Expiration Date Management

Track when product expires to protect your customer experience and allocated inventory by expiration to reduce waste.

WMS Feature Highlight

Simplify commerce operations with expiration date management.

Inventory management with perishable products using expiration dates ensures that the right products are sent out of the warehouse and that there is no waste due to what order your inventory is used.

Our warehouse management system automates blocking expiring products, allocating based on expiration dates, and more.

Expiration Date Management

‍Ensure Quality– Product expiration date management keeps expired products from being used for order picking ensuring that fresh / quality products are sent out to your customers based on shelf life.

Prevent Product Waste– Inventory can be allocated using a first expire first out (FEFO) methodology so your oldest products are used first reducing the possibility of waste or products expiring on the shelf.

Sample Industry Use Cases

perishables, pharmaceutical, beauty, consumables

FEFO Means Less Waste

You can set certain products to first expire first out or FEFO to ensure that products are rotated out in a way that prevents waste.

This keeps these products from slowing down your general operational workflow, while still ensuring quality.

Protect Customer Experience

Our automated expiration date management rules keep expired products from being used and customers from receiving bad products.

We also track expiration dates of the products that are picked into order so the data is available for customer service.

Shelf Life Traceability

Products that have reached their expiration date or quality buffer are automatically blocked in your WMS.

This inventory can be placed into a holding area where you decide whether to destroy, donate, or use the products for some other purpose.

UNLIMITED

Products, SKUs, Users

$ BILLIONS

Order Value Shipped Yearly

10+ Years

in Ecommerce & Logistics

Frequently Asked Questions

Inventory and demand planning is an important part of daily operation so we have tried to make it as easy as possible in our order management system (OMS). Here are some common questions that our users have had when getting started.

How do you manage inventory expiration dates?

Perishable products need to be used before their manufacturer expiration date.

You can use a warehouse management system (like Shipedge) that tracks these

dates and uses the data to influence daily operations.

Inventory Allocation – allocating inventory using a first-expire first-out (FEFO)

methodology will ensure that products are not picked at random, which leads

to eventual product waste (due to expiration).

Expired Stock Retrieval – stock that is no longer of good quality should be automatically blocked and unavailable for use.

Expiration Date Outbound Tracking – in the case of a customer service incident related to product expiration/quality, order data should be used to determine if the products that we’re sent to the customer are within quality thresholds.

Why is it important to track expiration dates?

If expiration dates are not tracked in the event of a customer service issue related to product quality, your team should be able to provide additional information related to when the order was shipped and when the products in the order will expire. Advanced warehouse management systems (like Shipedge) are able to track and provide this data.

Is it hard to manage product by expiration dates?

Expiration date management is fairly simple given you are using the correct tools. An advanced warehouse management system (like Shipedge) will take your expiration date data and automatically influence your fulfillment and warehousing workflows to consider product quality.

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