The daily stock-alert email: set minimums first
The daily stock alert email only checks products with a minimum level for being low. Which minimums to set first, how to turn it on and what it sends.
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News, how-to articles and the monthly What's new from the OpenBoxes Lift team.
Catching stock-outs before the clinic does: a daily routine
A short daily check for store managers: what is at zero, what is below minimum, what is on order, and how OpenBoxes Lift can email it to you each morning.
Expiring stock: redistribute, return or write off, and how to decide in time
Work out whether a lot will be used before it expires, then choose between redistributing, returning to the supplier or writing it off, in OpenBoxes.
FEFO explained: first-expiry, first-out for medical supplies
What first-expiry, first-out means, worked examples of why it beats FIFO for dated stock, where it cannot help, and how OpenBoxes suggests lots by FEFO.
Lot numbers at receipt: make a recall a search, not a hunt
What to record when medical supplies arrive (lot number, expiry, quantity per lot, bin) and how to find a recalled lot in OpenBoxes quickly.
Stock-out alerts in Microsoft Teams with a Workflows webhook
Old Teams connector URLs are refused. Create a Workflows webhook and get a card in your channel when a product runs out, from the daily stock check.
Setting min and max levels from average monthly consumption
Set minimum, reorder and maximum stock levels from average monthly consumption, lead time and review period, with a worked example for OpenBoxes.
Months of stock: how to calculate it and read a low number
How to calculate months of stock from average monthly consumption, adjust for stock-out days, read it against min and max levels, and find it in Lift.
Moving a self-hosted OpenBoxes to Lift: what comes across
Moving a self-hosted OpenBoxes to OpenBoxes Lift: what you hand over, what comes across, what does not, what happens to passwords, and planning the switch.
OpenBoxes backups: what to back up and how to test a restore
How to back up a self-hosted OpenBoxes database, how often, how to prove a restore works, and what OpenBoxes Lift backs up on Shared and Dedicated.
