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# Alerts

Alerts are Flowlity's exception-management mechanism. They flag products, orders, or situations that need your attention so you can focus on what matters instead of reviewing everything manually.

### Where alerts appear

Alerts surface in several places across the platform:

* **Analytics** — The Alerts section provides a consolidated view of all active alerts, helping you answer "will it be a good or bad week?"
* **Demand** — Filter the product list by alerts to find items with unusual demand patterns.
* **Planning** — Filter by alerts to spot products with projected stockouts or overstock situations.
* **Supply Orders** — Filter orders by alerts to identify orders that may need urgent attention (e.g. late deliveries, constraint violations).

### Alert types

Flowlity generates alerts based on different conditions:

* **Stockout risk** — Projected stock drops below the minimum safety stock level.
* **Overstock** — Projected stock exceeds the maximum target, tying up capital.
* **Demand anomaly** — Unusual demand patterns detected by the Demand Anomaly Agent.
* **Stockout response** — An order has been generated in response to a projected stockout, requiring review.
* **Data quality** — Issues flagged by the Data Quality Report in Analytics.

### Acting on alerts

Alerts are informational — they draw your attention to a product or order but don't change anything automatically. Typical actions include:

1. **Investigate** — Open the product detail view in Demand or Planning to understand the root cause.
2. **Adjust** — Modify the forecast, buffer policy, or order quantities as needed.
3. **Automate** — Create an automation scoped to an alert-filtered view to handle recurring patterns automatically.

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Combine alerts with automations to shift from reactive monitoring to proactive exception management.
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### Related pages

* [Analytics](/modules/analytics.md) — Consolidated alerts dashboard.
* [Demand](/modules/demand.md) — Alert-based filtering in demand views.
* [Planning](/modules/planning.md) — Alert-based filtering in planning views.
* [Supply Orders](/modules/supply-orders.md) — Alert-based filtering on orders.
* [KPIs](/concepts/kpis.md) — KPI columns that surface the metrics behind alerts.