Ports & terminals
Throughput, Control and Uptime.
Where a terminal's purchasing and payables keep pace with the quay.
Requisitions & item master
Match each request to the right item code from the master and past orders, with the evidence on the requisition.
Procure-to-pay exceptions
Find why an invoice is stuck — a missing code, an unposted receipt — and work it back into the payment run.
Approvals & delegated authority
Route every purchase by the approval matrix, decide what policy allows and escalate the rest.
Receiving & quotations
Capture signed delivery notes on arrival and compare quotations on the criteria the tender published.
The operation
Quay cranes, straddle carriers and reefers run around the clock. The back office behind them runs on requisitions raised without item codes, approval chains many levels deep and invoices waiting for a receipt nobody posted.
Every gap is small. Together they hold up spares for the equipment and payments to the suppliers who keep it moving.
What changes for a ports & terminals operation
Spares ready for the equipment
Requisitions go out complete and correctly coded, so maintenance is not waiting on paperwork.
Suppliers paid on time
Order, receipt and invoice reconciled as they happen, not when the supplier sends a second reminder.
Approvals at the right level
Routine purchases decided inside written policy; exceptions reach the right person with the record attached.
Why Velocity, for ports & terminals
We don’t add another system to a ports & terminals operation. We take on the work between the systems you already run, and leave the decisions with your people.
A login, not a rollout
Velocity works in Oracle EBS, item master, approval workflow and email, where your maintenance planners and procurement leads already work. No migration, no integration project.
Specialist agents, not a chatbot
A team of agents, each with one job — finding, checking, chasing, drafting — that learns your item master, approval matrix and payment terms the way a senior hire would.
Inside your controls
Purchases are decided by your approval matrix. Nothing above a limit moves without the right approver.
Measured against your numbers
The baseline for your ports & terminals work is agreed with you before the pilot begins, and every result is reported against your own numbers.
See it run in ports & terminals
A supplier invoice stuck for weeks, back in the payment run in days
Up to 4×
faster procure-to-pay cycle
Pilot target
Ports & terminals
Every purchase requisition raised with the right item code
≥ 90%
of requisitions given a code, or a clear reason why not
Pilot target
Ports & terminals
Small purchases approved inside policy, not seven levels up
70–80%
of eligible small purchases decided without a manager
Pilot target
Ports & terminals
Questions about ports & terminals
What does Velocity do in ports & terminals?
Velocity is a team of specialist AI agents from Rigid Body Dynamics. In a ports & terminals operation it carries this work: Requisitions & item master — Match each request to the right item code from the master and past orders, with the evidence on the requisition. Procure-to-pay exceptions — Find why an invoice is stuck — a missing code, an unposted receipt — and work it back into the payment run. Approvals & delegated authority — Route every purchase by the approval matrix, decide what policy allows and escalate the rest. Receiving & quotations — Capture signed delivery notes on arrival and compare quotations on the criteria the tender published.
Which systems does it work in?
Velocity works in Oracle EBS, item master, approval workflow and email, where your maintenance planners and procurement leads already work. No migration, no integration project. It logs in with its own account and the permissions your IT team grants.
Who does it work alongside?
Maintenance planners, Procurement leads, Warehouse teams and Finance controllers. Velocity learns your item master, approval matrix and payment terms and takes on the chasing, checking and drafting between systems; your people keep the judgement and the final say.
What stays with your people?
Purchases are decided by your approval matrix. Nothing above a limit moves without the right approver.
How is a pilot measured?
The baseline for your ports & terminals work is agreed with you before the pilot begins, and every result is reported against your own numbers.