Automated price updates based on supplier changes

Purpose

1.1. Automate synchronization of sales prices for disposable tableware when a supplier changes costs, minimizing manual updates.
1.2. The automation ensures rapid, accurate alignment of retail or wholesale price lists with upstream procurement variations.
1.3. Prevents profit loss, automates competitive pricing, and integrates updated supplier data across all ordering and sales channels.
1.4. Automates notification to key sales staff if price thresholds or margins are exceeded due to supplier automation.

Trigger Conditions

2.1. Receipt of new supplier price list by email, SFTP, or API.
2.2. Update in a supplier’s online portal or database feed detected by scheduled polling.
2.3. Manual upload by procurement team into designated cloud storage or ERP folder.
2.4. Automated webhook event signaling a supplier invoice adjustment or catalog refresh.

Platform variants

3.1. SAP ERP
• Feature/Setting: Automate with "IDOC" or OData API integration for material price updates.
3.2. Oracle NetSuite
• Feature/Setting: REST API "Item Pricing" endpoint, automatedly synchronize supplier cost-to-sale price.
3.3. Microsoft Dynamics 365
• Feature/Setting: Automate via Product Price List Data Entity, configure Power Automate for triggered update.
3.4. QuickBooks Online
• Feature/Setting: JournalEntry API, automate product detail and price change based on external supplier feed.
3.5. Shopify
• Feature/Setting: Product API for batch update, webhook triggers on new supplier CSV.
3.6. WooCommerce
• Feature/Setting: REST API endpoint /wp-json/wc/v3/products, automate updates via scheduled automation job.
3.7. Amazon Seller Central
• Feature/Setting: Feeds API, automate price uploads from supplier data.
3.8. BigCommerce
• Feature/Setting: Catalog Product API via PATCH method for automated price change.
3.9. Zoho Inventory
• Feature/Setting: API – Items endpoint, automates appending new prices per supplier update.
3.10. Odoo
• Feature/Setting: XML-RPC API "product.template" model, automate mass price changes from supplier signals.
3.11. FreshBooks
• Feature/Setting: Item API, automate syncing product costs and new sale prices.
3.12. Xero
• Feature/Setting: Items PUT API, automates product price alignment with supplier CSV or XML.
3.13. Salesforce
• Feature/Setting: PricebookEntry object–automate update with Flow Builder or REST API on supplier change.
3.14. SAP Ariba
• Feature/Setting: Integration API “Catalog Upload”, automates push of updated supplier prices to procurement catalog.
3.15. TradeGecko (QuickBooks Commerce)
• Feature/Setting: Product API, automate syncing of SKU prices as supplier data arrives.
3.16. SAGE Business Cloud
• Feature/Setting: Item API, automate batch update triggered by supplier cost feed.
3.17. Cin7
• Feature/Setting: Product API, scheduled automation for supplier-driven price changes.
3.18. Unleashed Software
• Feature/Setting: Product API, automating updates from supplier EDI feed.
3.19. Square
• Feature/Setting: Catalog API–automation sync for new supplier prices.
3.20. Google Sheets
• Feature/Setting: Apps Script or API–automate product pricing grid when supplier list is modified.
3.21. Airtable
• Feature/Setting: Automations–script block or API update when supplier price column changes.

Benefits

4.1. Automates the entire price update workflow, saving manual labor.
4.2. Ensures consistent, up-to-date pricing across all sales and order channels.
4.3. Reduces risk of human error and reaction time to supplier changes.
4.4. Automates compliance with pricing policy and margin controls.
4.5. Builds competitive agility by automating pricing as supplier markets fluctuate.