GrubMarket has introduced an AI agent that prepares food distributors’ purchase orders from supplier documents, targeting manual entry that the company says can delay cost and inventory records.
The tool adds purchasing to AI Orders, a GrubMarket product that previously handled orders placed by distributors’ customers. Staff can review each draft before choosing to create the order in their enterprise resource planning (ERP) system.
The announcement was issued Nov. 10 at 8:08 a.m. ET. GrubMarket says the AI Orders - Purchase Order Agent accepts vendor invoices and receipts as photos, PDFs, spreadsheets or plain-language text. It identifies vendors, products, quantities, units and costs, then matches products to the distributor’s catalog.
Purchasing information can arrive by email, through the Distributor Go mobile app or through the AI Orders Supplier Portal. GrubMarket says the agent integrates with WholesaleWare. The company says it can also be integrated with Thyme Software, Granite State Software and WaudWare PICS through its integration platform.
GrubMarket introduced AI Orders in June 2024 for incoming customer orders. It expanded the product in August 2025 to process customer-order files in PDF, Excel and CSV formats. The new agent addresses purchases that distributors make from vendors.
Genevieve Wang, GrubMarket’s chief software product officer, said the traditionally manual process makes it difficult for many distributors to record purchases promptly. According to the company, delayed entries can leave purchasing, sales and warehouse teams without current cost and inventory information, complicating pricing and stock decisions.
GrubMarket presented the agent as a way to update those records sooner. The announcement provided no pricing, accuracy results, customer results or rollout schedule. It did not quantify the savings it expects distributors to achieve.
