Corporate Performance & ReportingPurpose
1.2. Automate collection and aggregation of regional and national competitor prices.
1.3. Create automated alerts for price changes, supply status, and emerging market shifts.
1.4. Automatedly benchmark corporate pricing strategy versus competitors.
1.5. Drive automation of actionable insights for executive reporting and corporate decision-making.
1.6. Enable automated identification of supply chain constraints or pricing anomalies.
1.7. Automate integration of web-scraped, partner-supplied, or API-based competitor data feeds.
Trigger Conditions
2.2. Automate on data change detection from competitor websites or APIs.
2.3. Automate on upload of new competitor reports or market analyses.
2.4. Trigger automation by user request for custom price comparisons.
2.5. Automate trigger on outlier pricing or abnormal supply shifts.
Platform Variants
• Automated Feature: Send SMS price/supply alerts.
• Setting: Configure Message API to automatically notify stakeholders on data changes.
3.2. SendGrid
• Automated Feature: Email notification automation of price alerts.
• Setting: Use automated Email API with dynamic fields populated from competitor datasets.
3.3. Google Sheets
• Automated Feature: Real-time data logging/aggregation automation.
• Setting: Automate Sheets API to write incoming competitor data and trigger alerts on formula change.
3.4. Slack
• Automated Feature: Channel-based automated performance alerting.
• Setting: Integrate Slack Webhook to automatically push supply/pricing changes.
3.5. Microsoft Teams
• Automated Feature: Automated notifications in Teams channels.
• Setting: Use Teams API for auto-posting competitor update messages.
3.6. Salesforce
• Automated Feature: Automated logging of competitor data into CRM records.
• Setting: Use REST API to push new competitor insights for sales review.
3.7. Tableau
• Automated Feature: Automated dashboard updates.
• Setting: Connect competitor data feed to Tableau Server Extract API for automated refresh.
3.8. Power BI
• Automated Feature: Automated competitor data visualization.
• Setting: Configure dataset API for auto-refresh of market reports.
3.9. AWS Lambda
• Automated Feature: Serverless competitor data transformation.
• Setting: Lambda triggers on data arrival to process & forward to analytics.
3.10. Google Cloud Functions
• Automated Feature: Automate data ingestion/workflow steps.
• Setting: Function triggers to parse/API-push data from competitor sources.
3.11. Zapier
• Automated Feature: Cross-app competitor alert automation.
• Setting: Automate Zap to pipe price changes to email, Slack, Sheets, etc.
3.12. Integromat (now Make)
• Automated Feature: Workflow automation of competitor comparisons.
• Setting: Automate multi-app scenario with HTTP, Webhook, alert modules.
3.13. Notion
• Automated Feature: Auto-update databases with market alerts.
• Setting: Notion API auto-logs new competitor entries and updates.
3.14. Monday.com
• Automated Feature: Automated task creation for pricing reviews.
• Setting: API automator for incoming price change triggers new items/boards.
3.15. HubSpot
• Automated Feature: CRM alerting automation for competitor trends.
• Setting: Workflow automation updates or emails on price/supply events.
3.16. Oracle Cloud
• Automated Feature: ETL automation from competitor data into analytics.
• Setting: Use automated Data Integrator APIs for data ingest.
3.17. SAP Cloud Platform
• Automated Feature: Automated supply/pricing integration into corporate dashboards.
• Setting: Business API for auto-loading new competitor data.
3.18. Dropbox
• Automated Feature: Automated receipt of competitor files/reports.
• Setting: File trigger automation moves new documents to analysis.
3.19. Web Scraping Tools (e.g. ParseHub)
• Automated Feature: Scheduled scrape of competitor supply sites.
• Setting: Setup recurring scraping project, auto-API feed output.
3.20. Azure Logic Apps
• Automated Feature: Automated enterprise grade flow for price monitoring.
• Setting: Flow trigger on new data or mail, automates to update dashboard/alerts.
Benefits
4.2. Reduces manual effort—enabling automators to focus on high-impact analysis.
4.3. Automated system guarantees real-time awareness of critical market shifts.
4.4. Improves accuracy and reliability of competitor benchmarking with automation.
4.5. Scalability—automate multiple regions and product lines without manual overhead.
4.6. Enables automated risk detection and early alerts for supply chain managers.
4.7. Enhances corporate performance reporting through automated, timely data.
4.8. Empowers teams to act quickly with automated notifications and updates.