Commercial & Vendor Management AutomationPurpose
b. Automate real-time updates to performance dashboards, automate alerts for exceptions, and automate regular summary reports to management.
c. Automate integration of data from procurement, ticketing, delivery, invoicing, and feedback tools.
d. Automate compliance tracking—ensuring vendor SLAs are met and issues are escalated automatically for remediation.
Trigger Conditions
b. Scheduled interval (e.g., daily or weekly refresh of KPIs).
c. Manual trigger by procurement officer or automated escalation trigger (e.g., performance outlier detected).
d. Automated data ingestion API webhook.
Platform variants
• Feature/Setting: Power BI Dataflow API with Scheduled Refresh; configure to automate dashboard updates from vendor databases.
3.2. Tableau
• Feature/Setting: Tableau REST API—automate dashboard data source refresh and automate external alerting.
3.3. Google Sheets
• Feature/Setting: Google Apps Script automation—trigger on change/interval to fetch new supplier KPIs.
3.4. Slack
• Feature/Setting: Incoming Webhook/Slack Bot—automate supplier alert posting in dedicated channels on status change.
3.5. Zapier
• Feature/Setting: Automated multistep Zaps—connect procurement apps, automate email alerts, update dashboards via API.
3.6. Monday.com
• Feature/Setting: Integrations Automation—use vendor board automators triggered on status change or new entry.
3.7. Smartsheet
• Feature/Setting: Automated Workflows with Update Requests API—trigger on changes to vendor records.
3.8. AWS Lambda
• Feature/Setting: Automate vendor data stream to analysis pipeline; trigger Lambda function on S3 or DynamoDB update.
3.9. Google Data Studio
• Feature/Setting: Automated Data Source Refresh via Apps Script or Data Connectors with scheduled intervals.
3.10. Salesforce
• Feature/Setting: Process Builder and Flow—automate vendor performance scoring and report automation.
3.11. ServiceNow
• Feature/Setting: Automated Workflows/IntegrationHub—trigger updates when supplier incident KPIs change.
3.12. Jira
• Feature/Setting: Jira Automation rule—on issue update, trigger API call to push to analytics dashboard.
3.13. Asana
• Feature/Setting: Rules Automation—on vendor project status update, automate push to supplier dashboard via API.
3.14. Microsoft Excel (Online)
• Feature/Setting: Power Automate Flow—automate Excel-to-dashboard data uploads and supplier alert flows.
3.15. Trello
• Feature/Setting: Power-Ups automation or Butler—trigger auto-update to status board and supplier metrics reporting.
3.16. HubSpot
• Feature/Setting: Workflow Automation—on contract event, automate logic to update supplier performance objects.
3.17. QuickBooks Online
• Feature/Setting: Webhook/Integration Event—trigger report generation on new invoice/payment for vendor.
3.18. Xero
• Feature/Setting: Automated API Trigger—alert or integrate KPIs into external dashboard on new vendor activity.
3.19. SAP Ariba
• Feature/Setting: API Integration—automate extraction of procurement analytics for direct dashboard sync.
3.20. Oracle Cloud Procurement
• Feature/Setting: Automated REST API call—scheduled supplier performance data push to analytics workspace.
3.21. Power Automate
• Feature/Setting: Flows—automate end-to-end supplier record monitoring, exception reporting, and chart updating.
3.22. Airtable
• Feature/Setting: Automations—on record change, automate webhook to send updates to dashboard app.
Benefits
b. Enables automatedly real-time vendor compliance and quality monitoring with live dashboards.
c. Automates escalation and exception-based alerting for proactive supplier management.
d. Automator-driven workflow streamlines procurement, lowers SLA risk, and automates reporting.
e. Allows scalable automation across multiple corporate campuses and vendor portfolios, supporting standardized, auditable review processes.