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Claude Partner NetworkOfficial Anthropic partnerDistribution & LogisticsAI agents for wholesale distributors
Thousands of SKUs, thin margins and customers who order by email, phone and portal. Agents take order entry, pricing and collections off the inside sales team.
In short
Midsize Wholesale Distribution companies use AI agents to take on four kinds of work: order entry by hand; pricing and rebates that leak; stockouts and dead stock; collections that wait. The agents work inside the systems you already run and escalate exceptions to your team; Luby's standard plan targets the first one in about 10 weeks.
Use cases
Where Wholesale Distribution operations lose the most time.
01Order entry by hand
Inside sales re-keys POs from emails and PDFs instead of selling.
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02Pricing and rebates that leak
Contract prices, vendor rebates and cost increases aren't applied consistently.
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03Stockouts and dead stock
Buyers reorder by gut and the warehouse fills with slow movers.
Agents that solve it04Collections that wait
Past-due accounts are chased only at month-end.
Agents that solve itWhat a first project looks like
From one process to one agent in production.
We start small on purpose: one Wholesale Distribution process, one business metric, one go/no-go decision. You only expand when the numbers say so.
Week 045-minute working session
We review your processes and pick the one with the clearest payback.
Weeks 1–4Discovery
Real workflow, rules, systems access, the success metric and the kill criterion, agreed in writing.
Weeks 5–10First agent live
Shadow mode, then supervised production with your team approving exceptions.
Weeks 11–16Scale or stop
Expand to the next process if the metric moved. If it didn't, we stop.
Companies that trust Luby
Agents for Wholesale Distribution
Catalog agents, by department.
Revenue & Growth
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Prospecting & Enrichment Agent
Defines your ICP, finds new leads and enriches company and contact data to keep the top of the funnel full.
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Runs multichannel outreach cadences, handles replies and books meetings automatically.
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Runs deep, multi-source web research on your market, competitors and benchmarks.
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see the department →Control Tower & Delivery Exceptions Agent
Monitors shipments in transit, detects deviations before a delay turns into a complaint and triggers plan B with the customer informed.
Learn more →Route & Network Optimization Agent
Builds the day's routes around delivery windows, capacity and cost, and recalculates when orders change or a route stalls.
Learn more →Fleet Management & Telematics Agent
Reads telematics and maintenance history to anticipate vehicle downtime and improve fuel use and driving behavior.
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Demand Forecasting & Planning Agent (S&OP)
Combines history, seasonality and market signals to forecast demand and support your production, purchasing and capacity plan.
Learn more →Work Order & Crew Dispatch Agent
Triages, prioritizes and dispatches work orders to the right crew, tracks SLAs and reschedules exceptions automatically.
Learn more →Predictive Maintenance Agent
Reads sensor data and failure history to anticipate breakdowns, suggest the intervention window and open the maintenance order before downtime.
Learn more →People & HR
see the department →Driver Hours of Service Agent (FMCSA HOS)
Checks every driver's hours against FMCSA Hours of Service rules using ELD events, calculates overtime and detention time and alerts before violations become liability.
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Candidate Screening & Ranking Agent
Reads the resumes for a role, compares them with the agreed requirements and returns a justified ranking. The decision to advance stays with the recruiter.
Learn more →Employee Onboarding Agent
Walks new hires through their first days: paperwork, system access, required training and check-ins with the manager, without scattered emails.
Learn more →Employee Help Desk Agent
Answers questions about PTO, benefits, payroll and internal policy from official documents, and escalates to HR what needs judgment.
Learn more →Finance & Accounting
see the department →Freight Billing & POD Reconciliation Agent
Combines bills of lading, proofs of delivery and accessorials like detention and redelivery into accurate invoices per customer, and answers disputes with evidence to shorten time to cash.
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Collections & Accounts Receivable Agent
Runs the dunning sequence on the customer's preferred channel, negotiates within approved limits and hands anything outside policy to an analyst.
Learn more →Accounts Payable & Approvals Agent
Reads the invoice, runs a three-way match against PO and receipt, codes it and routes it to the right approver before the due date.
Learn more →Month-End Close & Reconciliation Agent
Runs the close checklist, reconciles accounts and banks, isolates differences and drafts the variance explanations for the controller to review.
Learn more →Procurement & Supply Chain
see the department →Carrier Procurement & Third-Party Fleet Agent
Vets carriers, compares cost by lane and splits loads between your fleet and third parties based on performance and valid paperwork.
