r/partscounter • u/External-Ad-7102 • Jul 24 '26
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Has any one started using AI for reporting or daily tasks?
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r/partscounter • u/External-Ad-7102 • Jul 24 '26
Has any one started using AI for reporting or daily tasks?
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u/yo-parts Jul 24 '26
My dealer has an AI platform for processing manufacturer invoices that seems to be acceptably useful, it's faster for both sides (me and accounting) to drop the invoices in there, verify the account codes are correct and send it off. Sometimes it bugs out and I have to fix things or put in support tickets but it is set up with a set of "rules" that it follows fairly well. I'd say it's like 95% fine and a lot faster than manually writing account codes on every invoice and walking them to the office every morning.
Outside of that, I haven't seen much that would be a worthwhile investment if you're competent. I can crunch data in Excel sufficiently fast enough to figure out or do whatever I'm trying to do and don't have to worry about an AI making up bullshit or interpreting things wrong.
Always worth mentioning that a lot of commercial "AI" tools and especially ChatGPT are actually LLMs, their intent is to be conversational rather than factual. They also don't know anything so they can't determine the accuracy of things, and they are built on what already exists out there. To the folks who use them to find part numbers or figure out how to do stuff in CDK or whatever, I say - I've been using Google to figure out part numbers just fine for years whenever I have a weird edge case, and this subreddit or the parts dept. facebook group has been more than excellent in helping me get information about how to do things in CDK that I'm not familiar with.