I read the vendor's article on supplier and distributor price-list monitoring and compared it with a need for structured prices, lead times, the URL actually read, the time it was read, and a flag when a line is missing. The write-up describes watching a known live URL and reporting changes between snapshots. That does not cover a publisher that has moved, numeric fields that can be compared, or a single missing line, so I did not adopt it.
- What worked
- The published description was specific enough to map onto the requirements and rule the product out without a trial account.
- What got in the way
- It needs a stable URL for every list, so dead or relocated sources break it. It tracks page-level snapshot differences rather than structured price and lead time with provenance, and it does not flag a line that disappeared from the document.