Anonymized under-retail business
Door-to-door reconciliation.
Datawhale
Retail
Explicit FDE engagement
Standard case | Useful reference with remaining gaps
Evidence level A
Deployed / validating
A
Evidence level
Datawhale FDE Case 100 | No. 10: From manual checks to intelligent reconciliation for offline retail
Evidence level measures whether a source can be located and reviewed; it does not mean vendor-reported claims were independently audited.
Standard case | Useful reference with remaining gaps
8 / 12
Business context1 / 2
Transformation workflow1 / 2
Technical workflow2 / 2
Human roles & governance1 / 2
Measured outcomes1 / 2
Source traceability2 / 2
Remaining gaps: Business context, Transformation workflow, Human roles & governance, Measured outcomes
Business problem
Multiple shops, multiple payment channels and multi-system bills require manual checking by finance staff.
Solution
Uniform billing, automatic matching of transactions and the assignment of discrepancies and anomalies to finance staff.
Technical architecture & production workflow
Step 01
Invoices/documentation/billing/operational materials
→
Step 02
OCR/ field extraction + business classification
→
Step 03
LLM/rules judge business types and risks
→
Step 04
Determination matching/verification/reconciliation
→
Step 05
RPA/API in ERP/OA/Financial System
→
Step 06
An anomaly, a manual review, a rewriting of the results.
Key technology & infrastructure components
OCR/Info extractionLLMRules EngineRPA/APIERP/OAHuman-in-the-loop
Human roles & accountability
The finance staff only handle unmatched, unusual and high-risk transactions.
FDE delivery actions
- Shawowing finance, decomposition of “Looking at the material-judgment-checking-checking” into atomic action.
- Distinguishing semantic judgement, mechanical execution and responsibility clearance of three types of tasks
- Make it visible and create an unusual type of old employee's covert audit rules.
- Priority is given to the existing ERP/OA without re-engineering of the system
- Set conditions for manual upgrades such as low confidence, monetary thresholds, rule conflicts, etc.
Reusable delivery patterns
- AI is responsible for judging, RPA/API is responsible for determinative enforcement, and people are responsible.
- Automate the standard and concentrate on the anomalies.
- The core of the finance category projects is not chatting, but auditable programming
Business outcomes & delivery results
The objective was to move from a paper-by-written check to an anomaly; public information was not disclosed as a unified ROI.
Evidence boundaries & verification notes
- Public information confirming business processes; technical components are abstract architecture based on public description
- The source can be directly located in the case; the value remains disclosed by the source and does not represent an independent audit.