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PDFs in, keystrokes out
Purchase orders, ASNs and invoices arrive as files and mail. Someone retypes them. The error lives in the gap.
Melbourne · Founder-led · Supply chain & ERP
The hours hide between the PDF and the posting. I close that gap.
Marr Advisory builds practical automations for planning, procurement and logistics — including agents that read documents, reason about exceptions, and write into SAP and the tools you already run. You work with Phil Marr. Not a bench of juniors.
Operator years18+ in FMCG & building products
Track recordNational 3PL, IBP, S/4HANA
How you buyPhil. Direct.
The work
Supply chains still run on workarounds.
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Exceptions are the job
Planners and 3PL leads spend the day chasing the 8% that did not match — not the plan.
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Tools without an owner
Copilot, IBP, a warehouse portal. None of them close the loop unless someone designs the next action.
Offer
Three ways in. Same standard.
2–4 weeks
Readiness assessment
Map the real process, the data, and the ERP constraints. Leave with a sequenced 90-day backlog and a yes/no on automation.
- — Process and exception map
- — SAP / ERP feasibility
- — ROI-ordered roadmap
From AUD $12,500
Flagship · 8–16 weeks
Agentic process automation
Design and deploy a small agent crew on one workflow — document in, validation, posting, exception queue. Humans only on the low-confidence cases.
Signature pattern: PDF / email PO → extract → match → SAP PO / GR / invoice, with an audit trail.
Projects from AUD $45,000
Retainer
Managed agents
Keep what we shipped honest. New document types, accuracy reviews, adjacent processes when the first one is boring in a good way.
AUD $7,500 – $18,000 / month
Method
Short loops. Handover that works.
01Sit in the work
I watch the actual clicks — not the SOP. Procurement, planning, warehouse, customer service.
02Pick one loop
One document type, one posting, one exception queue. Proof before a programme.
03Build with gates
Human-in-the-loop on money and master data. Logs you can audit. No screen scraping as the plan.
04Leave it owned
Your team can run it. I stay if a retainer earns its keep — not as a hostage.
Worked pattern — not a client case study
What “PO to posting” looks like
This is the method Marr Advisory sells. It is not a billed logo. When a paid engagement exists, it will be named properly.
Inbound PDF / email→
Extract & validate→
Three-way match→
SAP PO / GR / invoice→
Exception queue
About
Eighteen years inside the operation. Now I automate the parts that should never have been heroic.
I’m Phillip Marr. I have led national planning, inventory and 3PL seats in building products and dairy — including client-side SAP IBP and S/4HANA, and a formal AI Ambassador brief.
Employment results stay labelled as employment: on-time 82% to 97% for a major customer; a linear-programming network save; national 3PL spend in the nine figures. Marr Advisory does not rent those as client case studies.
I am building the firm while still an operator. That is a feature: the work has to survive a real planning week.
FAQ
Straight answers before you book.
Do I need SAP?
SAP is the native path. The same pattern works on other ERPs if there is a clean API or posting layer. If the only option is screen scraping, I will say so and we probably should not start.
Will you take dairy or 3PL work while I’m at my current employer?
Not if it conflicts with the employment contract. Marr Advisory is being built on generic, non-conflicting work and public artefacts first. If you are a dairy operator, we talk after that constraint lifts — or with written consent.
Who does the work?
Phil. Year one is founder-led. Contractors only when the architecture is already decided.
Is there a paid case study I can read?
Not yet. There is a method, an operator track record, and a working personal automation lab. When a client exists, the site will say so. Until then I will not invent one.
Contact
Tell me the process. I’ll tell you if I can help.
Twenty-five minutes. No slide theatre. If it is not a fit, you will hear that in the first call.