Purpose
1. Automate and streamline supplier delivery confirmation notifications for night market vendors to ensure real-time visibility, reduce communication lags, and optimize vendor inventory and stall readiness.
2. Provide automated alerts to stakeholders (vendors, management, logistics) when a supplier’s delivery is confirmed, automating the acknowledgement process and creating an auditable automation trail for compliance and reconciliation.
3. Enhance supplier coordination by automating records, escalations for delays, and status dashboards for night market operations.
Trigger Conditions
1. Supplier marks delivery as complete in their system or via a form/API.
2. Delivery personnel scan QR/barcode on arrival at the market.
3. Manual input by night market logistics operator to verify delivery.
4. Automated polling of integrated ERP or supplier management software for new delivery confirmations.
5. Scheduled checks on email inbox or messaging systems for delivery confirmation messages.
Platform Variants
1. Twilio SMS
- Feature/Setting: Automated SMS sending via DeliveryConfirmation API; configure webhook to trigger SMS on delivery event.
2. SendGrid Email API
- Feature/Setting: Automate sending confirmation emails using /mail/send endpoint; template ID for uniform messages.
3. Slack
- Feature/Setting: Automate Slack notification via Incoming Webhooks or chat.postMessage upon delivery confirmation event.
4. Microsoft Teams
- Feature/Setting: Automate Teams message via Connector or Graph API to alert vendor group channels.
5. Telegram Bot
- Feature/Setting: Automate Telegram bot sendMessage API with dynamic content triggered by supplier event.
6. WhatsApp Business API
- Feature/Setting: Automate WhatsApp template message using /messages endpoint for delivery notifications.
7. Google Chat
- Feature/Setting: Automate notification with Google Chat API webhooks linked to “Supplier Delivery Confirmed” events.
8. Trello
- Feature/Setting: Automate card creation/notification using Cards API for visibility into completed deliveries.
9. Airtable
- Feature/Setting: Automate record update or notification by listening to record change events in delivery table.
10. Google Sheets
- Feature/Setting: Automate row update or push notification via Apps Script when new delivery status is logged.
11. Salesforce
- Feature/Setting: Automate email/SMS/Chatter post via Process Builder on Deliveries object status update.
12. Zoho CRM
- Feature/Setting: Automate Workflow Rule for sending notification on Delivery Confirmation field update.
13. HubSpot
- Feature/Setting: Automate workflow to send email/internal alert on supplier delivery property update.
14. Shopify
- Feature/Setting: Automate Admin API webhook trigger for fulfillment event, send notification via Flow app.
15. SAP
- Feature/Setting: Automate SAP Cloud Platform Workflow to notify stakeholders on delivery confirmations.
16. Oracle Fusion
- Feature/Setting: Automate Oracle Integration Cloud to push notifications on purchase order receipt.
17. Monday.com
- Feature/Setting: Automate item status change notification for night market supply board automations.
18. Discord
- Feature/Setting: Automate bot message using Discord API webhook on supplier delivery confirmation.
19. Mailgun
- Feature/Setting: Automate transactional email delivery using Mailgun /messages API triggered by status update.
20. PagerDuty
- Feature/Setting: Automate incident or notification via PagerDuty Events API based on supply chain triggers.
Benefits
1. Automatedly ensures real-time updates to reduce human errors in vendor logistics management.
2. Automates documentation of all delivery confirmations for auditing and dispute resolution.
3. Automator reduces manual follow-ups, saving time and operational costs in night market supply chains.
4. Enables scalable communication automation as night market operations grow or involve more vendors.
5. Improves accountability by automating escalation paths for delayed or missed supplier deliveries.
6. Automating these notifications increases transparency and trust between vendors, suppliers, and management.