Automatic price updates from suppliers into product database

Purpose

1. Automates the ingestion, transformation, and update of supplier price lists into the wholesale product database, removing manual intervention.

2. Supports real-time, scheduled, or event-driven price synchronizations, reducing pricing discrepancies and operational latency.

3. Ensures procurement and supplier management automation for dynamic, large-scale inventory environments in food and beverage cash & carry wholesale.

4. Integrates supplier feeds (API, FTP, email, EDI) with internal ERP or inventory platforms, automating error handling and data normalization.

5. Enables automated compliance and audit trails by logging every price update action with timestamp/user attribution.

Trigger Conditions

1. New supplier price file detected in SFTP, FTP, email, or cloud storage.

2. Supplier API endpoint signals changed price data (webhook or polling).

3. ERP/database periodic sync schedule (daily/hourly/real-time).

4. Manual update via supplier portal interface or bulk upload.

5. Automated batch job or time-based trigger for price refresh.

Platform Variants

1. Google Sheets

• Feature/Setting: "ImportData" function or Apps Script trigger when a sheet is updated; automate pulling supplier CSV/Excel URLs.
  

2. Microsoft Power Automate

• Feature/Setting: "When a file is created or modified (OneDrive/SFTP)" flow, automates extracting data and pushing to SQL or Dynamics.
  

3. Zapier

• Feature/Setting: "New FTP File" + "Update Database Record" Zap; automates via FTP (input) and SQL Server/MySQL (output).
  

4. Make (Integromat)

• Feature/Setting: SFTP module + JSON/XML parser + Database Update module for automating parsing and loading.
  

5. AWS Lambda

• Feature/Setting: Triggered by S3 PUT event; automates transformation of CSV files and updates DynamoDB or RDS.
  

6. Azure Logic Apps

• Feature/Setting: "When a File is Added or Modified (Blob)" connector; automate price extraction and SQL/ERP update.
  

7. Celigo

• Feature/Setting: Scheduled integration flow; automates connecting FTP or HTTP source to NetSuite Item pricing API.
  

8. MuleSoft

• Feature/Setting: Anypoint Connector for SFTP, transform DataWeave, automate and call ERP/Product API.
  

9. Boomi

• Feature/Setting: AtomSphere Process; automate FTP Polling, cleanse/transform, automate update to SAP/Oracle.
  

10. UiPath

• Feature/Setting: RPA bot for automating data extraction (desktop/web), automates entry to inventory system.
  

11. SAP PI/PO

• Feature/Setting: SFTP Adapter + IDoc/REST API to SAP ECC/S4 HANA Material Master update; automate and schedule.
  

12. Oracle Integration Cloud

• Feature/Setting: Prebuilt FTP/REST Adapters; automate fetch, map, and update Product Catalog via API.
  

13. Dell Boomi

• Feature/Setting: Process integration to automate SFTP, JSON/XML transform, and update ERP or cloud database.
  

14. Workato

• Feature/Setting: Recipe to automate trigger on new supplier file and update NetSuite, Salesforce, or custom SQL.
  

15. Jitterbit

• Feature/Setting: Harmony API platform flow; automate file drops and synchronize with product DB/API endpoint.
  

16. Informatica Cloud

• Feature/Setting: Secure Agent, Data Synchronization Task; automate import, transform, and load into master data.
  

17. Talend

• Feature/Setting: Data Integration Job; automate job scheduling for file processing, automates DB/API updates.
  

18. Apify

• Feature/Setting: Scheduled actors; scrape supplier portals and automate price updates to internal database via API.
  

19. Tray.io

• Feature/Setting: Automated workflow on inbound HTTP request/File; automates mapping to product catalog system.
  

20. Smartsheet

• Feature/Setting: Data Uploader add-on; automate sheet update from supplier file/URL, link to inventory DB API.
  

Benefits

1. Automates error-prone manual data entry, reducing cost and operational risk.

2. Enables real-time supply price visibility, reducing out-of-date pricing.

3. Scalable automation as supplier/buyer count grows; suitable for multi-brand wholesaler.

4. Facilitates automatable price negotiation, analytics, and alerts with instant updates.

5. Supports audit-ready, automated compliance, and price update transparency.

6. Enables seamless integration with downstream automation (invoicing, reordering, analytics).