Automated Inventory Optimization Workflow
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This workflow automates the identification and potential disabling of products with zero sales over the past year. It streamlines inventory management by flagging underperforming items for review, helping to optimize stock levels and reduce carrying costs.
About This Workflow
This n8n workflow is designed to proactively manage your e-commerce inventory by identifying products that haven't sold in the last 12 months. It begins by scheduling a monthly check, fetching order data to determine which product SKUs have been sold. Simultaneously, it retrieves all available product SKUs from your system. By comparing these two lists, the workflow isolates products with no recent sales. These potentially obsolete items are then presented for an approval process via email, allowing for a swift decision on whether to disable them. Upon approval, the workflow proceeds to update the product status, ensuring your inventory remains lean and efficient.
Key Features
- Scheduled Inventory Audits: Automatically runs a monthly check to ensure up-to-date inventory analysis.
- Data-Driven Product Performance: Leverages actual sales data to identify underperforming SKUs.
- Automated Approval Process: Facilitates a quick decision-making loop for disabling products.
- Streamlined Product Status Updates: Efficiently updates product status in your e-commerce platform upon approval.
- Optimized Inventory Management: Reduces costs associated with holding obsolete or slow-moving stock.
How To Use
- Schedule Trigger: Configure the workflow to run at your desired frequency (e.g., monthly). The current setting triggers at 8 AM.
- Calculate Date: The 'Calculate date an year ago (ISO)' node automatically sets the date for fetching historical orders.
- Fetch Orders: Connect to your e-commerce API (e.g., Magento) to retrieve all orders placed within the past year.
- Extract Sold SKUs: Process the fetched order data to create a unique list of SKUs that have been sold.
- Get All Product SKUs: Fetch all available product SKUs from your e-commerce platform.
- Filter Products NOT Sold: Compare the list of all product SKUs against the list of sold SKUs to identify those with zero sales.
- Email Approval: Use the 'Gmail User for Approval' node to send an email to a designated approver, listing the unsold products and requesting a decision.
- Conditional Logic: The 'If1' and 'Merge' nodes manage the workflow based on the approval status received from the email.
- Disable Products: If approved, the 'Disable Products' node (using an HTTP PUT request) updates the status of the identified products in your e-commerce system.
Apps Used
Workflow JSON
{
"id": "4489eb92-804d-499a-863b-040970a88b2e",
"name": "Automated Inventory Optimization Workflow",
"nodes": 27,
"category": "Operations",
"status": "active",
"version": "1.0.0"
}Note: This is a sample preview. The full workflow JSON contains node configurations, credentials placeholders, and execution logic.
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