Smart Alerts & Anomaly Radar
Two standing checks over your own data: alerts for operational conditions that need action now, and a radar for pricing and margin problems you would otherwise find in the monthly accounts.
Smart Alerts and the Anomaly Radar appear on the dashboard and on every insights page. They are not notifications you configure — they are computed checks over your live data, refreshed periodically, so the page answers "what needs attention" without anyone building a report.
Smart Alerts
| Alert | What it is telling you |
|---|---|
| Low stock items | Stock at or below its reorder point. Buy, or transfer from somewhere holding surplus. |
| Stockout risk (7-day coverage) | Items whose cover runs out within a week at recent consumption — earlier and more useful than low stock alone. |
| Overdue invoices | Customer money past due. Collections work. |
| Delayed purchase orders | Orders past their expected delivery. Chase the supplier before the shortage bites. |
| Pending adjustments | Stock corrections raised and not yet approved — stock the system knows is wrong and is waiting for you to confirm. |
| Margin risk items | Items whose pricing is eroding profit. |
Anomaly Radar
The radar looks specifically for pricing faults — the kind that are invisible per transaction and expensive in aggregate:
- Selling below cost — the sale price is under the cost. Every unit sold loses money.
- Thin margin pricing — technically profitable, too thin to survive a cost increase or a discount.
- Missing selling price — an item with no price set, which will either block a sale or be sold on a guess.
Which Is Which
Alerts are about operations — things to do today. The radar is about setup — data that is wrong and will keep producing bad outcomes until someone fixes the item. An alert clears when the work is done; a radar finding clears when the record is corrected.
Freshness And Refresh
Both are computed on a cycle rather than on every page view — that is what keeps the dashboard fast — so a condition you resolved a minute ago can still be listed. There is a refresh action for when you need the current picture. Empty is a legitimate result: no alerts means no conditions matched, not a broken page.
Turning A Signal Into Action
Alerts point at work; they do not do it. Low stock leads to Request to PO or Stock Balancing; pending adjustments lead to Adjustments; overdue invoices lead to Invoices. To be told rather than to look, wire it through Notification Preferences.
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