Inventory, Procurement & Supply ChainPurpose
1.2. Integrate multi-channel inventory updates automatedly from POS, ERP, eCommerce, supplier, and warehouse systems to minimize discrepancies.
1.3. Automatically generate and share inventory status, exception, and replenishment reports to stakeholders, ensuring up-to-date inventory awareness and decision support.
Trigger Conditions
2.2. Manual trigger from authorized staff through a dashboard or mobile device.
2.3. Automated event-based triggers—on stock intake, sale, purchase order update, or backend API notifications.
Platform Variants
3.1. QuickBooks Online
• Feature/Setting: Inventory Reports API — Automate “Create Inventory Valuation Summary” job, polling every night for reconciliation changes.
3.2. Xero
• Feature/Setting: Inventory Items API — Automating fetch and compare stock-on-hand, pushing flagged discrepancies to audit logs.
3.3. Oracle NetSuite
• Feature/Setting: Inventory Adjustments SuiteTalk API — Automate logging, variance reconciliation, and triggering exception reports.
3.4. SAP Business One
• Feature/Setting: Inventory Audit Report Service Layer — Automate scheduled report export and difference checks.
3.5. Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
• Feature/Setting: Warehouse Management API — Automate inventory snapshot, compare with recorded stock, create automated alert record.
3.6. Shopify
• Feature/Setting: Inventory Level Webhooks — Automates data pulls and pushes automated discrepancy reports by location to staff.
3.7. WooCommerce
• Feature/Setting: REST API Products/Stock — Automate daily itemized inventory fetch and automated reporting of mismatches.
3.8. Square
• Feature/Setting: Inventory API — Automate post-transaction reconciliation and automated inventory variance alerts.
3.9. Lightspeed Retail
• Feature/Setting: InventoryCount GET — Scheduled automated pulls for stock count and automated discrepancy notification workflow.
3.10. Odoo
• Feature/Setting: Inventory Adjustment API — Automate batch reconciliation jobs and automated email of inventory reports.
3.11. TradeGecko (QuickBooks Commerce)
• Feature/Setting: Stock Adjustments API — Automate data pull and detect/notify inconsistencies with supplier records.
3.12. Cin7
• Feature/Setting: Inventory GET/Stock Adjustment — Automate inventory snapshot generation and automated exception CSV delivery.
3.13. Zoho Inventory
• Feature/Setting: Inventory Reports API — Automate nightly job to pull and compare stock reports, sending exceptions via workflow rules.
3.14. DEAR Systems
• Feature/Setting: InventoryMovement API — Schedule automated audit and reporting routine.
3.15. Unleashed
• Feature/Setting: StockOnHand API — Automate data fetching and automated flagging for negative/zero balances.
3.16. Fishbowl Inventory
• Feature/Setting: Inventory Report API — Automate recurrent fetch, variance match, and alarm setting.
3.17. Skubana
• Feature/Setting: Get Inventory Levels — Automate periodic reconciliation and automated exporting of matched/unmatched data.
3.18. SAP S/4HANA
• Feature/Setting: Inventory Management API — Automate variance analytics and report generation routines.
3.19. Sage Intacct
• Feature/Setting: Inventory Subledger Reports — Automate scheduled reports and automated flag of adjustments.
3.20. Amazon Seller Central
• Feature/Setting: Reports API (GET_FBA_INVENTORY) — Automate inventory data pulls and automated summary/alert emails.
Benefits
4.2. Automatedly flags issues in real-time, enabling proactive loss and shrinkage mitigation.
4.3. Automation enables 24/7 monitoring, ensuring no delays in addressing inventory variances.
4.4. Automator orchestrates easy multi-system integration, consolidating comprehensive inventory visibility.
4.5. Automated reporting supports audit, compliance, and rapid management response, enhancing decision-making efficiency.