Purpose
1.2. Automate data extraction from sales, inventory, compliance, and supply chain systems.
1.3. Automater compiles, visualizes, and distributes KPI metrics automatically to decision-makers.
1.4. Automation eliminates manual reporting, ensuring compliance and real-time business health visibility.
1.5. Enables management to act on automatable trends, bottlenecks, and compliance risks proactively.
Trigger Conditions
2.2. Automating when new sales/orders/inventory movements occur.
2.3. Threshold automator (e.g., inventory below X triggers KPI update).
2.4. Manual automatable request by management for ad-hoc KPI updates.
Platform Variants
3.1. Salesforce
• Feature/Setting: Reports & Dashboards API; automate report scheduling and delivery to emails.
3.2. Microsoft Power BI
• Feature/Setting: Scheduled refresh and Alerts API; automates data update and KPI alert notifications.
3.3. Google Sheets
• Feature/Setting: Sheets API – automate KPI aggregation, with scheduled export via Google Drive/Email.
3.4. Slack
• Feature/Setting: Incoming Webhooks; automate sending summary KPIs to management channels.
3.5. Microsoft Teams
• Feature/Setting: Automated webhook connectors; post KPI updates in Teams channels.
3.6. SendGrid
• Feature/Setting: API-driven email automation with dynamic templates for KPI summaries.
3.7. Twilio SMS
• Feature/Setting: Programmable SMS API for automated text notification of critical KPI changes.
3.8. HubSpot
• Feature/Setting: Reports API automation for management scheduled updates.
3.9. Tableau
• Feature/Setting: REST API for automate dashboard publishing and user alerts.
3.10. Zoho Analytics
• Feature/Setting: Automated report scheduling with Zoho Analytics Reports API.
3.11. QuickBooks
• Feature/Setting: Reports API; automate financial KPI extractions.
3.12. Xero
• Feature/Setting: Reports endpoint; automated financial and compliance KPI updates.
3.13. Dropbox
• Feature/Setting: Automates KPI report file sync/distribution via Dropbox API.
3.14. SharePoint
• Feature/Setting: Automating scheduled uploads of KPI reports to SharePoint libraries.
3.15. Asana
• Feature/Setting: Asana API to post KPI updates as tasks/comments for management.
3.16. Monday.com
• Feature/Setting: Automate Pulse/Item update automation for KPI boards.
3.17. Trello
• Feature/Setting: Card automation with Power-Ups/Webhook for KPI cards and notifications.
3.18. AWS Lambda
• Feature/Setting: Serverless automation for compiling data from APIs and pushing KPI updates.
3.19. Zapier
• Feature/Setting: Multi-app workflow automator for integrating wholesale ERP, sheets, and notification.
3.20. Mailgun
• Feature/Setting: Email Reports API; automate customizable management KPI notification.
3.21. Airtable
• Feature/Setting: Airtable API for automated data extraction and scheduled summary emails to management.
3.22. Notion
• Feature/Setting: Automated database updates and notification using Notion API.
3.23. Google Data Studio
• Feature/Setting: Automated report sharing; scheduled email delivery to predefined user list.
Benefits
4.2. Automating ensures timely KPI visibility for rapid, data-driven decisions.
4.3. Automate compliance monitoring, avoiding regulatory and contract breaches.
4.4. Automator integrates diverse data sources for holistic management insights.
4.5. Automation delivers customizable, granular updates based on management needs and schedule.