Auto-generated daily material shortage report
- Problem
- Planners pull and format the same MRP report every morning.
- How it works
- n8n pulls ERP data on a schedule, summarizes shortages with an LLM, and emails/Teams-posts it.
- ROI / what to measure
- Daily time saved; earlier shortage visibility.
- Tools
- n8n, Microsoft Teams, ERP API
- Est. tool cost
- n8n self-host free
- Company size
- 10-200 employees
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Sources
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