Payback in 4.5 Months

The Problem

BOVO manages inventory across Amazon EU and Bol.com — two platforms with different listing formats, pricing rules, and stock pools. Every time a supplier delivered new stock or a sale happened on one platform, their team had to manually update the other.

Worse: supplier requests for quotes (RFQs) arrived by email and had to be retyped into a spreadsheet, checked against current margins, and replied to manually. The team was spending hours every day on data entry — not on growing the business.

The Solution

We built two n8n workflows that ran on triggers, not schedules:

• Cross-platform inventory sync — when stock updates on Amazon, Bol.com listing adjusts automatically. No manual re-entry. No oversells.
• Supplier RFQ pipeline — inbound emails are parsed, matched against margin rules, and formatted into a response draft. One click to send or adjust.

Both workflows were built in n8n — BOVO's team now owns and can edit them without depending on us. That's the Handover-First Framework in practice.

The Results

Metric	Before	After
Inventory sync time (daily)	45 minutes	~0 (automated)
Supplier RFQ processing	30–60 min per quote	Draft in 90 seconds
Cross-platform oversell incidents	3–5 per month	0
Payback period	4.5 months

What BOVO Said

"We'd been burned by automation promises before. AgentleConsulting actually handed us the workflows and showed us how to change them. The inventory sync alone saved us from at least two oversell incidents in the first month."

Key Takeaways

• Cross-platform selling doesn't require a €50k platform — it requires the right workflow design
• n8n gives you ownership without lock-in
• Supplier RFQ automation converts a manual bottleneck into a repeatable, auditable process
• Payback in under 6 months makes the economics easy to justify internally