Inventory & Supply Chain AutomationPurpose
1.2. Enables automated detection of wastage, shrinkage, or unsold goods for art supplies and café ingredients.
1.3. Streamlines inventory valuation and reorder points by automating report generation and data uploads.
1.4. Facilitates compliance and loss prevention by automating documentation of reconciliation logs.
1.5. Automates notifications to relevant staff for anomalies, reordering, or discrepancies each day or week without manual checks.
Trigger Conditions
2.2. Automatable trigger via completion of daily sales close in POS.
2.3. Automates on manual trigger from inventory manager dashboard for ad hoc reconciliations.
2.4. Event-based automation: when inventory falls below automatable preset threshold.
Platform Variants
3.1. Square POS
• Feature/Setting: Inventory API — configure automation to fetch item_stock endpoints after close.
• Sample: Automating GET /v2/inventory/physical-counts at 11:59 pm daily.
3.2. Shopify
• Feature/Setting: InventoryLevel API — automate scheduled GET requests for inventory_levels.json.
• Sample: Automated job pulls stock snapshot every Sunday midnight.
3.3. Lightspeed Retail
• Feature/Setting: Inventory Counts — automate export with "Inventory.Count.list" API.
• Sample: Cron-based automator to download inventory counts every Saturday night.
3.4. Toast POS
• Feature/Setting: Inventory Integration API — automate pulling inventoryUpdates at day’s end.
• Sample: Automated GET /inventory/updates triggered by daily sales close.
3.5. Oracle NetSuite
• Feature/Setting: Inventory Management — automates scheduled searches via SuiteScript (nlapiSearchRecord).
• Sample: Scripted automation to export reconciliation CSV weekly.
3.6. QuickBooks Commerce
• Feature/Setting: Inventory API — automates POST /stock_counts/search for daily closed inventory sessions.
• Sample: Scheduled automator for 12 am Mondays.
3.7. Vend (now Lightspeed X-Series)
• Feature/Setting: Inventory API — automated endpoint GET /2.0/inventory at close of business.
• Sample: Automated run at end-of-day reconciles panels.
3.8. Microsoft Dynamics 365
• Feature/Setting: Inventory journals — automates queries through Data entities (InventJournalTable).
• Sample: Recurring automator generates report to reconcile stocks.
3.9. Zoho Inventory
• Feature/Setting: REST API — automate scheduled GET /inventoryadjustments endpoint.
• Sample: Weekly automator sends snapshot and flags anomalies.
3.10. SAP Business One
• Feature/Setting: Inventory Counting — automates using Service Layer InventoryCountingService.
• Sample: Scheduled GET calls automated nightly.
3.11. Fishbowl Inventory
• Feature/Setting: Scheduled Reports — automates inventory reconciliation export via API.
• Sample: Automated file delivery every Friday.
3.12. DEAR Systems
• Feature/Setting: Inventory API — scheduled GET /stockonhand, automates discrepancy logging.
• Sample: Automator sends variance report to email.
3.13. Oracle Fusion
• Feature/Setting: Inventory Balances — automates FBDI file exports and compares with POS.
• Sample: Nightly automation batch.
3.14. SquareSpace Commerce
• Feature/Setting: Inventory Webhooks — automates inventory reconciliation webhook-triggered jobs.
• Sample: Runs after orders close.
3.15. Cin7
• Feature/Setting: Inventory API — automate GET stock on hand daily.
• Sample: Batch automator at close.
3.16. InFlow Inventory
• Feature/Setting: Scheduled reports — automates exports as CSV, pulls for analysis.
• Sample: Weekly automation with custom schedule.
3.17. Finale Inventory
• Feature/Setting: REST API — automate GET /api/stock-level and trigger reconciliation.
• Sample: Evening cron automation.
3.18. Orderhive
• Feature/Setting: Inventory Automation — scheduled inventory check/export via GET API.
• Sample: Runs Sunday night every week.
3.19. WooCommerce
• Feature/Setting: REST API — automate GET /wp-json/wc/v3/products/stock_export.
• Sample: Automated reconciliation post sales close.
3.20. Clover POS
• Feature/Setting: Inventory API — automate scheduled GET /v3/merchants/{mId}/items.
• Sample: Runs at end-of-day, pushes reconciliation report to store manager.
Benefits
4.2. Automates timely anomaly detection and frees staff for higher-value tasks.
4.3. Enables rapid, automated responses for inventory shrinkage, leading to better stock control.
4.4. Automation ensures compliance, consistency, and comprehensive audit trails.
4.5. Automates multi-location consolidation for art-themed café group chains, improving accuracy and speed.