Reorder warnings with draft purchase orders
Watches stock in a small business ERP and warns early from past usage, before a threshold is crossed. It compares vendors on price, duties, delivery time and reliability, then prepares a purchase request that only becomes a draft order when a person presses the button.
What it does
- Reads stock levels and past usage from the ERP on a schedule
- Flags items that will run out before the next delivery, not just ones below a threshold
- Compares candidate vendors on price, taxes and duties, lead time and past reliability
- Writes a purchase request with the chosen vendor and the reasons the others lost
- Explains the request in plain words on request, with every number taken from the data, not the model
Your approval boundaries
Approval requiredThese actions always wait for your yes:
- Creating the draft purchase order, with the approver recorded
- Sending anything to a vendor
You decide what happens next.
More about this workflow
This setup is for operators and managers who keep the busywork moving. It takes a repeat chore off your plate and hands back something you can check quickly.
First, it reads stock levels and past usage from the ERP on a schedule. Next, it flags items that will run out before the next delivery, not just ones below a threshold. Then it compares candidate vendors on price, taxes and duties, lead time and past reliability. After that, it writes a purchase request with the chosen vendor and the reasons the others lost. Finally, it explains the request in plain words on request, with every number taken from the data, not the model. It works with your accounting app and chat, each on its own login with limited access.
You get the prep work done and waiting for you. The agent stops and asks for your yes before creating the draft purchase order, with the approver recorded and sending anything to a vendor, and says plainly if a step cannot be undone.
“Nothing is ordered until a person presses Create order”
Explore required tools and model recommendations
Tools and access
QuickBooks
Handles the accounting app part of this job. Grant accounting data, no payments.
API required: Yes. Needs an Intuit developer app with OAuth.
Slack
Handles the chat part of this job. Grant a bot token in the channels it needs.
API required: Yes. Needs a Slack app created in your workspace. It gets a bot token with the scopes you approve.
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Model recommendations
Best pick
GPT-6.1 Sol
Cheap cached input suits jobs that rerun the same instructions each week.
$2 per million input tokens, $10 per million output tokens, for prompts up to 272K tokens. Longer prompts cost $4 in and $15 out.
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Cheaper backup
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite
Low cost for simple data pulls and matching.
$0.30 per million input tokens, $2.50 per million output tokens.
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Run your workflow
Connect your tools with only the access this setup needs, then follow these steps.
Steps
Do these in order. Test on old data before it touches live work.
- 1Connect QuickBooks with its own login, not yours. Grant accounting data, no payments.
- 2Connect Slack with its own login, not yours. Grant a bot token in the channels it needs.
- 3Paste the prompt where your harness takes instructions. See the note under the Copy button.
- 4Do a dry run on old or test data first. Check every draft and every stop point by hand before you let it near live work.
- 5Read its log after the first real run. Only widen access once a week of runs looks clean.
Safeguards and trust score
The score describes this example setup’s access, approval boundaries, ability to undo changes, and scope.
Can draft things that send or spend, so it sits close to risky actions.
Waits for a yes on: creating the draft purchase order, with the approver recorded, sending anything to a vendor.
Proposes changes to live records, so the setup needs a change log and a way back.
Runs on its own login across 2 tools. Fewer connections means a smaller blast radius.
How to raise it
- Access: Take away its ability to send, post or spend. Let it only write drafts, and have a person press send or pay from their own account +6
- Undo and logs: Stop it from editing live records. Have it write the change as a proposal you apply, and keep a log of every change with a way to roll it back +3
- Scope: Run it on one tool only, with its own login that can see just what this job needs +2
Do all of these to reach 91, up from 80.
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