The Inventory Shelf Life app ensures products heading to customers and arriving from vendors will not expire for a defined number of days. It also prevents the picking and shipping of products that do not meet customers’ shelf life requirements, as well as the receiving of products that do not meet company shelf life requirements.

Types of Users

Sales Employees
Purchase Employees
Warehouse Floor Workers

Customer Needs

It is common practice to consider shelf life requirements while shipping items to customers and receiving items from vendors. Shelf life requirements normally vary between products, customers, raw materials and vendors.

Manufacturers and distributors need a way to ensure that the shelf life requirements of their customers are met during picking and shipping activities. By ensuring compliance with customers’ shelf life requirements, manufacturers and distributors can better avoid returned items and refusals to make payments by customers.

It is beneficial for food companies to ensure that their receiving activities comply with internal shelf life requirements. If they do not do so, they risk receiving items that do not meet their shelf life requirements, likely leading to the early expiration of their inventory.

Manufacturers and distributors who validate inbound and outbound activities against customized shelf life requirements prior to picking, shipping and receiving will greatly benefit from the reduced risk of customer dissatisfaction and inadequate inventory.

Key Features and Functionality

Customized shelf-life calculation date: With this feature, you can create shelf life codes for items, customers, vendors and combinations of item-customer and item-vendor, meeting corresponding unique shelf-life requirements.
Fully integrate with Business Central: Seamlessly integrates with warehouse activities.
Real-time validation: Ensures real-time shelf life validation to prevent picking, shipping, and receiving of products that do not meet shelf life requirements.

With the Inventory Shelf Life app, manufacturers and distributors can reduce the risk of returned products, unhappy customers, and the early expiration of inventory.

Supported Countries

Canada, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, United Kingdom, and United States

Supported Languages

Dutch, English, French, and Spanish

Supported Editions

Essentials and Premium

Inventory Shelf Life

by NIC Systems Inc.