Price change tracking and supplier comparison reports

Purpose

1.1. Automate continuous price change tracking across multiple suppliers for Extremaduran products.
1.2. Automate real-time supplier comparison reports for procurement optimization.
1.3. Automator settings to auto-alert on cost fluctuations, supply shortages, or new offers.
1.4. Schedule automated daily, weekly, or event-based procurement reporting for management.
1.5. Automate integration of price history, trends, and purchase order recommendations into inventory systems for Extremaduran cuisine ingredients.

Trigger Conditions

2.1. Automated supplier API update or feed receives new prices.
2.2. Change detected in pre-set product categories or SKUs.
2.3. Manual entry or file import triggers automated check.
2.4. Scheduled time trigger for regular supplier comparison automation.
2.5. Inventory level falls below reorder threshold and automates comparison for best deal.

Platform Variants

3.1. Google Sheets
• Feature/Setting: Google Apps Script automation for fetching prices from supplier sheets and auto-updating comparison dashboards.
3.2. Microsoft Excel Online
• Feature/Setting: Power Automate flow pulling supplier data via APIs, automating price comparison report generation.
3.3. Zapier
• Feature/Setting: Price tracking automation zaps using Webhook, RSS, or supplier integrations; automated report push to email or Slack.
3.4. Integromat (Make)
• Feature/Setting: Automated scenario connecting supplier portals, updating inventory pricing sheets, and generating comparative PDFs.
3.5. Airtable
• Feature/Setting: Automate table entry updates with supplier API links; send out changing price alerts with Airtable Automations.
3.6. Monday.com
• Feature/Setting: Automated workflows using API connector to refresh supplier price boards and comparison automatons.
3.7. Smartsheet
• Feature/Setting: Automated data shuttle from email or API triggers; comparison reports auto-sent to stakeholders.
3.8. Oracle NetSuite
• Feature/Setting: Price change automating using SuiteScripts; supplier comparison reports using Saved Searches.
3.9. SAP Ariba
• Feature/Setting: Automator integration for automated supplier data extraction, comparison analytics, and reports via scheduled jobs.
3.10. QuickBooks Online
• Feature/Setting: Automated vendor price pulls from bills and purchase orders; comparative data extracted to Google Docs.
3.11. FreshBooks
• Feature/Setting: Automate supplier price entry via API; automatically generate comparative Excel exports.
3.12. Xero
• Feature/Setting: Automating price list imports and supplier report hooks via WorkflowMax Add-on.
3.13. Odoo
• Feature/Setting: Automated supplier price list sync module; price change email triggers and dashboard reporting.
3.14. Shopify
• Feature/Setting: Automated price fetch from supplier inventory apps; automatedly generated comparison analytics for product sourcing.
3.15. WooCommerce
• Feature/Setting: REST API-based automated supplier price polling; automatic stock and price comparison with plugin events.
3.16. Amazon Business
• Feature/Setting: Automator APIs for price feed extraction, automating procurement recommendation emails.
3.17. CSV/Excel File via Email
• Feature/Setting: Watch for incoming email attachments with new prices, automate extraction and comparison routine.
3.18. Web Scraping (e.g., ParseHub, Octoparse)
• Feature/Setting: Automated price extraction from web supplier catalogs, output to comparison database.
3.19. RESTful API Integrations
• Feature/Setting: Direct integration to supplier's systems through automated GET and POST calls; automate parsing and report generation.
3.20. Slack
• Feature/Setting: Automated notifications and reports for price changes posted directly to procurement channels.
3.21. Microsoft Teams
• Feature/Setting: Automator bots push periodical supplier price comparison cards to inventory team channels.

Benefits

4.1. Automates repetitive supplier comparison, freeing staff time for strategic decisions.
4.2. Ensures real-time awareness of pricing, automating cost-saving opportunities for Extremaduran ingredients.
4.3. Minimizes risk of overpaying with auto-notifications and automated recommendations on best offers.
4.4. Automates document archiving of historical price changes for future planning.
4.5. Reduces reliance on manual data entry with error-free, automated workflows.