Automated alerts for price changes or supply shortages

Purpose

1.1. Automate detection and alerting of price changes or supply shortages from light bulb suppliers, ensuring procurement teams respond to market shifts rapidly for optimal inventory and margin control.
1.2. Automates monitoring of supplier catalogs, online inventory feeds, API endpoints, and procurement emails for any automatable anomalies in pricing or stock status.
1.3. Enables automated, cross-channel notifications to procurement, management, or integrated ERP systems, reducing manual tracking and automating compliance with procurement policies.

Trigger Conditions

2.1. Automated detection of a price increase or decrease from a preselected supplier lists or API.
2.2. Automatedly triggered when supply levels fall below set thresholds, signaling potential shortages.
2.3. Triggering also automates from scheduled data syncs (hourly, daily) or webhooks on supply database/marketplace updates.

Platform Variants

3.1. Twilio SMS
• Feature/Setting: Use Programmable SMS API; trigger automated alert on event detection.
• Example: Configure API request with recipient, message content on price change event.
3.2. SendGrid
• Feature/Setting: Trigger automatedly email via SendGrid v3 Mail Send API; on supply or price event.
• Example: API call with sender, recipient, and dynamic supply/price event details.
3.3. PagerDuty
• Feature/Setting: Automated event-triggered incident creation using Events API v2.
• Example: Alert for supply shortage automates PagerDuty escalation.
3.4. Slack
• Feature/Setting: Use Incoming Webhooks to automate message to #procurement channel.
• Example: Send JSON payload with price change summary.
3.5. Microsoft Teams
• Feature/Setting: Automated notifications using Teams connector and webhooks integration.
• Example: Card message automatedly posted on relevant team channel.
3.6. SAP
• Feature/Setting: Trigger SAP Business One Service Layer OData endpoint to log new supply shortage.
• Example: Call updateInventory API on price or stock change detection.
3.7. Oracle NetSuite
• Feature/Setting: Use REST API to automate adjustment or notification in Purchasing module.
• Example: Automate record update and email rollout.
3.8. Salesforce
• Feature/Setting: Triggered outbound message via Salesforce Process Builder.
• Example: Automates notification to procurement users on opportunity or vendor change.
3.9. Google Chat
• Feature/Setting: Use Chat API to send automated supply alert to room.
• Example: Configure bot posting on price trigger.
3.10. Zendesk
• Feature/Setting: Automated ticket creation using Tickets API on price anomaly.
• Example: Log, assign, and escalate event.
3.11. ServiceNow
• Feature/Setting: Orchestrate flows with Flow Designer and automate incident alerts.
• Example: Create event-driven incident for procurement review.
3.12. Microsoft Power Automate
• Feature/Setting: Scheduled cloud flow, using HTTP/REST trigger or connectors.
• Example: Automatedly queries supplier, parses response, sends Outlook notification.
3.13. Google Sheets
• Feature/Setting: Automate script (Apps Script) triggers email/SMS on data change event.
• Example: Automated onEdit() function for supply column.
3.14. Airtable
• Feature/Setting: Automate with Automations—triggered on table update or webhook.
• Example: Send automated summary or webhook on threshold reach.
3.15. AWS SNS (Simple Notification Service)
• Feature/Setting: Topic-based notification automatedly sent to subscribers.
• Example: API call with price event details.
3.16. Zapier
• Feature/Setting: Multi-step automated workflows using Webhook triggers and Slack/Email actions.
• Example: Automated flow from Google Drive data to email/SMS alert.
3.17. Monday.com
• Feature/Setting: Automate workflow, sends alerts/updates on board column changes.
• Example: Automated integration on price field edits.
3.18. Freshdesk
• Feature/Setting: Automated ticket generation using API when price data parsed.
• Example: Email/service desk notification.
3.19. Asana
• Feature/Setting: Automated task creation with API or integration tools.
• Example: Price/supply event leads to new task for follow-up.
3.20. Trello
• Feature/Setting: API automation or Power-Ups to add card to procurement board.
• Example: Automates new card on shortage detection.

Benefits

4.1. Automates proactive procurement response, protecting revenue and customer relationships.
4.2. Enables scalable, automator-driven monitoring, reducing manual effort and oversight failures.
4.3. Minimizes risk of stockouts or costly procurement from secondary markets via automated early detection.
4.4. Boosts data-driven decisions with timely, automatedly delivered actionable alerts.
4.5. Automated, auditable alert trails support compliance and continuous process improvement.