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Sourcing, RFQ & Negotiation Agent
Turns a requisition into a structured RFQ, compares bids on a like-for-like basis and builds the decision matrix with price history.
Learn more →Supplier Onboarding & Risk Agent
Gathers supplier documentation (W-9, insurance, certifications) and history, flags financial and operational risk and keeps the vendor master current instead of frozen.
Learn more →Spend Analysis Agent
Classifies POs, invoices and GL entries into one category taxonomy, reveals duplicate suppliers and fragmented spend and shows where to negotiate; category strategy stays with procurement.
Learn more →Legal & Compliance
see the department →Carrier Compliance & Rate Confirmation Agent
Checks every load tender against the carrier's FMCSA authority, insurance and safety rating and the agreed rate confirmation before dispatch, avoiding claims, fines and payment disputes.
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Contract Review Agent
Compares incoming contracts with your standard clauses and highlights deviations, risks and negotiation points for the attorney to decide.
Learn more →Contract Lifecycle Agent
Keeps the contract repository alive: extracts terms, price escalators and obligations from every contract and alerts the owner before deadlines.
Learn more →Privacy & Data Rights Agent (CCPA)
Keeps your personal data inventory current, answers consumer data requests within legal deadlines (CCPA and state privacy laws) and flags processing without a stated purpose.
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The people who work with Luby speak for us.
“The way they understood our vision and turned it into a working product is truly impressive.”
Rafael Rjeille CordeiroCEO, Yangflow“Everyone is professional, agile and flexible. They are open to feedback and keep improving their process.”
Jason MeltzerCTO & Co-Founder, Papaya“Luby is an innovative company that is committed to its projects. I feel confident taking on the most challenging work with them as partners.”
Wilson Baraban FilhoCTO, Inter&CoWhy Luby
23 years of shipping software. A journey designed to remove risk.
Luby has taken more than 1,350 projects to production for companies in the US and Latin America. North American leadership in Miami, senior nearshore engineers whose working day overlaps yours. About Luby →
23+years in production software
1,350+projects delivered
220+engineers and product specialists
4.8/537 verified reviews on Clutch
ISO 27001 · 27701certified security and privacy
Before the build
Discovery with a written exit
Scope, success metric and kill criterion agreed in writing before any code. If the case doesn't hold up, you stop there.
Before it acts
Shadow mode first
The agent runs next to your team without touching anything. You compare its decisions with your people's before it goes live.
While it runs
Your people approve
Supervised by default: every high-impact action has an approver, an audit trail and a kill switch your business team controls.
Your environment
Your cloud, your data
Deployed in your cloud or an isolated environment, models under no-training terms. AWS and Google Cloud certified partner.
Talk to an AI architect
See where AI agents pay off first in your Wholesale Distribution business
Tell us a little about your company. An AI architect comes back with the three processes where agents would pay off fastest for you.
- 1A senior architect, not an SDR30 minutes with someone who has shipped agents to production.
- 2Your top 3 agent opportunitiesRanked by payback, with the systems and approvals each one needs.
- 3No commitmentYou keep the shortlist whether or not you work with Luby.
Thanks! A Luby AI architect will email you to set up the session, usually within one business day.
FAQ
AI agents in Wholesale Distribution: common questions
How are midsize Wholesale Distribution companies using AI agents?
The most common starting points are: order entry by hand; pricing and rebates that leak; stockouts and dead stock; collections that wait. Each one is handled by agents that run the routine work and escalate exceptions to a person.
Which systems do the agents work with in Wholesale Distribution?
Agents connect to the systems you already use, such as Epicor Prophet 21, Infor SX.e, NetSuite, Acumatica, through APIs or secure browser automation when there is no API. No rip-and-replace.
How long until the first agent is in production?
Luby's standard plan targets about 10 weeks: roughly 4 weeks of discovery and 6 weeks to put the first agent into supervised production, with the business metric tracked from day one. Systems access and the process chosen can move that date.
Will AI agents replace our team?
That's not how we design them. Agents take over repetitive steps and your people keep the decisions: by default Luby agents run at Level 3 (supervised), so exceptions and approvals always go to a person. In most midsize companies the effect is absorbing growth with the same team.
How is our data protected?
Luby is certified to ISO/IEC 27001 and ISO/IEC 27701. Agents run in your cloud or an isolated environment, with models under no-training terms.
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