Low stock alerts to kitchen management

Purpose

 1.1. Automatically notify kitchen management when ingredient stock falls below defined thresholds.
 1.2. Prevents stock-outs, ensures dish availability, and reduces manual tracking effort.
 1.3. Supports timely replenishment orders with less wastage in African cuisine restaurants.
 1.4. Integrates with POS, inventory, kitchen display systems, and communication channels.

Trigger Conditions

 2.1. Real-time inventory count drops below preset minimum levels.
 2.2. POS system records deduction from stock on ingredient sales/orders.
 2.3. Manual inventory adjustments indicating low stock.
 2.4. Scheduled or batch stock reconciliations identifying low quantities.

Platform Variants

 3.1. Twilio SMS
  • Feature/Setting: SMS API — configure webhook to send SMS alert to kitchen manager.
 3.2. SendGrid
  • Feature/Setting: Email API — set trigger for automatic low inventory email to staff.
 3.3. Slack
  • Feature/Setting: Incoming Webhooks — send notification to #kitchen-management channel.
 3.4. Microsoft Teams
  • Feature/Setting: Teams Bot Framework — post adaptive card alert in team channel.
 3.5. WhatsApp Business API
  • Feature/Setting: Automated templated message to kitchen group upon low stock trigger.
 3.6. Google Chat
  • Feature/Setting: Webhook — push alert message to specified chat room.
 3.7. Telegram Bot API
  • Feature/Setting: Bot sends direct kitchen management alerts with ingredient and quantity.
 3.8. PagerDuty
  • Feature/Setting: Incident Trigger API — raise low stock incident to relevant team.
 3.9. Zapier
  • Feature/Setting: Connect Inventory app triggers with email/SMS action steps.
 3.10. Shopify
  • Feature/Setting: Inventory Level API — webhook triggers notification integration.
 3.11. Square POS
  • Feature/Setting: Inventory Webhook — sends alert to endpoint on low stock event.
 3.12. Toast POS
  • Feature/Setting: Inventory Alerts — setup for automated kitchen notifications via preferred medium.
 3.13. Lightspeed
  • Feature/Setting: Low stock report with scheduled email automation.
 3.14. Oracle MICROS
  • Feature/Setting: API-triggered alerting via external communication or on-screen prompt.
 3.15. Monday.com
  • Feature/Setting: Automation recipes — when ingredient column < threshold, notify assigned person.
 3.16. Airtable
  • Feature/Setting: Automations — detect low count in base, email/SMS action.
 3.17. Notion
  • Feature/Setting: Database triggers with notification integration via third party service.
 3.18. Salesforce
  • Feature/Setting: Process Builder — auto-create task/alert on inventory object update.
 3.19. Odoo
  • Feature/Setting: Automated actions on stock move with email notification to kitchen managers.
 3.20. Microsoft Power Automate
  • Feature/Setting: Scheduled cloud flow to check inventory and send alert if threshold crossed.
 3.21. QuickBooks Commerce
  • Feature/Setting: Workflow rules to send notification on low stock items.
 3.22. Slackbot
  • Feature/Setting: Custom bot command for manual or triggered kitchen reminders.

Benefits

 4.1. Immediate visibility into stock levels, reducing risk of menu disruption.
 4.2. Streamlined communication between floor, POS, and kitchen.
 4.3. Reduced labor hours spent on inventory checks.
 4.4. Enhanced supplier planning and reduced emergency purchasing.
 4.5. Improved customer satisfaction by avoiding unlisted menu shortages.