April 8, 2025
Zenport Inc. (Headquarters: Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, CEO: Fumiyuki Ota) has released a new action button feature for “ZenGrid,” the customizable table view in “ZENPORT,” a data hub that comprehensively manages all global supply chain data.
This feature was developed based on customer feedback, is already available to all users, and will serve as the foundation for future AI agent functionality.
Excel Remains the Standard for Data Sharing Between Stakeholders
In global supply chains involving numerous stakeholders—including importers, exporters, and multiple logistics companies—Excel spreadsheets remain the most commonly used method for data sharing across organizations and borders.
In global supply chains, importers create order information, exporters create shipment information, and logistics companies create transportation information. However, EDI systems are rarely fully implemented across the mesh-like network of stakeholders, leaving manual processes and Excel spreadsheets to connect these disparate information sources.
One-Step Operations Achieved with Action Buttons
Many of ZENPORT’s customers have expressed their desire to replace their existing Excel spreadsheets. As part of the “Beyond Excel” project that aims to exceed Excel’s usability, we have significantly improved the intuitiveness and operability of our user interface.
The new “Action Button Feature” operates directly on ZENPORT’s customizable table view “ZenGrid” screen, allowing users to perform key operations without having to switch to the map screen.
This feature delivers:
- Significantly reduced operational steps
- Time savings for shipment and order management
- Reduced user operational burden
These improvements contribute to the overall efficiency of the entire supply chain operation.
User-Centered Feature Development Based on “Human in the Loop” Philosophy
This feature was developed based on actual user feedback, following ZENPORT’s “Human in the Loop” philosophy, which emphasizes the cooperation between technology and humans to improve the quality of customers’ operations and management.
This enhancement is a step toward eliminating small daily operational stresses and providing an environment where all stakeholders involved in the supply chain can concentrate on more essential tasks.
ZENPORT will continue to listen sincerely to customer voices and develop features that respond to ongoing field needs, striving to provide the most up-to-date and optimal operational experience.
ZENPORT: Towards a World Where Cognitive Diversity Creates Prosperity and Innovation
ZENPORT aims to create a world where data, people, and economies across the globe are seamlessly connected, and where prosperity and innovation are sustained through the utilization of cognitive diversity.
With this philosophy, ZENPORT has built an ecosystem where all stakeholders can make optimal decisions based on cross-organizational data. This is achieved through its proprietary integrated architecture “ZenConnect” at its core, which organically links data from all processes and organizations, along with the standard data integration platform “ZenSync” and the personalized business experience UI “ZenGrid.”
“ZenGrid” is our customizable table view with functionality that surpasses Excel spreadsheets and serves as the core component of our “Beyond Excel” project. While maintaining the intuitive operation of Excel, it provides advanced features necessary for global supply chain management, significantly improving user operational efficiency.
Company Overview
- Company Name: Zenport Inc.
- Location: 1-19-9-303 Sendagaya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
- Representative: Fumiyuki Ota, CEO
- Vision: “Toward a world where our differences come alive.”
- Mission: “Connecting data beyond organizations and processes. Accelerating business.”
For inquiries regarding this release:
Zenport Inc. PR Department
https://zenport.io/contact/
Zenport Inc. (Headquarters: Shibuya, Tokyo; CEO: Fumiyuki Ota) operates “ZENPORT,” a data hub that collectively manages all data across global supply chains.
The company has recently completed verification of a process that semi-automates data mapping and data integration programming by utilizing generative AI technology for building customized integration programs for various source data on their data integration platform “ZenSync.”
Agile Data Integration Transforms Global Supply Chains
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, global supply chain operations have experienced significant changes, and further major changes are anticipated due to policy developments such as the tariff policies of the second Trump administration.
In this context, comprehensive cross-location data management—both internally and externally—has become essential for inventory management and improving operational productivity globally. Meanwhile, the renewal and updating of core systems that many companies are undertaking often create barriers to building new data integrations.
Therefore, agile and flexible data integration construction and updates have become an imperative of our times.
Excel Connecting Systems and Operations
In practical terms, global supply chains still require numerous Excel files. This is because data integration between exporters, importers, logistics companies, and even internal departments such as production management, logistics management, and accounting management remains challenging. In reality, operations often involve attaching Excel files to emails or transcribing received PDFs into Excel to process orders and logistics tasks, and then entering the data into core systems upon completion.
By applying data integration more broadly and agilely, it is possible to significantly improve both management and operational quality.
Introduction of Generative AI Technology for Building Customized Data Integration
Until now, ZENPORT has created mapping definition documents (data sheet conversions) manually based on data extracted from customers’ core systems, and then engineers wrote data integration programs based on these definition documents to build customized data integration solutions.
This time, by structuring the knowledge of customization in data integration cultivated through projects with many enterprise clients, and by using Cursor, a generative AI editor, ZENPORT has successfully semi-automated the process from mapping to data integration program generation.
Although these data integration programs are customized for each data source, they are centrally managed under the standard workflow of ZENPORT’s standard data integration platform “ZenSync.”
Through this capability, ZENPORT will contribute to faster cycles of data integration construction for customers, improving their operational productivity and strategic execution speed through agile data integration.
