Automated alerts for price changes from suppliers

Purpose

1. Automate real-time detection and notification of supplier price changes for poultry products to enhance supply chain efficiency and rapid response.

2. Automates collection of pricing data from supplier portals, emails, or EDI for actionable procurement decisions.

3. Reduces manual effort by automating alerts when price fluctuations occur, ensuring optimized purchasing and margin protection.

4. Automates the approval workflow and notifies stakeholders or system integrators for streamlined pricing management.

5. Provides a compliant, auditable, automated log of all supplier price changes with digital timestamps for inventory and procurement teams.

Trigger Conditions

1. Automated trigger on receipt of new price list email, EDI feed, supplier CSV upload, API push, or web scraping job.

2. Automation detects change vs. previous price for SKUs or categories.

3. Scheduled automated polling or webhook for real-time/periodic price feed retrieval.

4. Automatable threshold-based triggers: x% increase, decrease, or specific product flagged.

5. Supplier portal credentials updated automatedly.

Platform Variants

1. Microsoft Power Automate

• Feature/Setting: “When a new email arrives” trigger connected to Gmail/Outlook, automate parsing attachments, “Send alert” by Teams or mobile push.
  

2. Zapier

• Feature/Setting: Email Parser, Webhook, or API trigger with Filter; automated Slack/email/SMS notifications.
  

3. Make (Integromat)

• Feature/Setting: Automated HTTP/Webhook triggers or scheduled fetching; scenario automates Google Sheets/Slack alerts.
  

4. AWS Lambda

• Feature/Setting: Automated Lambda functions respond to S3 CSV uploads or EventBridge triggers detecting price files.
  

5. Google Cloud Functions

• Feature/Setting: HTTP trigger for web-scraped or API-fed price changes; automates alert via Pub/Sub.
  

6. Twilio

• Feature/Setting: SMS API; automated alert message sent to procurement or managers on price change event.
  

7. SendGrid

• Feature/Setting: Automated email alert configuration using Mail Send API; templated for price change notification.
  

8. Slack

• Feature/Setting: Incoming Webhook; automate messages to specific channels based on keyword alert rules.
  

9. Microsoft Teams

• Feature/Setting: Automated Teams Bot sends adaptive cards or message notifications via API on detected change.
  

10. SAP Integration Suite

• Feature/Setting: Automate B2B integration for inbound supplier EDI; configure alert flows on pricing segments.
  

11. Workato

• Feature/Setting: Automated recipes; API/Database monitor triggers, Slack/Teams alert steps.
  

12. Google Sheets

• Feature/Setting: Automated App Script monitors cell changes against supplier feeds; automated email/push sent.
  

13. Airtable

• Feature/Setting: Automation triggers on record update; “Send Notification” action or Webhook to third-party.
  

14. Oracle Integration Cloud

• Feature/Setting: Price feed detection automates notification via REST/SOAP connector workflow.
  

15. Shopify

• Feature/Setting: API webhook on product cost update; automatedly triggers inventory/purchasing integrations.
  

16. Trello

• Feature/Setting: Automation (“Butler”) command on card/list update; automates card creation for procurement follow-up.
  

17. Monday.com

• Feature/Setting: Board automation (“When status changes”); automates message to channel/stakeholders.
  

18. PagerDuty

• Feature/Setting: API creates automated incident on critical price spike; real-time alerts to procurement team.
  

19. ServiceNow

• Feature/Setting: Price change record automation; workflow triggers procurement tasks or escalations.
  

20. Asana

• Feature/Setting: Rule automation creates task/alert for buyer action; comment notification automatedly generated.
  

21. Elasticsearch

• Feature/Setting: Indexes price fields; watches automates alerting using Elasticsearch Watcher on anomalous changes.
  

22. Discord

• Feature/Setting: Bot API automates DM or channel post when price webhook triggers.
  

23. Jira

• Feature/Setting: Automation on custom field update; creates automated ticket for procurement escalation.
  

24. Notion

• Feature/Setting: Database automation; triggers push/page update when API call posts price change.
  

Benefits

1. Automates supply chain responsiveness by immediate detection and notification.

2. Automatedly reduces manual data entry and risk of human error.

3. Ensures procurement always acts on the latest pricing, automating cost control.

4. Automator increases supplier negotiation leverage with instant visibility on cost trends.

5. Maintains automated audit trails and regulatory records for compliance.

6. Automates collaboration between teams and suppliers, streamlining decision-making.

7. Boosts overall efficiency and scalability via customizable automated workflows.