IProcessor for GMD Stores: From Vendor Invoice to Store Shelf in One Web App
Part 1 of 2. This post introduces the product and walks through the web application. Part 2 covers the invoice-parsing engine, the technology stack and the CI/CD pipeline. What is IProcessor? IProcessor is an internal operations platform built for GMD Stores, a multi-store retail business that buys from dozens of import vendors and ships goods through its own warehouse. Every week the business receives a flood of vendor invoices as PDF attachments, has to reconcile them against purchase orders, receive the goods, split them by store, verify pick-and-pack, and account for margins. Before IProcessor, most of this was manual data entry and spreadsheets. IProcessor turns it into a single flow: A vendor emails an invoice PDF to a shared mailbox. A background service picks it up, identifies the vendor, extracts every line item and saves it to the database. No human touches it. Buyers and accounting review and approve the invoice in the web app. Warehouse staff receiv...