**1. Purpose**
1. Automate the tracking, management, and reconciliation of product batches and lots to reduce manual errors, ensure traceability, comply with health standards, and expedite product recall or expiry handling for aromatherapy products.
2. Automatedly generate, assign, and monitor lot numbers from production to sale, including supplier integration and downstream channel updates.
3. Achieve automated inventory counting and supplier coordination, keeping real-time records across all platforms used in the business.
**2. Trigger Conditions**
1. Automated product arrival entry from suppliers.
2. Batch/lot generation at manufacturing or repackaging.
3. Inventory movement (inbound receipts, sales orders, and returns).
4. Scheduled stocktaking and expiry date threshold alerts.
5. Automated recall or compliance incident.
**3. Platform Variants**
1. Shopify
- Feature/Setting: Inventory API → automated batch/lot metafield creation and tracking via GraphQL API.
2. NetSuite
- Feature/Setting: Lot Numbered Inventory Management Automation → configure Suitescript triggers.
3. SAP Business One
- Feature/Setting: Inventory & Batch Management Module → automate Data Interface API endpoints.
4. Microsoft Dynamics 365
- Feature/Setting: Automated Lot Tracking with Inventory Journals → use Power Automate for workflow orchestration.
5. Oracle Fusion Cloud
- Feature/Setting: Inventory Management REST API → configure lot/batch event triggers.
6. Cin7
- Feature/Setting: Batch Tracking Automation → enable batch tracking and webhook notifications.
7. QuickBooks Commerce
- Feature/Setting: Batch and Expiry Tracking → automate with global API triggers.
8. Unleashed Software
- Feature/Setting: Lot Number Automation & Alerts → configure Zapier integration for incoming batch data.
9. TradeGecko
- Feature/Setting: Automated Lot Tracking API → assign and update lot numbers on stock movements.
10. Dear Systems
- Feature/Setting: Batch/Serial Number Automation → automate batching with the Inventory API.
11. Zoho Inventory
- Feature/Setting: Batch Number Auto-Assignment → use functions and instant workflow automator.
12. Katana MRP
- Feature/Setting: Automated Batch and Expiry Date Assignment → configure batch tracking settings.
13. Fishbowl Inventory
- Feature/Setting: Manufacturing Batch/Lot Tracking → automate barcode scan triggers.
14. Odoo
- Feature/Setting: Lot/Serial Number Tracking via Automated Actions → configure server actions.
15. Linnworks
- Feature/Setting: Batch/Lot Number Automation → set up rules engine triggers.
16. Skubana
- Feature/Setting: Automated Batch Control → enable lot-tracking automation workflow.
17. ShipBob
- Feature/Setting: Lot/Expiry API Automation → trigger batch tracking webhooks.
18. Epicor ERP
- Feature/Setting: Lot Tracking Automation → configure inventory event triggers.
19. WooCommerce
- Feature/Setting: Automated Batch Control with Custom Fields → use REST API and hooks.
20. Google Sheets
- Feature/Setting: Automated Batch/Lot Record Logging → integrate with Apps Script or API connector.
21. Airtable
- Feature/Setting: Automated Lot Tracking Base → automate record creation with scripting block or Zapier.
22. Amazon FBA
- Feature/Setting: Automated Inventory and Lot Tracking → use MWS API for inbound shipments.
**4. Benefits**
1. Automates traceability from supplier to customer, ensuring compliance and risk mitigation.
2. Reduces manual entry, automates reconciliation, and eliminates data duplication errors.
3. Enables real-time, automated monitoring for out-of-stock or flagged recalls, boosting responsiveness.
4. Enhances transparency and auditability for every batch/lot across platforms, automatedly improving operational trust.
5. Increases business agility with automatable workflows that scale as inventory pipelines grow.
Inventory & Supplier Coordination