Heatwave stock alert for my outlets
When a heatwave is coming, stock advice for your outlets on WhatsApp.
What it does
Every morning: the 5-day forecast at your key outlets, and when a heatwave is coming, stock advice from xMap AI to your reps on WhatsApp and to the planner by email.
In one sentence: Every day at 05:30, take your table, get the 5-day weather forecast, keep those where max temperature ≥ 44, write a summary of each with xMap AI, then send message in WhatsApp Business and email the list to you.
Why it is useful
A heatwave empties shelves of water and cold drinks. Outlets stocked early sell more and do not run out.
Who it is for
FMCG & distribution field sales. Distributors and consumer brands whose reps cover outlets: new shops, routes, channels and stock. Every use case for fmcg & distribution
Best use cases
- A water brand
- A soft drinks distributor
- An ice cream brand
What each run gives you
- A WhatsApp to reps
- An email to the planner
The time it saves
Every day at 05:30. Doing the same work by hand takes about 30 minutes each time; it runs about 30 times a month, so it saves about 15 hours a month (an estimate). It is medium: 7 blocks.
The flow, block by block
- Every morningTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
- My key outletsYour data · My dataBrings in a table you uploaded or a list you saved on the My data page: your stores, customers, target accounts or sites.
- Forecast for 5 daysxMap data · Weather forecastThe weather forecast (Open-Meteo, from national weather services) for up to 16 days: temperature, rain, wind and UV.
- Heatwave comingLogic · FilterKeeps only the items that match a rule.
- Stock advicexMap AI · xMap LLMTell the AI what to do in plain words.
- Tell the repsApp · WhatsApp BusinessSend text, media and template messages from your WhatsApp Business number.
- Email me the listAction · EmailSends one email per run with all the items, or one email per item.
Every block can be changed after you use the template: the city, the type of place, the score, where the results go.
Use it now
Answer a few questions, enter your work email, and it runs in your own account, kept running until you pause it. Use this template.
How to set it up
- Build your first flow in ten minutes: From a blank page to a flow that emails you a ranked list every morning.
- Enrich a list once: A CSV of addresses or companies back with phone, website, rating and an AI score.
- Weather forecast: Up to 16 days for each place or city.
- Your own tables and lists (My data): Upload a CSV, save lists of results, and use them in flows.
- Location intelligence: Using where things are, and what is around them, to make business decisions.
- How to find new businesses in a city every morning: A daily list of newly listed businesses of a type, ranked, in your inbox.
- POI data (points of interest): Records of places such as shops, clinics and offices, with their category, position and details.
More for FMCG & distribution field sales
- New outlets, graded and routed to each rep: New outlets graded, researched and routed to the nearest rep, with what to pitch at each.
- Hotels and restaurants to supply, researched: Hotels, restaurants and caterers matched to your products, with the buyer, in HubSpot.
- New outlets to CRM: New restaurants and cafes as leads in your CRM every morning, with a brief for the reps.
- Neighbourhoods without a grocery store: Blocks where people live with almost no grocery store, biggest gaps first.
- New outlets on my routes, prioritised, to the nearest rep: New grocery outlets on your routes, each assigned to the nearest rep, every weekday.
- Monthly outlet census of my city: Every food outlet in your city, by channel, the ones not in your CRM, every month.