Price comparison summaries for procurement

Purpose

 1.1. Automate the aggregation of price quotes from multiple beauty product suppliers.
 1.2. Automatically generate comparison summaries to identify the most cost-effective procurement options.
 1.3. Reduce manual effort, eliminate errors, and accelerate supplier decision-making for wholesalers.
 1.4. Enable real-time, automated insights and reporting for procurement managers, increasing operational efficiency.
 1.5. Facilitate automated sharing of price summaries with key stakeholders for transparent procurement workflows.

Trigger Conditions

 2.1. Automated trigger from new RFQ email receipt.
 2.2. Scheduled time-based automation for weekly procurement runs.
 2.3. Manual input trigger from procurement portal dashboards.
 2.4. API signal from internal ERP whenever reordering thresholds are crossed.
 2.5. Supplier portal webhook delivering updated price lists.

Platform Variants

 3.1. Gmail
  • Feature/Setting: Automated email parsing using AppScript; trigger on supplier quote emails.

 3.2. Microsoft Outlook
  • Feature/Setting: Power Automate with "When a new email arrives" for procurement mailbox.

 3.3. Dropbox
  • Feature/Setting: Automated file upload/watch to process new price lists.

 3.4. Google Drive
  • Feature/Setting: Configure "New file in folder" automation for supplier uploads.

 3.5. OneDrive
  • Feature/Setting: Automated monitoring of shared procurement folders.

 3.6. Slack
  • Feature/Setting: Automated notification using "Incoming Webhook" for summarized price comparisons.

 3.7. Microsoft Teams
  • Feature/Setting: Post automated procurement summaries via “Post message” Bot.

 3.8. SAP Ariba
  • Feature/Setting: Automate data extraction with “Procurement API.”

 3.9. Oracle Procurement Cloud
  • Feature/Setting: Automated data pulls by configuring “Purchase Order API”.

 3.10. Coupa
  • Feature/Setting: Trigger workflows using “Supplier API” for quote monitoring.

 3.11. Salesforce
  • Feature/Setting: Automate procurement records with “Apex Email Service”.

 3.12. HubSpot
  • Feature/Setting: Automated quote tracking using workflow “Trigger on form submission”.

 3.13. Zapier
  • Feature/Setting: Multi-app automation; watch for supplier forms or emails.

 3.14. Make (Integromat)
  • Feature/Setting: Multi-step automation with data transformation between procurement tools and spreadsheets.

 3.15. Smartsheet
  • Feature/Setting: Automated row addition upon receiving price quotes via form/API.

 3.16. Monday.com
  • Feature/Setting: Trigger automations on new item creation for price inputs.

 3.17. Google Sheets
  • Feature/Setting: Parse and aggregate prices with “onEdit” Apps Script trigger.

 3.18. Airtable
  • Feature/Setting: Automate data sync and aggregation from supplier sources.

 3.19. Docparser
  • Feature/Setting: Automated extraction of price data from PDF quotes.

 3.20. PDF.co
  • Feature/Setting: API automation for PDF parsing and line-item comparison.

 3.21. Amazon AWS Lambda
  • Feature/Setting: Run automated comparison scripts on new dataset upload.

 3.22. Microsoft Power BI
  • Feature/Setting: Automated refresh and visualization of real-time price summaries.

Benefits

 4.1. Automated comparisons reduce manual procurement effort and errors.
 4.2. Streamlines price collation, improving strategic buying decisions through automation.
 4.3. Enables timely, automated procurement actions based on real-time data.
 4.4. Enhances transparency and speed via automatable reporting and sharing of summaries.
 4.5. Automates compliance and audit readiness by documenting all supplier price interactions.