Waste and shrinkage tracking alerts

Purpose

1. Automate the real-time monitoring of wastage and shrinkage in food inventory, consumables, and supplies to minimize loss in Marathi cuisine restaurants.

2. Automates the process of generating predictive alerts when inventory fallouts, spoilage, unauthorized removals, or abnormal usage trends occur.

3. Enables management to act rapidly by automating notifications for shrinkage, spoilage, and waste events across procurement, storage, and kitchen operations.

4. Ensure regulatory and financial compliance through scheduled documentation and automated report generation regarding inventory discrepancies.

5. Improve operational efficiency by automating repetitive manual tracking, and offer actionable intelligence for loss prevention and inventory optimization.

Trigger Conditions

1. Inventory deviation exceeds predefined thresholds (weight/quantity loss, expiration, damage, etc.).

2. Automated detection of irregular consumption patterns or unauthorized withdrawals.

3. Scheduled inventory audits and reconciliations detect mismatches.

4. Temperature/humidity sensor API triggers for spoilage risk.

5. Automated system ingest of manual shrinkage logs or system error logs.

6. Supplier API notifies of short shipments or discrepancies.

Platform Variants

1. Twilio SMS

• Feature/Setting: Use Messages API; automates sending SMS alerts to managers on waste event triggers.
• Sample: POST /2010-04-01/Accounts/{AccountSid}/Messages.json with event variables.

2. SendGrid

• Feature/Setting: Automate email alerts using Mail Send API for shrinkage notifications.
• Sample: POST /v3/mail/send with template and variables.

3. Slack

• Feature/Setting: Use Incoming Webhooks for automated waste report channel posts.
• Sample: POST to webhook URL with JSON text.

4. Microsoft Teams

• Feature/Setting: Automator posts to channel via Incoming Webhooks for waste alerts.
• Sample: POST JSON card payload to Teams webhook.

5. Google Sheets

• Feature/Setting: Sheets API to automate log of shrinkage events in waste audit sheet.
• Sample: spreadsheets.values.append with event data.

6. Airtable

• Feature/Setting: Automate record creation in waste tracking table using Airtable API.
• Sample: POST /v0/{baseId}/{tableName} with fields.

7. SAP Business One

• Feature/Setting: Business Partner Alerts for inventory variance configured via Alert Management.
• Sample: Define Alert via SAP B1 Alert Management module.

8. Oracle Netsuite

• Feature/Setting: SuiteScript automation for generating tasks or alerts on waste triggers.
• Sample: Use nlapiCreateRecord for custom record automation.

9. Zoho Inventory

• Feature/Setting: Zoho automation for low stock/waste via Workflow Rules.
• Sample: Set workflow with Waste Detected trigger.

10. QuickBooks Online

• Feature/Setting: Use API to automate waste write-offs and send notification to managers.
• Sample: Create JournalEntry via API with shrinkage details.

11. Salesforce

• Feature/Setting: Flow Builder for automating waste event alerts to Chatter.
• Sample: Workflow rule with outbound email/notification action.

12. Freshdesk

• Feature/Setting: Automate ticket creation when abnormal wastage detected via API.
• Sample: POST /api/v2/tickets with alert details.

13. Power Automate (Microsoft)

• Feature/Setting: Automates workflows from sensor/API triggers to alerts or database updates.
• Sample: Trigger on HTTP request then Teams/Email action.

14. Zapier

• Feature/Setting: Automates workflow from inventory apps to Slack, Sheets, or SMS.
• Sample: Trigger new row in Google Sheets, action send SMS.

15. HubSpot

• Feature/Setting: Automating notification emails to stakeholders using Workflows.
• Sample: Create email sequence on Trigger event.

16. Trello

• Feature/Setting: Automate creation of shrinkage event cards in designated boards via API.
• Sample: POST new card API for each waste alert.

17. Asana

• Feature/Setting: Task automation for loss-prevention follow-ups from alerts.
• Sample: POST /tasks with alert info.

18. Monday.com

• Feature/Setting: Automates creation of tracking pulses when waste threshold is crossed.
• Sample: Use API to create pulse on event.

19. ServiceNow

• Feature/Setting: Automator triggers incident records on inventory shrinkage event.
• Sample: POST /api/now/table/incident.

20. Shopify (for restaurants with online orders)

• Feature/Setting: Inventory webhook automation triggers alert on fulfillment variance.
• Sample: Webhook listener on inventory_level/update.

Benefits

1. Automatedly reduce losses via real-time alerts and incident tracking.

2. Automates regulatory compliance by storing legal audit trails.

3. Automator improves operational speed with zero-lag notifications.

4. Automate reporting, minimizing manual errors in inventory counting.

5. Ensures staff accountability and automates corrective action workflows.

6. Data-driven insights from automation enable proactive decision-making and inventory optimization for Marathi restaurant operators.