Feature Development Based on the “Human in the Loop” Concept
Like other initiatives, this effort embodies ZENPORT’s philosophy aimed at enhancing value through collaboration between technology and humans, based on the “Human in the Loop” concept.
By incorporating workflows where humans perform verification within the overall process, ZENPORT realizes accurate data structuring through collaboration between AI and humans in integrating with diverse customers and data sources.
About ZENPORT: Towards a World Where Cognitive Diversity Creates Richness and Innovation
ZENPORT aims to realize a world where global data, people, and economies are seamlessly connected, and where richness and innovation are sustained through the utilization of cognitive diversity.
Based on this philosophy, ZENPORT has built an ecosystem that enables all stakeholders to make optimal decisions based on cross-organizational data. This is achieved through the core integrated architecture “ZenConnect,” which organically links data across all processes and organizations, along with the standard data integration platform “ZenSync” and the UI (screen function) “ZenGrid” that provides personalized business experiences.
“ZenGrid” is a list sheet screen with usability and functionality that exceeds Excel and is positioned as the core of the company’s “Beyond Excel” project. While maintaining the intuitive nature of Excel operations, it provides advanced functions necessary for global supply chain management, significantly improving user operational efficiency.
Company Profile
Company Name: Zenport Inc.
Location: 1-19-9-303 Sendagaya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
Representative: CEO Fumiyuki Ota
Vision: “Towards a world where our differences come alive.”
Mission: “Connecting data beyond organizations and processes. Accelerating business.”
For inquiries regarding this press release:
Zenport Inc. Public Relations Department
https://zenport.io/contact/
Zenport Inc. (Headquarters: Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, CEO: Fumiyuki Ota) is releasing “SmartGrid,” a bulk data entry assistance feature, as a new function of “ZENPORT,” the data hub that manages all global supply chain data in one place.
This feature has been developed through individual projects with multiple leading distribution and manufacturing companies representing the industry, with the initial version scheduled for release in March 2025.
About ZENPORT: Toward a World Where Cognitive Diversity Creates Richness and Innovation
ZENPORT aims to realize a world where data, people, and economies across the globe are seamlessly connected, and where richness and innovation are sustained through the utilization of cognitive diversity.
Under this philosophy, with the proprietary integrated architecture “ZenConnect” at its core, ZENPORT organically links data from all processes and organizations. Furthermore, through the standard data integration platform “ZenSync” and the personalized business experience UI (screen function) “ZenGrid,” it builds an ecosystem where all stakeholders can make optimal decisions based on cross-organizational data.
Increasing Challenges of Excel Ledgers in PSI (Production-Sales-Inventory) Management
As global supply chains become increasingly complex, the importance of data integration across organizations and borders is rapidly growing. However, in global supply chain operations, numerous Excel ledgers are being used, creating operational burdens and management bottlenecks.
Particularly in PSI (Production-Sales-Inventory) management, manual data transcription into Excel ledgers plays a crucial role. These Excel ledgers constitute a critical part of PSI management, where data spanning processes such as ordering, production, shipping, and transportation is collected from various stakeholders to manage delivery schedules and transportation for each product.
This transcription work, which forms the core of PSI management, remains one of the most labor-intensive tasks in global supply chain management, despite requiring high accuracy under time constraints. Currently, awareness of these challenges has been growing across industries among many leading companies, especially following the rapid changes in the global supply chain environment since the COVID-19 pandemic.
As the scale of our support projects grows, we are developing this feature as part of building an infrastructure to contribute to our customers’ further business growth and to automate large-scale data integration through the utilization of generative AI.
Achieving Efficiency Beyond Excel Through Data Utilization
“SmartGrid” is a bulk data entry screen that operates on “ZenGrid,” the UI of ZENPORT.
By utilizing data connected to ZENPORT, it supports the transcription of shipping document data, such as INVOICE information, into “ZenGrid,” achieving efficiency that surpasses Excel when registering multiple shipping information entries.
“Management Foundation” in Generative AI Implementation
ZENPORT will implement generative AI solutions based on the concept of “Human in the loop” (a mechanism where humans perform final verification of AI judgments).
SmartGrid functions as a management foundation where humans act as “gatekeepers” to verify and make decisions, connecting external data with core systems during the automation of “normalizing unstructured data” such as PDFs.
The current phase targets manually entered data, but the next phase will also display data read by AI-OCR. It will evolve as a UI (screen function) for customer data verification and finalization, and as a hub connecting to various internal and external data sources and workflows.
Current Release: Semi-automation of INVOICE transcription using SmartGrid Next Phase: AI-OCR integration with SmartGrid (planned for around May-July 2025) Beyond Next Phase: Automation of preceding and subsequent processes (details to be announced later)
Providing Standard Functions with Customized Support
While SmartGrid is part of ZENPORT’s standard functions, it accommodates diverse use cases through the development and enhancement of standard functions tailored to individual customer use cases.
- Development costs will be quoted individually
Company Overview
Company Name: ZENPORT Inc.
Location: Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
Representative: CEO Fumiyuki Ota
Vision: “Embrace differences to make a difference”
Mission: “Be the common language for the global supply chain”