NERDY HACKS · MONEY & BOOKKEEPING

Shop owner uploads inventory and sales reports to NotebookLM and gets a four-week purchase order

A business owner with 674 different items uploaded an inventory summary and the last four weeks of sales reports to NotebookLM and asked it to build a purchase order to cover the next four weeks.

TOOL USED

NotebookLM

SPOTTED ON

@AndriFuture · Mar 16, 2026

THEIR CLAIM

About 3 hours per purchase order

TL;DR

What did @AndriFuture use NotebookLM for?

A business owner with 674 different items uploaded an inventory summary and the last four weeks of sales reports to NotebookLM and asked it to build a purchase order to cover the next four weeks. They say it finished in seconds "with zero mistakes."

What they did

They exported two reports from their business: an inventory summary and a sales report covering the last four weeks. They uploaded both as sources in NotebookLM and asked it to make a purchase order big enough to last four weeks across all 674 items.

How it went

They say it finished in seconds "with zero mistakes."

"This normally takes me 3 hours to do manually."

— @AndriFuture

Worth knowing

  • It is one person's report. Check the quantities against your own stock counts, lead times and supplier minimums before sending an order. NotebookLM is now also called Gemini Notebook.

Try it yourself

Paste this into a chatbot, then add your own details underneath.

Using the inventory summary and the last 4 weeks of sales in these sources, make a purchase order that covers the next 4 weeks. For each item show current stock, average weekly sales, and the quantity to order. Skip items that already have more than 4 weeks of stock, and list any item where the numbers look odd.

Original post

See @AndriFuture's original post on X → (Mar 16, 2026)

Filed under Money & Bookkeeping hacks

Sources

  1. @AndriFuture on X, Mar 16, 2026 — the original post

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