Inventory & Supply Chain AutomationPurpose
1.2. Automate notifications to kitchen staff and managers before ingredient expiration to prevent waste.
1.3. Automate compliance with food safety regulations by providing automated audit trails of inventory disposals and usage.
1.4. Enable automated forecasting of ingredient usage for purchasing, automating restocking and minimizing spoilage.
1.5. Automate team coordination with timely expiration alerts through multiple channels to reduce manual oversight.
Trigger Conditions
2.2. Inventory scan: Automated recognition of expiring items via barcode/RFID/NFC scan.
2.3. POS integration: Automatedly flagging ingredients associated with slow-moving menu items nearing expiry.
2.4. Manual input: Staff logs next expected expiration via automated mobile/web forms.
Platform Variants
• Feature/Setting: SMS Notification; automate ingredient expiration alerts to staff numbers.
• Sample: Configure SMS flow with ingredient name, expiry date, storage location details.
3.2. SendGrid
• Feature/Setting: Automated Email Notification; automate expiration alerts to managers’ inbox.
• Sample: Send templated HTML emails listing ingredients, expiry, and next actions.
3.3. Slack
• Feature/Setting: Slack Channel Alerts; automate ingredient expiration notifications to kitchen channel.
• Sample: Integration posting automated alert with ingredient details and deadlines.
3.4. Microsoft Teams
• Feature/Setting: Automated Teams chat notifications to kitchen group.
• Sample: Automated Teams bot posts daily list of expiring ingredients.
3.5. Google Sheets
• Feature/Setting: Automated data logging of expiration events; automate expiration row highlighting.
• Sample: Use Apps Script to highlight rows for soon-to-expire ingredients.
3.6. Airtable
• Feature/Setting: Automated record status updates, expiry reminders to Automations.
• Sample: Configure automations to trigger records when expiration date is near.
3.7. Trello
• Feature/Setting: Automated card creation in “Check Expiration” list.
• Sample: Automatically create Trello cards for each critical ingredient close to expiry.
3.8. Notion
• Feature/Setting: Automated notification database; automate reminders as Notion notifications.
• Sample: Database view filtered by “expiring soon” status for ingredients, automate reminders.
3.9. Monday.com
• Feature/Setting: Automated item status updates and deadline automations for expiring ingredients.
• Sample: Configure automations to mark “urgent” when expiration is 2 days away.
3.10. Asana
• Feature/Setting: Automated task creation for expiring ingredients, set due date reminder.
• Sample: Automated creation of Asana tasks titled "Check Ingredient Expiry".
3.11. Basecamp
• Feature/Setting: Automated message posting in project group.
• Sample: Schedule automated Basecamp pings when expiration threshold is reached.
3.12. Smartsheet
• Feature/Setting: Automated reminders and conditional formatting for expiry warnings.
• Sample: Automatedly send update requests to responsible user when expiry threshold hit.
3.13. Zoho Inventory
• Feature/Setting: Automated batch tracking and expiry notifications.
• Sample: Set workflow rule to trigger alert on batch nearing expiry.
3.14. Square POS
• Feature/Setting: Integrated inventory expiry alert automation.
• Sample: Configure automated backend webhook for expiring item popups at register.
3.15. Shopify
• Feature/Setting: Inventory API webhook triggers for expiry automation.
• Sample: Automated webhook triggers notification on product expiry in inventory.
3.16. QuickBooks
• Feature/Setting: Automated inventory quantity and expiry update reminders.
• Sample: Set automatic scheduler for ingredient expiry review task.
3.17. SAP Business One
• Feature/Setting: Automated inventory alerts and workflow notification module.
• Sample: Preconfigured workflows for ingredient batch expiry alerts.
3.18. Oracle NetSuite
• Feature/Setting: Automated workflows, email/screen expiry notifications on inventory lots.
• Sample: Scheduled workflow triggers for notification on expiring ingredient lot.
3.19. Mailgun
• Feature/Setting: Automated transactional email API for inventory alerts.
• Sample: Automatedly draft and send email alerts on expiry via API endpoint.
3.20. Pushover
• Feature/Setting: Automated mobile push notification to staff devices.
• Sample: Automatedly push instant notification to targeted staff group for urgent expiry warning.
Benefits
4.2. Automatedly minimizes food waste, saving costs via real-time, automated alerts.
4.3. Increases staff productivity by automating manual checks and communication.
4.4. Improves coordination—automated system ensures every team member is alerted in their preferred channel.
4.5. Scalable—automation supports expansion to multiple locations with centralized expiry control.
4.6. Enables automated, data-driven decisions for procurement and discounting soon-to-expire stock.