Purpose
1.2. Automatedly centralize sales, menu, and SKU consumption data, ensuring timely purchase orders and minimizing both excess stock and shortages.
1.3. Automating the process allows dynamic demand prediction, supplier comparison, and optimization of food & beverage procurement, specific to French cuisine inventory characteristics.
1.4. Facilitate automated communication between purchasing, kitchen, and suppliers for seamless, accurate, just-in-time restocking workflows.
Trigger Conditions
2.2. Manual trigger by inventory manager for urgent reordering contingent upon threshold breaches.
2.3. Automated daily push from integrated POS upon transaction batch closure.
2.4. API webhook event from accounting platform detailing finalized daily revenue and itemized SKU movement.
Platform Variants
• POS Data API: Automate extraction of daily itemized sales reports for inventory integration.
3.2. Toast POS
• Orders API: Set up automated batch jobs to fetch food sales data and sync with inventory platform.
3.3. Lightspeed
• Inventory module endpoint: Automates fetching menu-wise stock movement for supplier coordination.
3.4. Shopify POS
• Admin GraphQL API: Configure automated queries to pull product sales numbers specific to food SKUs.
3.5. Oracle MICROS Simphony
• Reporting service API: Automate export of custom daily sales and inventory delta.
3.6. Upserve
• Sales Analytics API: Automate pushing summary and itemized sales to the procurement system.
3.7. Revel Systems
• Inventory API: Schedule automated transfer of sold item data for predictive procurement.
3.8. Vend
• Product Movement API: Automate daily fetch and sync of movement logs with purchasing suite.
3.9. Xero
• Invoices Read API: Trigger automated extraction of F&B daily revenue and SKU breakdown.
3.10. QuickBooks Online
• Sales Receipt API: Automate daily push of sales to inventory spreadsheet/database.
3.11. SAP Business One
• Service Layer Sales Order API: Automatedly pull transactional details for French cuisine SKUs.
3.12. Zoho Inventory
• Sales Order API: Automate fetching and syncing orders for recipe-level forecasting.
3.13. Microsoft Dynamics 365
• Sales Module API: Automate pulling and pushing sales data for restaurant stock analytics.
3.14. Oracle NetSuite
• Item Fulfillment API: Automate integration for predictive ordering rules.
3.15. Slack
• Incoming Webhooks: Automate posting of low inventory alerts from daily sales analysis.
3.16. Google Sheets
• Sheets API: Automate updating and archiving daily sales and consumption data for analysis.
3.17. Airtable
• Automations: Setup schedule-based automated import of POS sales records.
3.18. Monday.com
• Integrations: Automate mapping of sales to supplier reordering boards.
3.19. Trello
• Cards API: Automatedly create cards for items requiring urgent restock based on sales data.
3.20. Mailgun
• Messages API: Automate email notifications to suppliers for daily restock requirement reviewing.
Benefits
4.2. Automated inventory forecasting stabilizes supply chain and lessens food waste in French restaurant operations.
4.3. Automator setup creates a repeatable, scalable solution for both single-location and multi-unit French cuisine outlets.
4.4. Automated workflows minimize manual workload for staff while ensuring stock never runs out during busy periods.
4.5. Automation facilitates improved supplier negotiations using real-time, accurate consumption forecasts.