Business Intelligence and Reporting AutomationPurpose
1.2. Automating alerts for slow-moving and high-turnover inventory, helping optimize stock levels, reduce holding costs, and prevent stock-outs.
1.3. Automatedly collect stock movement and sales data to ensure timely actionable insights across multiple POS, ERP, or eCommerce platforms.
1.4. Automate data aggregation for executive dashboards, aiding forward planning and data-driven decision automation.
Trigger Conditions
2.2. Automated warehouse update: new stock received or items sold.
2.3. Threshold-based automator: turnover ratio falls below or rises above pre-set limits.
2.4. Custom event triggers: new product lines added, clearance events, or major sales pushes.
Platform Variants
• Feature/Setting: Use "Recurrence" trigger for time-based automation and apply Stock Analytics connector to automate calculation flows.
3.2. Google Sheets API
• Feature/Setting: Schedule Apps Script to automate data fetch, formula execution, and push alert emails.
3.3. Zapier
• Feature/Setting: Automate extracting sales/inventory from Shopify, calculate ratios, push to Slack or Gmail via workflow automator.
3.4. Salesforce Flow
• Feature/Setting: Automate calculation and reporting using Scheduled Flow, configure for inventory object triggers.
3.5. SAP Business One SDK
• Feature/Setting: Automate using DI API for inventory data and B1if for scheduled calculation workflows.
3.6. Oracle NetSuite SuiteScript
• Feature/Setting: Scheduled SuiteScript 2.0 automates computations and alerts via email/SMS API.
3.7. QuickBooks Online API
• Feature/Setting: Use the InventoryReports endpoint and automate with webhook triggers for ratio thresholds.
3.8. Shopify Admin API
• Feature/Setting: Automate inventoryLevels and Orders endpoints, push results to notification app.
3.9. WooCommerce REST API
• Feature/Setting: Automate GET products/sales events, calculate and send automated Slack/email notifications.
3.10. Odoo ERP Automated Actions
• Feature/Setting: Schedule automated server actions to recalculate inventory ratios and send alerts.
3.11. Twilio SMS API
• Feature/Setting: Automator for scheduled or event-based SMS to warehouse or execs for critical inventory alerts.
3.12. Slack Incoming Webhooks
• Feature/Setting: Automated alert posting for bad or good turnover ratios; settings for channel and formatting.
3.13. SendGrid API
• Feature/Setting: Automated email alerts with dynamic templates for turnover ratio incidents.
3.14. Mailchimp Automation
• Feature/Setting: Trigger automated stock alerts email campaigns based on integrated inventory event data.
3.15. Monday.com Automations
• Feature/Setting: Custom board automator for inventory logs; trigger email or dashboard updates on threshold breach.
3.16. Smartsheet Automated Workflows
• Feature/Setting: Automated data collection, calculation, and notification rules for inventory values.
3.17. Airtable Automation
• Feature/Setting: Script block/run on record update, automate calculation and alert via integration.
3.18. Tableau Prep/Server
• Feature/Setting: Scheduled flow for inventory data extraction, calculation, and automated visual alert.
3.19. Power BI Dataflows
• Feature/Setting: Automate ingestion and transformation; use data alerting for turnover thresholds.
3.20. Freshdesk Automations
• Feature/Setting: Trigger support tickets or notifiers for low or high turnover, automate ticket assignment.
Benefits
4.2. Reduction in manual data handling and faster executive reporting through consistent automation.
4.3. Early warning system automator for overstock or understock, cutting unnecessary costs.
4.4. Improved cash flow and stock optimization with automated real-time alerts and reporting.
4.5. Scalable, auditable automation structure suitable for growing wholesale luggage business intelligence needs.