At the loading dock, what actually came in is mostly a guess.
Logged by hand or handheld, if at all. The count is partial and there is no picture to back it up. When the question comes weeks later, the answer is memory.
A camera at the dock that reads every label and keeps the picture.
See it
A camera at the dock reads every label as material crosses, scanner-read or not, and shows you the floor in real time.
Prove it
Each read is paired with its photo and the exact time. The record is tamper-evident and built into the receive itself.
Find it
Search the archive by PO, SKU, door, or time and pull the picture in seconds.
A record you can stand behind: timestamped, searchable, and yours.
Built into the receive, not a binder you rebuild afterward.
When the chargeback letter or the customer audit lands, Flowtally hands you a tamper-proof, timestamped, image-backed record of every item that crossed your dock, with label compliance checked on every read. Evidence built into the receive itself, not a binder you rebuild afterward.
Disputes settle with data, not memory.
What evidence settles a shortage dispute? See the receiving-record guide
Flowtally runs parallel to your existing scanning workflow (fails open, changes nothing about how your team works) and shows you where the floor and the system disagree. Every item that crosses the dock is recorded, scanner-read or not, so your planner schedules against truth instead of hope.
Don't replace your scanners. Enhance them.
Not sure which symbologies you run? See the barcode & label cheat sheet
Your doors never stop moving, and most of what crosses them is seen once, by one person, in passing. Flowtally keeps watch at every covered door and checkpoint: every item, timestamped, with its picture. When the question comes, you answer with the record.
See what's coming through your doors. Defend your floor.
When a line stoppage traces back to inbound material, Flowtally gives you the upstream evidence: what arrived, when it arrived, what the label said, and the picture to prove it. Root-cause analysis starts with a record instead of a hunt.
If it crossed your dock, there's a record.
When growth adds doors, suppliers, and SKUs faster than the team can hand-scan, Flowtally's fixed cameras keep recording: every item that crosses a covered checkpoint, captured with its picture, whether anyone had a free hand or not. Coverage scales by adding a camera, not a headcount req.
Scale the dock without scaling the headcount.
Dock accuracy usually rides on who's working and how well they were trained. Flowtally captures every item the same way on every shift, so a new hire, a temp, or a holiday surge never becomes a gap in your record.
Consistent receiving, whoever's on shift.
For the teams that answer for what arrives.
3PLs
Graded on Perfect Order rate. A dock error is a penalty, and a customer relationship. Flowtally gives you the record to defend every door.
Plant managers
Mislabeled or misplaced material stops the line. Flowtally ensures label compliance and gives you hard upstream evidence: what arrived, when, and the picture.
The hardware finally caught up to the floor.
Commodity cameras and on-device processing now do what used to take specialized industrial scanners and a heavy integration project. Coverage that once meant a major capital build is far more attainable, fast to stand up and ready to cover your floor from day one.
Built by someone who's run the floor.
Brian Kelly spent 10+ years in manufacturing: plant management, plant operations, then Tesla, where he led multi-disciplinary engineering teams that built and scaled multiple computer-vision products. Technology only where it earns its place.
About Industrial NativeProve it on your own doors.
A paid, time-boxed pilot puts Flowtally on your dock and proves the record against your real receiving. Built to fit on your floor. By someone who's done it before.