Ingredient costing updates based on market prices

Purpose

 1.1. Enable automatic updates of ingredient costs using real-time market price feeds to ensure accurate recipe costings and menu pricing.
 1.2. Minimize manual entry, reduce errors in cost calculations, and maintain up-to-date profit margin analysis for Afghan restaurant operations.
 1.3. Facilitate dynamic supplier negotiation based on current market rates and streamline procurement planning.

Trigger Conditions

 2.1. Scheduled market price data pulls (e.g., daily or weekly).
 2.2. Supplier price list updates via email, API, or file drop.
 2.3. Manual override/review request by inventory manager.
 2.4. Receipt of price change alert from third-party data source.

Platform Variants

 3.1. Zapier
  3.1.1. Feature/Setting: Webhooks + Formatter; configure market data API trigger and map to inventory app fields.
 3.2. Make
  3.2.1. Feature/Setting: HTTP module to fetch price data, Google Sheets update module for batch cost sync.
 3.3. Microsoft Power Automate
  3.3.1. Feature/Setting: Scheduled flows; HTTP action to get commodity prices and update Dynamics 365 inventory.
 3.4. AWS Lambda
  3.4.1. Feature/Setting: Scheduled trigger; fetch market price and invoke database update API.
 3.5. Google Apps Script
  3.5.1. Feature/Setting: URLFetchApp to get prices, update Sheets with new costs automatically.
 3.6. Oracle Integration
  3.6.1. Feature/Setting: REST adapter to pull supplier prices, invoke ERP integration flow.
 3.7. SAP Cloud Platform
  3.7.1. Feature/Setting: API Management; automate data flow from market source to S/4HANA procurement.
 3.8. Monday.com
  3.8.1. Feature/Setting: Integrations; set up API polling integration for item price column auto-update.
 3.9. Airtable
  3.9.1. Feature/Setting: Scripting automation; fetch commodity API and update ingredient cost field.
 3.10. NetSuite
  3.10.1. Feature/Setting: SuiteScript or RESTlet to sync external pricing into ingredient records.
 3.11. QuickBooks API
  3.11.1. Feature/Setting: Batch item update endpoint for automatic cost adjustments.
 3.12. Xero
  3.12.1. Feature/Setting: Items API update for ingredient costs, triggered by webhook input.
 3.13. Slack
  3.13.1. Feature/Setting: Scheduled message with cost update summary for review.
 3.14. Trello
  3.14.1. Feature/Setting: Custom power-up to post price changes as card comments.
 3.15. Smartsheet
  3.15.1. Feature/Setting: Data shuttle integration from CSV market feeds to ingredient cost columns.
 3.16. Shopify
  3.16.1. Feature/Setting: Product update API; ingredients or variants auto-updated based on source price.
 3.17. HubSpot
  3.17.1. Feature/Setting: Custom properties update via workflow when market API delivers new price.
 3.18. IFTTT
  3.18.1. Feature/Setting: Webhooks; trigger update in Google Sheets when supplier emails arrive.
 3.19. ServiceNow
  3.19.1. Feature/Setting: IntegrationHub flow to fetch and apply market ingredient costs.
 3.20. FreshBooks
  3.20.1. Feature/Setting: Items API auto-update by invoking custom function on price change event.

Benefits

 4.1. Instant visibility into actual food costs and recipe profitability.
 4.2. Proactive pricing adjustments to sustain margins.
 4.3. Elimination of manual tracking and potential for clerical errors.
 4.4. More agile supplier negotiations using up-to-date market insights.
 4.5. Improved forecasting and menu engineering with real-time cost data.