How to Use Lots and Expiration Tracking

Use lot and expiration tracking to keep track of products with lot codes (like food, perishable items, cosmetics), track which customers receive each lot so that you can easily do product recalls, and to track expiration dates to ensure you are not sending out expired products.  

NOTE: Availbale quantity pushed to the store should be quanitity that has not expired. Quantity not pushed to the store should be expired products, product in non-sellable bins, and products that have hit the picking disabled period. 

How to Enable Lot and Expiration Tracking

To enable Lot and Expiration Tracking on your account, please contact partner@brandfoxllc.com so we can have this feature enabled for you.

Setting up Lot and Expiration Tracking

• Set up Lot Tracking settings by going to app.shiphero.com > My Account > Settings > Lot Tracking.

  
  

  

• Indicate the priority you would like inventory to be assigned to orders with one of the two options:
  • FEFO (First Expired First Out): This option is used to ensure that you are prioritizing inventory with the most recent expiration date to orders (for example, when shipping perishables)

  • FIFO (First In First Out): This option is used to ensure that you are prioritizing inventory based on the age in which it was received (for example, when shipping electronics) 

    
    

    

    
    

• Indicate the number of days that you want to disable picking before product expiration (to prevent expired products from being shipped to customers):

  
  

  

  
  
• Set up automated email reminders to receive a report about lots ready to expire (indicate email address).