Inventory & Supply Chain AutomationPurpose
1.2. Automates retrieval of latest ingredient costs from vendors, updates calculations based on predefined recipe structures, and pushes the updated cost data to inventory, purchasing, and menu engineering systems.
1.3. Automatedly informs kitchen staff, purchasing, and management of recipe cost fluctuations for optimized supply chain decisions.
Trigger Conditions
2.2. Manual menu change or new recipe entry by culinary staff.
2.3. Automated trigger by scheduled batch process (e.g., nightly or weekly).
2.4. Integration webhook from ERP changes in inventory costs.
Platform Variants
3.1. Oracle NetSuite
• Feature/Setting: Use “Purchase Item Receipt” API; automate retrieval of latest costs.
3.2. SAP Business One
• Feature/Setting: Invoke “Goods Receipt PO” Service Layer API; automates cost data fetch and update.
3.3. QuickBooks Online
• Feature/Setting: “Items” endpoint; scheduled pull of updated inventory prices.
3.4. Zoho Inventory
• Feature/Setting: “Item Rate Update” API; automate rate synchronization on recipe items.
3.5. FreshBooks
• Feature/Setting: “Items” API; automate cost updates and notify procurement team.
3.6. Microsoft Dynamics 365
• Feature/Setting: “Product Information Management” OData endpoint; automate calculation flows.
3.7. Square for Restaurants
• Feature/Setting: “Catalog API” for menu and recipe management; automated ingredient price mapping.
3.8. Toast POS
• Feature/Setting: “Inventory API”; automates material cost updates for recipe assemblies.
3.9. Revel Systems
• Feature/Setting: “Product” API; automate updating COGS following inventory changes.
3.10. Xero
• Feature/Setting: “Inventory” API; trigger cost update workflows on item edit or upon batch import.
3.11. SAP S/4HANA
• Feature/Setting: “Material Master Update” API; automates engineering recipe cost flow.
3.12. Lightspeed Restaurant
• Feature/Setting: “Ingredient Management” API; schedule cost recalculation tasks.
3.13. Clover POS
• Feature/Setting: “Inventory API”; automatic synchronization with supplier data.
3.14. Airtable
• Feature/Setting: Script automation on “Ingredient Price” column updates.
3.15. Google Sheets
• Feature/Setting: App Script webhook; automates cost recalculation upon sheet change.
3.16. Monday.com
• Feature/Setting: Recipe automations; updates recipe cost column auto-calculated from ingredient boards.
3.17. HubSpot Operations Hub
• Feature/Setting: Data Sync automation with recipes database via custom workflow triggers.
3.18. Trello
• Feature/Setting: Automation rules on ingredient cards; triggers renewal of cost data.
3.19. Slack
• Feature/Setting: Workflow Builder integration; sends automated alerts when recipe costs exceed threshold.
3.20. Jira
• Feature/Setting: Automation rules; triggers issue creation on recipe cost anomalies.
3.21. Power Automate (Microsoft)
• Feature/Setting: Automated flows for periodic recipe cost recalculation using connected data sources.
3.22. Make (formerly Integromat)
• Feature/Setting: Scheduled scenario for pulling cost data from supplier APIs and updating inventory tables.
3.23. Salesforce
• Feature/Setting: Flow automation for ingredient cost updates via “Custom Objects” API.
3.24. WooCommerce
• Feature/Setting: REST API update for product cost meta; automates menu price suggestion.
3.25. Shopify
• Feature/Setting: “Product Update” API; automates adjustment to recipe kit costs in online menus.
Benefits
4.2. Enables fast, automated responses to ingredient cost fluctuations; maximizes margin control.
4.3. Automatedly maintains cost competitiveness in menu pricing, supporting dynamic menu engineering.
4.4. Allows Hunan restaurant management to automate profitability analysis by identifying high-cost recipes instantly.
4.5. Drives automated ordering and procurement efficiency by integrating real-time cost intelligence into supply chain planning.
4.6. Supports compliance and transparency by automatedly maintaining up-to-date cost logs for audits.