Price comparison and best-offer alerts from multiple suppliers

Purpose

1. Aggregate real-time pricing and stock data for acrylic supplies from multiple suppliers.

2. Compare supplier offers, factoring in shipping costs, minimum order quantities, and delivery times.

3. Identify and alert purchasing agents of the best available offers in the market automatically.

4. Enable rapid procurement cycles to optimize margins and stock levels in an acrylic retail environment.

5. Automate supplier selection and order initiation when preferred criteria are met.

Trigger Conditions

1. Scheduled query (e.g., every hour) to supplier portals for updated prices/inventory.

2. Manual trigger by procurement team for immediate price comparison.

3. Receipt of promotional emails or API price-feed notifications from suppliers.

4. Detected below-threshold inventory for priority SKUs which initiates best-offer search.

Platform Variants

1. Shopify

• Function: Use Shopify Admin API to fetch current stock and trigger procurement webhook when low.
  
• Sample: InventoryLevel API endpoint + Webhooks/Orders Paid.
  

2. Amazon Business

• Function: Amazon Business Punchout API to retrieve supplier catalog prices.
  
• Sample: SearchCatalog API with custom filters for acrylic products.
  

3. SAP Ariba

• Feature: Spot Buy API to request and compare live spot market pricing.
  
• Sample: SpotBuy/Requisitions endpoint configuration.
  

4. Oracle Procurement Cloud

• Feature: Supplier Price List API, integrated with Procurement Contracts module.
  
• Sample: REST GET on supplierPriceList.
  

5. Coupa

• Function: eSourcing API to pull submitted bids for acrylic supply RFPs.
  
• Sample: GET /api/sourcing_events/{id}/bids.
  

6. TradeGecko (QuickBooks Commerce)

• Feature: Supplier Price List endpoint for live price sync.
  
• Sample: /suppliers API + webhook for pricing changes.
  

7. Xero

• Feature: Purchase Orders API to fetch recent supplier quotes.
  
• Sample: GET /PurchaseOrders endpoint; compare draft POs.
  

8. QuickBooks Online

• Function: Vendor Price API to pull best-offer prices.
  
• Sample: Query to /vendor endpoint.
  

9. GEP SMART

• Feature: Supplier Connect API for up-to-date price and stock info.
  
• Sample: supplierPricingFeed endpoint with SKU-based filters.
  

10. EDI via TrueCommerce

• Function: Receive standardized 832 (Catalog) documents for bulk price updates.
  
• Sample: EDI integration with price-change triggers.
  

11. Zoho Inventory

• Function: Vendor Price List API to fetch and update supplier prices automatically.
  
• Sample: /vendorpricelists endpoint scheduled sync.
  

12. NetSuite

• Function: SuiteTalk APIs to pull supplier pricing for specific SKUs.
  
• Sample: getVendorPricing SOAP action.
  

13. Slack

• Function: Send alerts to channel using incoming webhook for best-offer notifications.
  
• Sample: /services/hooks/incoming-webhook with price data.
  

14. Microsoft Teams

• Feature: Send automated message cards with comparison summary via Teams Connector.
  
• Sample: POST JSON payload to Teams channel webhook.
  

15. Twilio

• Function: SMS alerts when a new lowest-price supplier is detected.
  
• Sample: /Messages endpoint with dynamic message body.
  

16. Gmail

• Function: Automated parse and forward supplier quote emails to procurement Slack.
  
• Sample: Gmail API + trigger on subject/label match.
  

17. SendGrid

• Feature: Automated email summary delivery to procurement managers.
  
• Sample: API v3 Mail Send with dynamic content blocks.
  

18. Google Sheets

• Function: Store historical supplier price offers for auditing and trend analysis.
  
• Sample: AppendRows via Sheets API on each price comparison run.
  

19. Airtable

• Function: Maintain a live dashboard of supplier quotes and best offers.
  
• Sample: Update/patch Records API for each data refresh.
  

20. Zapier

• Feature: Orchestrate multi-app flows (triggered by inventory drop, followed by price checks and alerts).
  
• Sample: Scheduled Zap with Email/Slack/Twilio actions on price update event.
  

21. Monday.com

• Feature: Dashboard widget for real-time supplier price comparison data.
  
• Sample: Push updates via Monday.com API to a specific board/item.
  

Benefits

1. Rapid, error-free identification of best supplier offers for acrylic stock.

2. Automated alerts prevent missed savings and ensure timely reorders.

3. Historical tracking for supplier price trends and negotiation leverage.

4. Seamless cross-platform visibility minimizes manual checks and boosts procurement productivity.

5. Flexible integration with existing retail tech stack and communication tools.