Inventory and Supplier ManagementPurpose
1.2. Automatically alert management when stock falls below pre-set thresholds to ensure timely reordering.
1.3. Prevent out-of-stock scenarios affecting order fulfillment and minimize lost sales in the restaurant.
1.4. Centralize alerting through multiple communication channels for rapid managerial action.
1.5. Support compliance with health and safety by ensuring critical supplies are always available.
Trigger Conditions
2.2. Scheduled daily or hourly inventory scans detecting threshold breaches.
2.3. Manual inventory adjustment or stock-taking events reflecting shortage.
2.4. Supplier delays or order disruptions flagged and mapped to at-risk inventory items.
Platform Variants
• Feature/Setting: Incoming Webhooks; configure webhook URL and format payload as alert message.
3.2. Microsoft Teams
• Feature/Setting: Teams Connector; set channel integration and post adaptive card with alert details.
3.3. Twilio SMS
• Feature/Setting: SMS API; set recipient number and payload as low stock message with item and level.
3.4. SendGrid
• Feature/Setting: Email API; prepare transactional email template and set dynamic fields for inventory data.
3.5. Gmail
• Feature/Setting: Gmail API ‘send’; configure to dispatch preformatted low stock emails to management group.
3.6. Outlook
• Feature/Setting: Microsoft Graph ‘sendMail’; compose structured email alert with inventory breach info.
3.7. WhatsApp Business API
• Feature/Setting: Message endpoint; set recipient and template-based item shortage notification.
3.8. Zendesk
• Feature/Setting: Ticket Creation API; open ticket tagged ‘inventory alert’ with trigger details for follow-up.
3.9. Asana
• Feature/Setting: Task Creation API; create task ‘Restock [Item]’ in management project with due date.
3.10. Trello
• Feature/Setting: Card Creation via API; add card to dedicated ‘Urgent Restock’ list including stock info.
3.11. Monday.com
• Feature/Setting: API ‘create_item’; generate pulse/task with embedded low inventory alert details.
3.12. PagerDuty
• Feature/Setting: Events API v2; trigger incident for supply chain, escalate as major alert.
3.13. ServiceNow
• Feature/Setting: Import Set API; log incident/ticket ‘stock shortage’ for inventory workflow escalation.
3.14. Salesforce
• Feature/Setting: Process Builder/Flow + Email Alert; trigger notification from inventory object event.
3.15. Zoho Inventory
• Feature/Setting: Notification Rule; configure rule for minimum stock and automatic management emails.
3.16. QuickBooks
• Feature/Setting: Inventory List API; script to monitor stock and email/Slack management on low alert.
3.17. Google Sheets
• Feature/Setting: Apps Script ‘onEdit’ trigger; trigger alert email/SMS via script if low threshold breached.
3.18. Smartsheet
• Feature/Setting: Alert Rules & API Automation; push ‘inventory critical’ notifications to stakeholders.
3.19. Shopify
• Feature/Setting: Inventory Levels API ‘connectWebhook’; send alert when Afghan cuisine product low.
3.20. SAP Business One
• Feature/Setting: Alert Management; configurable alert rule for inventory items, dispatch emails.
Benefits
4.2. Accelerates manager response and vendor reordering process.
4.3. Lowers operational disruption, improves planning, and guest satisfaction.
4.4. Maintains inventory health in compliance with food safety guidelines.
4.5. Enables scalable, channel-agnostic, real-time alert system for growing restaurant operations.