Stock-out alerts in Slack: connecting a Slack app's incoming webhook
Create a Slack app, turn on incoming webhooks and get a message in your channel when a product runs out, from the daily stock check.
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Stock alerts
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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.
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.
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.
Stock-outs in PagerDuty: paging on-call when stock runs out
Open a PagerDuty incident when a product with a minimum level runs out, and test it without paging anyone. What the daily check does and does not do.
Email, Slack, Teams or PagerDuty: where should your stock alerts go?
What the stock alert email, Slack, Microsoft Teams and PagerDuty each carry in OpenBoxes Lift, and how to choose and combine them for your team.
