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How to set up Stock Monitoring

Learn how to monitor your stocks

Monitor Stocks

  1. Open the BOX ID software. 
  2. Select Stocks from the menu 
  3. Click on the stock you want to monitor.  
  4. To be notified about a stock even if you are not logged into the system, click + Create Monitoring in the area Monitorings
  5. Select one of the following criteria for monitoring from Condition.
  6. Select the Severity (Warning, Critical) and add a suitable message to the monitoring in the field Description
    NOTE: You will find this information again if you go to the overview of a stock and click on Alerts in the Details area. 
  7. Click Add Action to select how notifications are forwarded. You can choose from the following options:
    1. E-mail 
      NOTE: When choosing e-mails, at least the field Recipients must be filled in, although it is recommended to also enter the fields Subject and Content
    2. Webhook
    3. Several e-mails and webhooks can be defined, also in combination. 
  8. To start the monitoring, click Save

Monitoring Conditions

Vacancy A message is sent as soon as an asset is in the stock. 
Understock A message is sent as soon as the number of assets in the stock falls below the defined minimum number.
Overstock A message is sent as soon as the defined maximum number of assets in the stock is exceeded.
Minimum Duration A message is sent as soon as an asset leaves the stock before its minimum duration time has expired. The minimum duration can be specified in minutes, hours or days.
Maximum Duration A message is sent as soon as an asset is still in stock when its maximum duration time has expired. The maximum duration can be specified in minutes, hours or days. 

Change Stocks - Monitoring 

  1. To edit a monitoring task, hover over the item and click on the cogwheel icon that appears on the right side.
  2. You can make the following changes to the existing monitoring task: 
    1. Modify condition 
    2. Modify severity and description 
    3. Modify existing actions as well as add or delete actions  
  3. To exit, you have the following options. 
    1. Click Cancel to end editing without saving. 
    2. Delete removes the monitoring and ends the editing mode. 
    3. Use Save to keep the changes.