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Case study · 01 · a worked example

A supplier's email in. Live, priced, pictured products out.

The shape of a real one from my own shop, with the numbers filed off. A new-release email from a supplier becomes listed products — and the purchasing and the marketing fall out of the same run. Nobody re-keys a thing.

01

Grab the email

A supplier's new-release email lands in the inbox.

02

Spot what's new

Read it and pick out the products you don't already stock.

03

Gather the detail

Pull each product's information together from the web and your own databases.

Offshoot · off step 03 · Purchasing
A1

Forecast demand

Read past sales to predict what each new line will actually sell.

A2

Build the PO

Fold in cost prices and the purchasing budget to draft a purchase order.

A3

Review & send

You check it, then it goes to the supplier on its own.

04

Cost and price it

Apply your cost prices, margins and pricing rules automatically.

05

Publish

Ingest the finished products into the platform and push them live.

06

Find the images

Locate the product shots on the supplier's website.

07

Attach the images

Drop them onto the listings the moment they become available.

Offshoot · off step 07 · Marketing
B1

Read the signals

Product and image data point to what's worth pushing.

B2

Pick the channels

Line the new products up across the right marketing channels.

B3

Build the assets

Pull image and copy together into finished creative.

B4

Publish

Send it out across the channels.

Every arrow is a job nobody has to do by hand any more — and each one began as a line on a leak ledger like the one on the homepage. The audit is how we work out which of yours is worth drawing first.