Alert procurement of supplier price changes or new products

Purpose

1. Automate real-time notifications for insulation materials retailers on supplier price changes or new product additions, ensuring swift, automated responses and inventory or pricing adjustments for business continuity.

2. Enable automated monitoring of supplier catalogs, automating cost management, and facilitating immediate automator-driven procurement decisions.

3. Enhance business agility by automating cross-department alerts, purchasing workflows, and stakeholder communications regarding supplier fluctuations.

Trigger Conditions

1. Automated detection of price changes in supplier data feeds, APIs, or scraped data sources.

2. Automated alert when new SKUs, product codes, or product descriptions appear in supplier databases or emails.

3. Automation trigger via scheduled inventory synchronization process or on-demand supplier catalog refresh.

Platform Variants

1. Twilio SMS

• Feature/Setting: SMS API for automating instant alerts on price/product change; Configure webhook to automate outbound messaging.
  

2. SendGrid

• Feature/Setting: Email API automating notification emails; Set up dynamic templates to automate price alert delivery.
  

3. Slack

• Feature/Setting: Webhooks for automating channel messages; Configure incoming webhooks to automate procurement team alerts.
  

4. Microsoft Teams

• Feature/Setting: Teams Bot Framework for automated card/post; Automate message delivery using Teams connector.
  

5. Google Sheets

• Feature/Setting: Automate price log entries; Monitor cell changes and automate notification flows on update triggers.
  

6. Airtable

• Feature/Setting: Automate record updates; Use scripts or webhooks to automate alert when supplier data changes.
  

7. SAP Ariba

• Feature/Setting: Use Supplier Management API to automate data pulls and automated price change notifications.
  

8. Oracle NetSuite

• Feature/Setting: SuiteScript to automate supplier event detection; automate email or workflow notification.
  

9. Shopify

• Feature/Setting: Webhooks to automate inventory or product changes; Use the "Product Update" webhook for automated alerts.
  

10. WooCommerce

• Feature/Setting: REST API monitors product changes; Automate outgoing hooks or emails on detected supplier updates.
  

11. Salesforce

• Feature/Setting: Process Builder/Flow automates alert when supplier records change; configure automation to send notifications.
  

12. HubSpot

• Feature/Setting: Workflow automation for contact/company updates; automate notification on supplier property change.
  

13. Zapier

• Feature/Setting: Multi-app automation for trigger-action sequences; automate supplier price feed watching and alert triggering.
  

14. Make (formerly Integromat)

• Feature/Setting: Automated scenarios for monitoring APIs/files; automate notification path to email/SMS or Slack.
  

15. Amazon SNS

• Feature/Setting: Pub/Sub notification automator; automate topic subscription for procurement alerts.
  

16. Google Cloud Pub/Sub

• Feature/Setting: Automate message publishing from supplier feeds; automate subscriber notification pipelines.
  

17. Microsoft Power Automate

• Feature/Setting: Automated "When an item is modified" flow; link to Teams/email/SMS.
  

18. Jira

• Feature/Setting: Webhooks automating ticket creation for procurement workflow; alert teams on new supplier pricing.
  

19. ServiceNow

• Feature/Setting: Automated workflow for Supplier Alerts; automates incident or notification record creation.
  

20. Monday.com

• Feature/Setting: Automated board updates; Automate notification or pulse creation when suppliers update external lists.
  

Benefits

1. Automates manual monitoring of supplier prices, reducing human error and enhancing automation reliability.

2. Enables instant, automated communication, ensuring stakeholders act promptly on automatable procurement opportunities.

3. Automated integration reduces operational lag, enabling dynamic, automated procurement strategies and improved inventory management.

4. Facilitates regulatory compliance with automated audit trails on price changes.

5. Improves competitive advantage via faster, automated adaptation to supplier market changes.