDock 2 · 24 palPapers ready
SO-0318 · Verona × 2Dock 3 · 66 pal · staged at 0–2 °CReady
On the road · SO-0302 to Lyon · unloaded 07:20
Pallets out today 123 · Verona holds 132 of yours
The office closes
Ten things done for you. Nine calls made by people.
AI did the reading, matching, filling and chasing. Price, quality, credit, carriers and signatures stayed with people. Nothing was sent, booked or signed in the plant’s name without a yes.
Done for you 10
Read 23 overnight messages in five languages, typed in 9 draft orders
Typed in order SO-0318 from one line on WhatsApp
Matched “same as last time” to spec PS-4D
Matched stock to the order, lot by lot, and flagged lot 1091
Put credit cover and payment record on one card
Showed the gap per cut for shift 2
Ranked three carrier quotes on price and on-time record
Showed who the bidders are, each one a checked company
Filled five papers and checked lots, weights and numbers
Followed today’s trucks and counted the pallets out
Your calls 9
Sales checked the drafts and answered the price questions
Sales confirmed the order and the price
Sales put lot 1091 on the market at their price
Finance asked for €7,400 up front
Production set the plan for shift 2
Logistics picked the carrier
Sales accepted the offer from Graz
The plant manager signed and stamped
The dock checked temperature and seals on each truck
Portal maps your plant’s day from email, calls, spreadsheets and the systems you already run. Every step timed. Then a short list of changes, ranked by hours saved.
