Automated stock-in and stock-out notifications

**Purpose**

1.1 Automates real-time stock-in and stock-out notifications for herbal inventory, ensuring accurate records, minimized shortages or overstock, and driving timely procurement in retail herbal healthcare environments.
1.2 Supports seamless herbal inventory management, reduces human error, automates communication to suppliers, warehouse, and staff, and strengthens product traceability for compliance within the healthcare sub-industry.
1.3 Provides instant automated alerts for low stock, restocking, and overstock events, allowing proactive supply chain actions and customer satisfaction assurance.

**Trigger Conditions**

2.1 Automated when inventory levels reach user-defined minimum or maximum thresholds.
2.2 Automates upon stock-in events (goods received/added to inventory).
2.3 Automates upon stock-out events (sales, expiry, wastage removal).
2.4 Automated manual adjustments by inventory managers.

**Platform Variants**

3.1 **Twilio SMS**
- Feature/Setting: Automates SMS alerts for stock changes.
- Configuration: Use Twilio API with POST /Messages endpoint; set triggers from inventory management system.

3.2 **SendGrid Email**
- Feature/Setting: Automates email notifications on threshold breaches.
- Configuration: SendGrid Mail API; automate payload with inventory item details.

3.3 **Slack**
- Feature/Setting: Automates Slack channel messages for inventory events.
- Configuration: Slack Incoming Webhooks; map inventory event data to webhook payload.

3.4 **Microsoft Teams**
- Feature/Setting: Automates Teams chat notifications for supply chain stakeholders.
- Configuration: Microsoft Teams Incoming Webhook URL; connect inventory automation triggers.

3.5 **Shopify**
- Feature/Setting: Automates stock update notifications in admin/back-office apps.
- Configuration: Shopify Admin API InventoryLevel webhook trigger.

3.6 **Salesforce**
- Feature/Setting: Automates workflow email/SMS alerts for inventory objects.
- Configuration: Salesforce Process Builder or Flow; trigger on Inventory__c changes.

3.7 **Zoho Inventory**
- Feature/Setting: Automates in-app and email alerts for stock changes.
- Configuration: Zoho Inventory API, or Rules for Low Stock alert.

3.8 **Google Sheets**
- Feature/Setting: Automates email/SMS with Apps Script on sheet value change.
- Configuration: Apps Script “onEdit” or “onChange” trigger evaluating stock levels.

3.9 **Mailgun**
- Feature/Setting: Automates transactional emails for inventory events.
- Configuration: Mailgun Messages API; automate with dynamic templates.

3.10 **Discord**
- Feature/Setting: Automates Discord channel alerts for team notifications.
- Configuration: Discord Webhook URL; automate POST payload with stock data.

3.11 **SAP Business One**
- Feature/Setting: Automates email/SMS notifications using Alerts Management.
- Configuration: SAP Alert Management; trigger on Inventory Transfer/Adjustment logs.

3.12 **Oracle NetSuite**
- Feature/Setting: Automates SuiteFlow workflow actions on inventory change.
- Configuration: NetSuite SuiteScript or Workflow triggering notification actions.

3.13 **Microsoft Power Automate**
- Feature/Setting: Automates multi-channel notifications; sync with inventory data source.
- Configuration: Power Automate flow triggers on stock database update.

3.14 **WhatsApp Business API**
- Feature/Setting: Automates WhatsApp alerts for suppliers or internal teams.
- Configuration: WhatsApp Cloud API - /messages endpoint; automate payload with stock data.

3.15 **Pushover**
- Feature/Setting: Automates mobile push notifications for managers.
- Configuration: Pushover API; automate message payload when threshold reached.

3.16 **PagerDuty**
- Feature/Setting: Automates critical incident alerts for supply chain emergencies.
- Configuration: PagerDuty Events API v2; automate triggers upon out-of-stock.

3.17 **HubSpot**
- Feature/Setting: Automates emails or workflows for supplier communications.
- Configuration: HubSpot Workflows with webhook-based triggers.

3.18 **Trello**
- Feature/Setting: Automates card creation/updates on inventory events.
- Configuration: Trello API - /cards endpoint; automate from inventory trigger.

3.19 **Zendesk**
- Feature/Setting: Automates ticket creation for urgent stock issues.
- Configuration: Zendesk API Tickets endpoint; automate with item details.

3.20 **Asana**
- Feature/Setting: Automates task assignments on stock disruptions.
- Configuration: Asana API - /tasks endpoint; automate with relevant metadata.

**Benefits**

4.1 Automatedly reduces manual monitoring, automates timely responses to inventory fluctuations.
4.2 Automates supply chain transparency, ensures automatable compliance with healthcare regulations.
4.3 Automates scalability for multi-location herb shops within the retail herbal product industry.
4.4 Automator streamlines staff workload, automating focus on customer care and sales, preventing missed restocks.
4.5 Automates supplier relationship management by giving real-time updates, enhancing automatable reordering and forecasting.