Inventory Freshness allows you to assign production dates to items, and restrict inventories that do not meet corresponding freshness requirements from being picked, shipped or received. Inventory Freshness is tightly woven into your warehouse operations, allowing for real-time validation, in a way that looks and feels like a native Business Central feature.

Types of Users

Sales Employees
Purchase Employees
Production Employees
Warehouse Floor Workers
Sales and Purchase Managers

Customer Needs

It is common practice to consider freshness requirements while shipping items to customers and receiving items from vendors. Inventory Freshness ensures that outbound products heading to customers and inbound products arriving from vendors do not exceed a certain number of days from their production date.

Key Features and Functionality

Specify production date: Assign production dates to items at the time of receipt or manufacturing through the Item Tracking Code page.
Adjust inventory production date: Easily change production date of inventories through the Item Reclassification Journal.
Production date entries: View history of production date assignment and deletion.
Customized freshness calculation date: Create freshness codes for items, vendors, customers and combinations of item-vendor and item-customer, thereby meeting unique internal freshness requirements and corresponding customer requirements.
Fully integrate with Business Central: Seamlessly integrates with warehouse activities.
Real-time validation: Ensures real-time freshness validation to prevent receiving, picking, and shipping of products that do not meet freshness requirements.

Freshness requirements normally vary between products, raw materials, vendors and customers. Manufacturers and distributors need a way to ensure that their customer freshness requirements are met during picking and shipping activities. It is greatly beneficial for companies to ensure that their receiving activities comply with internal freshness requirements. If they do not do so, they risk receiving items that do not meet their freshness requirements, likely leading to complications with inventory or the inadequate quality of products.

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

With the Inventory Freshness app, manufacturers and distributors can reduce the risk of returned products, unhappy customers, and complications with 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 Freshness

by NIC Systems Inc.