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Choosing the right AI order automation vendor can be the difference between reps moving orders in minutes—or staying buried in manual entry. Most demos look great on pre-approved sample data. The criteria you use to evaluate determines whether a vendor holds up on real orders once you go live. Here are four worth adding to your process.

A polished demo on clean sample data tells you one thing: they know how to demo. But that tells you nothing about whether they can handle your raw inputs, your ERP, or your edge cases. Download the guide and find out what to look for instead.

You're about to give an AI vendor access to your ERP. Your customer data, your pricing, your order history. Do you know where the data is stored? Who can access it? And what happens if they get breached? Most distributors don't ask these questions until after they've signed. This guide does.

Most AI demos look great on staged inputs. The truth shows up when you run real orders—messy POs, missing fields, shorthand, or PDFs. The Distributor’s Guide to AI Vendor Evaluation gives you four criteria to pressure-test any vendor before you sign.

Vendor evaluations tend to focus on integrations, pricing, and implementation timelines. Those matter. But they're not the whole picture. This guide gives you the deeper criteria that separate platforms that scale from platforms that stall.

Choosing an AI vendor is one of the most consequential decisions your operation will make this year. Are you evaluating on demo quality? That's the wrong test. This guide tells you what to look for instead. This guide tells you what to look for instead.