Purpose
1.2. Automatedly reduces likelihood of stockouts affecting mission readiness or logistics continuity.
1.3. Triggers automatable notifications or procurement actions without manual intervention, optimizing efficiency and safety compliance.
1.4. Automating detection of low levels in inventory systems, allowing automated escalations to procurement or logistics teams for rapid response.
Trigger Conditions
2.2. Automates alerts based on predefined time intervals for stock checking.
2.3. Automates escalation for high-priority items that reach low levels.
2.4. Option for automated multi-level notification (individual, team, command) based on depletion severity.
Platform variants
• Feature/Setting: Automate SMS sending via Messages API; sample: configure POST /2010-04-01/Accounts/{AccountSid}/Messages.json when threshold reached.
3.2. SendGrid
• Feature/Setting: Automate alert emails with Mail Send API; sample: POST v3/mail/send with alert body when stock is low.
3.3. Microsoft Teams
• Feature/Setting: Automate message to a channel with Webhook connector; sample: POST JSON payload to Teams webhook URL.
3.4. Slack
• Feature/Setting: Automate Slack message via chat.postMessage API when item low; set up bot token and channel ID.
3.5. ServiceNow
• Feature/Setting: Automator creates incident ticket via Table API (POST /api/now/table/incident) on threshold breach.
3.6. SAP
• Feature/Setting: Automates triggering of Purchase Requisition via OData API /sap/opu/odata/sap/API_PURCHASEREQUISITION.
3.7. Oracle Cloud
• Feature/Setting: Triggers automated procurement workflow with REST API for Inventory Management, POST threshold details.
3.8. AWS Lambda
• Feature/Setting: Automate custom notifications or logic with Lambda function triggered by inventory event.
3.9. Power Automate
• Feature/Setting: Automate flow for stock threshold using ‘When a row is modified’ in Dataverse and send notification.
3.10. PagerDuty
• Feature/Setting: Automates incident trigger with Events API v2 when stock level event detected.
3.11. Google Chat
• Feature/Setting: Automate bot notification with Chat API to designated room.
3.12. Zendesk
• Feature/Setting: Automate creation of support ticket via Tickets API when threshold is reached.
3.13. BMC Remedy
• Feature/Setting: Automate creation of tasks using REST API POST /arsys/v1/entry/ with alert data.
3.14. Jira
• Feature/Setting: Automates creation of issue/ticket using POST /rest/api/2/issue when stock alert raised.
3.15. Outlook
• Feature/Setting: Automate sending email with Graph API POST /me/sendMail triggered by low inventory detection.
3.16. Freshdesk
• Feature/Setting: Automate alert or ticket via POST /api/v2/tickets on reaching threshold.
3.17. SysAid
• Feature/Setting: Automates incident creation using POST /api/v1/requests with inventory context.
3.18. SharePoint
• Feature/Setting: Automate logging of depleted items in a SharePoint list using Graph API POST /sites/{site-id}/lists/{list-id}/items.
3.19. IBM Maximo
• Feature/Setting: Automates automated work orders for replenishment with REST API POST /oslc/os/mxwo.
3.20. Salesforce
• Feature/Setting: Automates creation of Case or Task when threshold reached via REST API POST /services/data/vXX.X/sobjects/Case/.
Benefits
4.2. Automatedly improves supply chain resilience with real-time, automatable notifications.
4.3. Reduces manual workload by automating routine monitoring and alert escalation.
4.4. Automates data-driven decision making, boosting efficiency and mission readiness.
4.5. Automating error prevention via omni-channel, multi-tier notifications ensures no gaps in logistics continuity.
4.6. Automator platform variants ensure flexible, scalably-automated deployment across military facility infrastructure.