About This Automation
Supplier price change management involves reading incoming supplier notices, retyping updated costs into spreadsheets, and recalculating margin on every affected item by hand. This manual chain is slow and error prone, and delays in manager approval leave sales quoting outdated numbers for days.
The automated version extracts new prices directly from supplier notices, recalculates margin impact instantly, and routes only meaningful changes for approval. Approved prices flow straight into system records while sales and audit logs update without manual effort.
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How The Automation Works
The full workflow, from trigger to completion.
Is monitored for messages from known supplier domains that include a price list attachment.
The Price Notice Intake pulls every SKU, new price, and effective date from the attachment.
The Margin Impact compares new prices against the current list and, flagging SKUs where margin erosion exceeds 5%.
When erosion exceeds the threshold, sends the purchasing manager the flagged SKUs and impact figures for a decision.
The Price Update applies approved cost and sell prices directly to the SKU records.
The updated price list is posted to the sales channel the moment the ERP record changes.
The change, its effective date, and the source notice are written audit log.
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