Scheduled inventory count reminders

**Purpose**

1.1. Automate the process of sending scheduled inventory count reminders to staff, ensuring regular and accurate stock checks for ingredients and supplies.
1.2. Automate reminders to reduce manual oversight, standardize periodic checks, improve accuracy, mitigate stockouts or overstock, and ensure compliance with food safety and supplier contracts.
1.3. Automatedly optimize staff workload by evenly distributing count tasks and integrating automated follow-ups.
1.4. Centralize all reminder data, allowing for automated analysis and reporting of inventory count compliance and trends.

**Trigger Conditions**

2.1. Automatedly triggered based on a pre-defined schedule (daily, weekly, monthly, or custom intervals).
2.2. Automation triggers include anomalous threshold flags, last inventory count logged, or whenever inventories reach critical lows.
2.3. Manual override to activate or suspend automated reminders.
2.4. Integration with holiday or event calendars to adjust automated schedules.

**Platform Variants**

3.1. Twilio SMS
• Feature/Setting: Automate reminder message via Programmable SMS API. Sample config: Schedule POST requests to Twilio endpoint with staff numbers and message body.
3.2. SendGrid
• Feature/Setting: Automate inventory email reminders using SendGrid’s Mail Send endpoint; configure template ID, dynamic sender, and recipient list.
3.3. Microsoft Outlook
• Feature/Setting: Automate sending calendar invites or scheduled email tasks via Outlook REST API “createEvent” or “sendMail”.
3.4. Google Calendar
• Feature/Setting: Automate event creation by POSTing to Calendar API /calendars/events endpoint for scheduled reminders.
3.5. Slack
• Feature/Setting: Automate scheduled messages to inventory channel using chat.scheduleMessage API.
3.6. Telegram
• Feature/Setting: Automate bot reminders via sendMessage method with scheduled cron job triggers.
3.7. WhatsApp Business API
• Feature/Setting: Automate sending templated notification messages using /messages endpoint on a schedule.
3.8. Microsoft Teams
• Feature/Setting: Automate scheduled chat messages or adaptive cards via Teams Graph API.
3.9. Discord
• Feature/Setting: Automate reminder bots with scheduled POSTs to webhook endpoints.
3.10. Jira
• Feature/Setting: Automate ticket assignment or comments using Issue Create & Edit APIs for inventory count tasks.
3.11. Asana
• Feature/Setting: Automate task creation with the /tasks endpoint and custom reminders via due_at parameter.
3.12. Trello
• Feature/Setting: Automate card creation and scheduled comments via the Cards API and Actions endpoint.
3.13. Monday.com
• Feature/Setting: Automate notification pulses using API v2 “create_notification”.
3.14. Notion
• Feature/Setting: Automate page/database reminders utilizing the Notion API with scheduled database item creation.
3.15. HubSpot
• Feature/Setting: Automate workflow triggers to send scheduled internal emails via Workflows API.
3.16. Zoho CRM
• Feature/Setting: Automate scheduled tasks with Zoho’s Scheduler & email notification settings via API.
3.17. Salesforce
• Feature/Setting: Automate Task or Event creation in Salesforce using REST API’s /services/data/vXX.X/sobjects/Task/.
3.18. Pipedrive
• Feature/Setting: Automate activity creation with the /activities POST endpoint including custom reminder times.
3.19. Airtable
• Feature/Setting: Automate record creation for inventory reminders, integrating scheduled automations and notifications.
3.20. ClickUp
• Feature/Setting: Automate recurring task creation and scheduled notifications via ClickUp API /task endpoint.
3.21. Freshdesk
• Feature/Setting: Automate ticket creation for reminder tasks through Tickets API on schedule.
3.22. Wrike
• Feature/Setting: Automate task reminders with Timelog or Task API and scheduled notification automations.
3.23. Zendesk
• Feature/Setting: Automate ticket creation for reminders, utilizing /api/v2/tickets and scheduled triggers.
3.24. Intercom
• Feature/Setting: Automate in-app message reminders using the Conversations API with scheduled triggers.

**Benefits**

4.1. Automates routine reminders, reducing manual errors and missed counts.
4.2. Enhances compliance and consistency through automated scheduling.
4.3. Optimizes operational efficiency with centralized automation and reporting.
4.4. Automating notification escalations ensures accountability and transparency.
4.5. Increases staff productivity by automating repetitive reminder tasks.
4.6. Strengthens supplier relationships by ensuring accurate, automated stock communication.
4.7. Supports automatable real-time decision-making via analytics integration.