Yes. 14 SKUs across six suppliers, including your logged-in prices

What does a real comparison run look like?

A facilities manager restocking consumables: 14 SKUs, six supplier sites, two of which show negotiated prices only after login. A companion works through the list and returns a sheet: SKU by supplier, unit price, bulk-break price, shipping cost, stock status, and a link per cell.

Minutes of machine work, one manual login where a supplier session had expired. The winner differed per SKU, which is the finding fifteen open tabs never quite produce. Mechanically this is extracting web data into a spreadsheet with price as the column.

Can it watch prices over time?

Yes, and the recurring version is the valuable one. A one-off comparison answers today’s purchase. A routine that re-runs the same sheet weekly answers when to buy, which supplier is drifting, and whether a competitor moved.

Scheduled runs re-pull the same sources, diff against last time, and surface the changes rather than the whole table. Competitor pricing is the business version, covered at how to automate competitor monitoring.

The cases that need a hand

Some large retailers show a human a page and an automation a challenge, so a companion flags those and you open that one tab yourself. Geo and per-account pricing mean the table is true for your location and your accounts, which for a purchasing decision is the truth you want.

Quote-based B2B pricing has no price on the page. There the job shifts to filling the quote request forms, which is form work, and compiling the responses when they land in your inbox.

Once the winner is picked

The table is the decision and the ordering is the next job.

A companion fills the supplier’s reorder form from the winning rows, or drafts the purchase request with the part numbers and quoted prices already in it.

Both stop on an approval card showing what is about to go out.

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