**1. Purpose**
1. Automate real-time low stock alerts to management and suppliers, eliminating manual tracking.
2. Automating inventory monitoring to avoid stockouts and unplanned shortages for food and beverage items.
3. Automatedly trigger notification workflows for reordering and supplier engagement.
4. Automator-driven prevention of lost sales and menu unavailability due to low stock.
5. Facilitate proactive supply chain management through automation and digital visibility.
**2. Trigger Conditions**
1. Inventory level for any SKU drops below a configurable threshold.
2. Automated periodic checks or real-time event-based detection (e.g., every 30 minutes).
3. Manual override for urgent stock-out/critical item notification.
4. Integration trigger from POS or warehouse software via automation.
**3. Platform Variants**
1. Twilio SMS
• Feature/Setting: Automate sending SMS using Messaging API; configure recipient number, message template: “ALERT: [Item] stock low ([Qty] left).”
2. SendGrid
• Feature/Setting: Automate transactional email; set up template for low stock email alert, auto-fill inventory details.
3. Slack
• Feature/Setting: Automate sending channel notifications via Slack Incoming Webhook API; set channel, message format with stock data.
4. Microsoft Teams
• Feature/Setting: Automate adaptive card delivery via Teams connector; specify chat recipient, attach inventory metrics.
5. Discord
• Feature/Setting: Use Discord Bot API to automate alert messages to specific channels/accounts on low inventory event.
6. WhatsApp Business API
• Feature/Setting: Automate WhatsApp messaging using pre-approved templates, supplier/manager numbers, item info merge.
7. Telegram
• Feature/Setting: Automate alerts via Telegram Bot API; set chat ID and message for instant stock status.
8. PagerDuty
• Feature/Setting: Automate incident creation via Events API for critical stockouts, assign restaurant manager.
9. ServiceNow
• Feature/Setting: Automate ticket creation for low stock event, link to procurement process.
10. Shopify
• Feature/Setting: Automate webhook for low inventory items; set up notification email/supplier message.
11. WooCommerce
• Feature/Setting: Automate stock status updates with trigger to supplier email via REST API/webhooks.
12. QuickBooks Commerce
• Feature/Setting: Automate low stock report; API-based alerting to linked email or SMS.
13. Square
• Feature/Setting: Automate POS inventory low threshold trigger, send push/email to user group.
14. Google Sheets
• Feature/Setting: Automate low stock logger sheet update, trigger Google Chat alert upon condition met.
15. Outlook
• Feature/Setting: Automate email dispatch using Microsoft Graph API when low inventory detected.
16. Gmail
• Feature/Setting: Automate low stock alert via automated email draft/send through Gmail API.
17. SAP
• Feature/Setting: Automate delivery of low inventory notification via Fiori Launchpad, supplier integration.
18. Oracle NetSuite
• Feature/Setting: Automate workflow action triggering stock alert email/SMS via SuiteScript.
19. Salesforce
• Feature/Setting: Automate Case creation tied to Inventory object when threshold met, assign to supply team.
20. Zoho Inventory
• Feature/Setting: Automate notification rule setup for automated supplier/manager alert via Zoho’s webhook/API.
21. Monday.com
• Feature/Setting: Automate low stock board update and pulse notification with item details.
22. Asana
• Feature/Setting: Automate task generation for reordering in specific project sections, assign procurement.
**4. Benefits**
1. Automate reduction of manual checks and human oversight for stock.
2. Enable automatedly prompt decision-making by management via instant alerts.
3. Automator ensures timely supplier engagement for seamless replenishment.
4. Automation minimizes the risk of lost sales and stockouts.
5. Automated record-keeping and tracking for continuous inventory optimization.
6. Automating alert routing reduces communication gaps and operational friction.
Order & Inventory Management