Manufacturers that put AI to work quote, plan, and ship faster On the ERP you already run, even one that is thirty years old

Damco puts AI agents to work beside your planners, buyers, and sales engineers. Each agent prepares the work, and your people keep the decision.

Opel car assembly line in Gliwice, Poland. Photograph by Tupungato, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons, etched by Damco.

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Built for Seaboard Foods

The problem	What we build
A recall trace still means pulling lot records from three systems and a filing cabinet.	Lot genealogy from receipt to shipment, one search away.
Tomorrow’s schedule is rebuilt in a spreadsheet every afternoon when a line goes down.	A planning agent re-plans the line the moment it stops, and the planner approves.
The ERP is decades of RPG on an AS/400, and the people who understand it are close to retirement.	The AS/400 mapped program by program, then moved module by module, tested against the old system.

Built for R.H. Sheppard and T3E

The problem	What we build
A quote for a configured product waits days on the one engineer who knows the rules.	A guided quote that applies the engineer’s rules, sent the same day.
Dealers order from PDFs and call your team to ask where their order is.	A dealer portal on your ERP: orders, stock, and status without a phone call.
Technicians arrive without the machine’s history or the right part on the van.	Service jobs that carry the asset’s history and pre-pick the likely parts.

Built for QSC and XP Power

The problem	What we build
An engineering change takes weeks to reach the bill of materials, purchasing, and the shop floor.	One change, published to the BOM, purchasing, and work instructions together.
Shortages are found by buyers chasing suppliers by email.	A supplier agent confirms dates and flags late lines before they stop a build.
Product data lives in five systems, so the website, the catalog, and the ERP disagree.	One product record that feeds the ERP, the catalog, and the website.

Built for American Refining Group, Emirates Global Aluminium, and Vantage Drilling

The problem	What we build
Invoices are matched to purchase orders and receipts by hand, and suppliers wait to be paid.	An AP agent does the three-way match, and the AP lead releases payments.
Maintenance history sits in an old application nobody can change, so failures are found when they happen.	Maintenance records moved to a system that predicts the next failure.
Audit and compliance reports are assembled from spreadsheets before every inspection.	Compliance reports built from the records themselves, ready before the inspector asks.

AI agents
Agent	What it does	Works beside	Your person keeps
Quote agent	Applies configuration and pricing rules	Sales engineer	Price and terms
Order intake agent	Reads purchase orders from email and portals	Customer service	Credit holds
AP agent	Matches invoices to POs and receipts	AP lead	Payment release
Planning agent	Re-plans when a line, part, or person is missing	Production planner	The final schedule
Supplier agent	Confirms dates and flags late lines	Buyer	PO changes
Service agent	Prepares the job with history and parts	Service manager	Dispatch

Processes
Process	Today	With agents	Measured by
Configure, price, quote	Rules in one engineer’s head	A guided quote the same day	Quote turnaround
Order to cash	Orders keyed from emails and PDFs	Read, checked, and entered, with exceptions to people	Orders keyed by hand
Invoice to payment	Three-way match line by line	Matched automatically, and the AP lead releases	AP turnaround
Production scheduling	Rebuilt in a spreadsheet after every stop	Re-planned when a line stops	On-time completion
Recall and lot trace	Days across systems	One search, supplier lot to customer	Hours to trace
Modernize the ERP	A big-bang rewrite nobody will sign	Module by module, tested against the old	Programs moved

Five days with your team on one process, such as quoting, order entry, or AP. You keep the map and the business case either way.