Logistics & Supply Chain

Shipment Exception Agent

Finds the shipments that matter, not the ones that are merely late

Version 3Published Sep 2, 2026
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6 of 11 shipments are late, overdue or about to miss their promise, with $72.1K of goods involved.

11 shipments checked. 6 are flagged, worth $72.1K. The worst is 15 days past its promise.

Chase SH-7003 first. BlueFreight is the carrier with the most value flagged.

Why a shipment is late (customs, weather, address) is not in the data.

$72.1K
6/11
Shipments flagged
6
11
Goods value flagged
$72.1K
Longest delay (days)
15
Share flagged
55%

Why rows were flagged

6
  • Overdue, not delivered33%
  • Delivered late33%
  • Due within 2 days33%

Value flagged by Carrier

  • BlueFreight$39K
  • FastLane$18.5K
  • GlobeExpress$14.6K

Shipments to chase, largest value first

ItemCarrierValueDaysWhy
SH-7003BlueFreight$21.5K5Overdue, not delivered
SH-7007GlobeExpress$14.6K15Overdue, not delivered
SH-7002FastLane$8,8004Delivered late
SH-7008BlueFreight$6,3006Delivered late
SH-7011BlueFreight$11.2K0Due within 2 days
SH-7006FastLane$9,7001Due within 2 days

What to do this week

  • Contact the carrier on SH-7003 now and give the customer a firm date.
  • Review BlueFreight's performance: it has the most value flagged.
  • Warn customers on the shipments about to miss their promise before they ask.

Do

  • Tell the customer about a delay before they find out.

Don't

  • Don't count a shipment as fine until it shows as delivered.

How to improve

  • Add the customer promise date and penalty so the next report can price each delay.
  • Add the delay reason so the next report can group causes by carrier.

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Overview

A tracking dashboard tells you status. A logistics team does not need status — it needs to know which fifteen of nine hundred shipments will hurt, and to tell someone before the customer notices.

This agent reads your shipment data and ranks exceptions by consequence, not by lateness. A two-day slip on stock replenishment is noise; two hours on a time-critical delivery is not, and a dashboard sorted by delay shows them the same way.

For each exception it says what is known, what the carrier has actually committed to, and what follow-up would resolve it. It drafts the customer message where one is warranted — stating what happened and what you are doing, never inventing a new arrival date. A promised date nobody committed to is how one late delivery becomes a lost account.

Benefits

The real exceptions, first

Attention spent where a delay actually costs something.

Customers told before they ask

The difference between an apology and a complaint.

No promises you cannot keep

It will not invent a date to make a message sound better.

What it does

  • Ranks by consequence

    What a delay costs, not how long it is. A dashboard sorted by lateness hides the ones that matter.

  • Separates committed from estimated

    What the carrier actually committed to, and what is a projection. They are treated very differently.

  • Spots the silent shipment

    No scan for three days is often worse news than a reported delay, and no dashboard flags it.

  • Drafts the customer message

    What happened and what you are doing — with no invented arrival date.

  • Names the follow-up

    Which carrier, what to ask, what reference to quote.

  • Sends nothing

    Drafts for a person to send. It contacts no customer and no carrier.

What this changes

What this changes about your week

It takes over
Finding the fifteen shipments out of nine hundred that will actually hurt.
Done today by
A coordinator, every morning, in a tracking dashboard.
How often
Daily.
Typical manual effort
Triaging a day's exceptions properly is two hours.

Why Logistics & Supply Chain in particular. It ranks by consequence rather than lateness, and it will not invent a delivery date — a promise nobody made is how one late shipment becomes a lost account.

  • Runs unattended

    Started by you or by an event, and it finishes on its own. Nothing waits for someone to be at a desk.

  • The same standard every time

    The two-hundredth item is held to the bar the first one was. Consistency is the part people cannot sustain.

  • It cannot act on its own

    Shipment Exception Agent has no path to sending, spending or committing. That limit is why its output is safe to act on.

How it runs

This agent runs server-side through the PROMIVO runtime. Each run is logged step by step and every tool call is permission-checked before it executes.

  1. 1InputValidated against the agent input schema
  2. 2Modelclaude-sonnet-5 with automatic fallback
  3. 3Toolsextract_structured_data
  4. 4PermissionsRuns READ actions automatically; anything higher waits for approval
  5. 5OutputStructured result matching the output schema
  6. 6LoggingTokens, duration and every step recorded

Requirements

Integrations

No integrations required.

Before you start

  • Shipment records with promised dates
  • Tracking events, where available
  • Requires the All-Access plan or higher

Use cases

Morning exception review

Nine hundred shipments down to the fifteen that need action.

A late high-value order

What is known, what to ask the carrier, what to tell the customer.

Carrier performance

Which lanes and carriers generate the exceptions.

Pricing

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FAQ

Does it contact carriers or customers?

No. It drafts, ranks and explains. Sending on your behalf means committing your business to something, which stays with a person.

Will it estimate a new delivery date?

Only where the carrier has given one, and it will say that is the carrier's estimate. It will not produce a date of its own — an invented date is how one late delivery becomes a lost account.

What data does it need?

Whatever you have: shipment records, tracking events, promised dates. It works with partial data and says what it could not assess.

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