Bill of Lading - Document Skill - ABBYY Documentation

The Bill of Lading skill extracts data from bills of lading (BoL) — the legal document a carrier issues to the shipper to confirm goods have been received as described, with the carrier undertaking to deliver them to the consignee. The BoL accompanies the shipped goods along the entire freight route, regardless of transport mode. A bill of lading contains all shipping-related information about the following: shipper, consignee, goods being shipped (for example, weight, size, and type), origin and destination of shipments, as well as shipping agreement terms. Various bill of lading types are used in international trade depending on the following: consignee type (named, order, bearer), shipping means (liner, charter, straight, through), additional descriptions of the goods (clean, dirty), and shipping period (on-board, received-for-shipment). The Bill of Lading skill is a production skill. It has been fully trained on a large document set and provides high accuracy of data identification and extraction. The skill is ready to be used in production and does not require further training on your specific documents. Accuracy and straight-through processing (STP) rates can be further optimized in production through continuous learning from human-in-the-loop feedback.

Supported Languages

English
German

Extracted Fields

Asterisk (*) indicates a required field or field group. Values cannot be empty.

Field	Description
BoL Number*	Bill of lading number.
BoL Date	The date on which the bill of lading was made.
PO Number	The purchase order number.
Sales Order Number	The sales order number.
Shipment ID	The shipment identifier.
Shipment Date	The date of the shipment.
Pro Number	A shipment identifier assigned by the carrier. This identifier together with the SCAC code may be used to track the shipment.
Vehicle Number	The number of the transport vehicle or carriage.
Seal Number	The seal number.
Terms	The freight payment terms. Specifies which party is liable for paying the freight bill. Can have one of the following values: Prepaid. The transport expenses are charged to the shipper Collect. The transport expenses are charged to the consignee Third Party. The transport expenses are charged to a third party.
NMFC Code	National Motor Freight Classification shipment identifier. Applies to less-than-truckload shipping.
Class	National Motor Freight Classification shipment class. Applies to less-than-truckload shipping.
Port of Discharge	The destination of the shipment. The location where the shipment is handed over to the consignee.
Port of Loading	The origin of the shipment. The location where the shipment is handed over to the carrier.
Special Instructions	Special handling instructions for the carrier regarding the shipment.
Number of Packages	The total number of packages.
Package Type	The package type. The value of this field can either be a name in full (such as “Palett”) or a code (such as PLT).
Hazardous Material	Indicates whether the shipment contains any items classified as hazardous. If this field is checked, the shipment must conform to the Hazardous Material requirements of the U.S. Department of Transportation.
Total Weight Nonmetric	The total weight of the shipment in non-metric units of measurement. When no unit of measurement is specified, the total weight is assumed to be in non-metric units and this field is used by default.
Total Weight UoM Nonmetric	The non-metric unit of measurement (for example, pounds or ounces) used for the total the weight of the shipment indicated in the Total Weight Nonmetric field.
Total Weight Metric	The total weight of the shipment in metric units of measurement.
Total Weight UoM Metric	The metric unit of measurement (for example, tons, kilograms, or grams) used for the total weight of the shipment indicated in the Total Weight Metric field.

Shipper

Field	Description
Name	Information about the shipper.
Address	Information about the shipper.

Carrier

Field	Description
Name	The name of the carrier.
SCAC Code	An SCAC (Standard Carrier Alpha Code) code is used to identify transport companies.

Consignee

Field	Description
Name	Consignee information.
Customer ID	Consignee information.
Address	Consignee information.

Bill to

Field	Description
Name	Information about the organization or business unit responsible for paying the freight fees (if different from both the shipper and the consignee).
Address	Information about the organization or business unit responsible for paying the freight fees (if different from both the shipper and the consignee).

Key Fields

Shipper Name
Consignee Name
BoL Number
BoL Date
Pro Number

Validation Rules

Rule	Description
Check Checkmarks	Defines the field value using the possible values for Terms/Prepaid, Terms/Collect, Terms/ThirdParty (if checked on the bill), as well as the following two additional values: Terms/PrepaidWordOrDefault if the Prepaid payment type is set by default or specified in the bill of lading as a word instead of a checkmark, Terms/CollectWordOrDefault if the Collect payment type is set by default or specified in the bill of lading as a word instead of a checkmark.

​Supported Languages

​Extracted Fields

​Shipper

​Carrier

​Consignee

​Bill to

​Key Fields

​Validation Rules

Supported Languages

Extracted Fields

Shipper

Carrier

Consignee

Bill to

Key Fields

Validation Rules