Purpose
1.2. Automates data extraction from inventory management systems and reconciles with sales records, purchase records, and disposal logs.
1.3. Supports audit compliance, reduces manual errors, and provides automated insight into inventory discrepancies or losses.
1.4. Enables automatedly tracking salvage parts, high-value assets, and materials, ensuring regulatory and business accuracy.
Trigger Conditions
2.2. Completion of inventory updates in management system.
2.3. Posting of new transactions or batch data imports.
2.4. Automated webhook signal from third-party ERP or asset platforms.
Platform Variants
3.1. Microsoft Power Automate
- Feature/Setting: Scheduled flow trigger; Automatedly extracts inventory data using "Get Items" in SharePoint or "List Rows" in Dataverse.
3.2. Google Apps Script
- Feature/Setting: Timed trigger; Automates extraction, reconciliation, and emailing of Google Sheets inventory data.
3.3. Zapier
- Feature/Setting: Schedule trigger; Automate workflow with Google Sheets, QuickBooks, or Airtable via “Find Record” and “Send Email” actions.
3.4. Make (Integromat)
- Feature/Setting: Scheduler module; Automates multi-platform reconciliations using HTTP or Google Drive modules.
3.5. Salesforce
- Feature/Setting: Scheduled Reports or Apex scheduled jobs; Automates inventory object data reconciliation and email distribution.
3.6. SAP Business One
- Feature/Setting: Scheduled Query Generator or SAP Crystal Reports; Automates pulling and emailing periodic inventory reports via SMTP integration.
3.7. ServiceNow
- Feature/Setting: Scheduled Data Export; Automates inventory table reconciliation with customized notification flows.
3.8. Odoo
- Feature/Setting: Automated Actions; Schedule automated inventory-count and report delivery using Inventory module via Email API.
3.9. QuickBooks Online
- Feature/Setting: Scheduled “Inventory Valuation” export through Reports API; Automates delivery to managers.
3.10. Airtable
- Feature/Setting: Airtable Automations with scheduled trigger; Automatedly compiles and sends inventory data using "Find Records" and "Send email".
3.11. Smartsheet
- Feature/Setting: Time-based workflows; Automator sends reconciled inventory sheet using Alerts & Actions.
3.12. NetSuite
- Feature/Setting: Scheduled Saved Searches; Automates inventory records extraction and scheduled report dispatch.
3.13. Oracle Fusion Cloud
- Feature/Setting: ESS Job Automation; Scheduled run of inventory reconciliation and automated notification.
3.14. Monday.com
- Feature/Setting: Scheduled Automations; Automates checking, compiling, and notifying inventory status using “Every time period” trigger.
3.15. Trello
- Feature/Setting: Butler Automation; Scheduled commands to move, check, and email card-based inventory records.
3.16. Trellinator
- Feature/Setting: Google Apps Script timed triggers; Automates board reconciliation and pushes formatted inventory summary.
3.17. Slack
- Feature/Setting: Scheduled Workflows; Automate delivery of inventory summaries to salvage yard team channels using “Scheduled Date & Time” trigger.
3.18. Email (SMTP)
- Feature/Setting: Automated email scripts; SMTP or transactional email API automates sending detailed reconciliation reports to stakeholders.
3.19. AWS Lambda
- Feature/Setting: EventBridge scheduled triggers; Automates inventory data aggregation, executes reconciliation logic, automatedly emails report.
3.20. Azure Logic Apps
- Feature/Setting: Recurrence trigger; Automates pulling inventory system API, compares databases, and delivers report via automated email connector.
3.21. HubSpot
- Feature/Setting: Workflow automation scheduled trigger; Automates inventory ticket check and mass notification via integrated report delivery.
Benefits
4.2. Ensures timely, automated reconciliation to increase corporate oversight.
4.3. Reduces reliance on human labor, automating manual reconciliation tasks.
4.4. Enables automatedly actionable alerts for discrepancies, supporting rapid salvage yard decisions.
4.5. Keeps compliance reports ready automatically for regulatory inspectors and corporate audits.
4.6. Drives efficiency and transparency by automating repetitive reconciliation and reporting processes.