Competitor prices every week, not once a quarter
A pharmacy chain compared prices with competitors by hand once a quarter. We collect open prices on a schedule and show the changes.
This is a demo scenario: how we would build the solution. Names and data are illustrative — it is not a specific client’s story.
01Task
Task
See where our prices are above the market on key items, and learn about competitor promotions the same week.
Constraints
- Competitors name products differently from our catalogue.
- Only open data is collected, following each site’s rules.
02Solution
Solution
- 01
Scheduled collectors of open prices, keeping the history of every value.
- 02
Item matching to the catalogue: rules plus manual review of disputed matches.
- 03
A price-position dashboard and a change feed with alerts.
03Architecture
Architecture
- Open price sources → Collectors · schedule
- Own catalogue → Item matching
- Collectors · schedule → Item matching
- Item matching → Price history
- Price history → Price dashboard, Change alerts
- Price dashboard
- Change alerts