Lot management | Activate lot management

Is keeping track of your product lots crucial for your operations? Dive into the guide below to activate lot tracking, set up expiry threshold delays and elevate your inventory management with Bigblue. 🐡

Some benefits of activating lot management 🚀

• Using the First Expired First Out method (FEFO) by default to deal with your products, while still being able to select the lot that you want for each of your orders
• Organising the retrieval of lots (instead of all products)
• Tracking the inventory for each lot

1. Request Bigblue to activate lot management

First and foremost, you will need Bigblue to activate the lot management option for your account.

2. Create the products for which lots should be tracked

To manually create a new product with lot management:

• Go to Inventory > Products, click Add Product
• Fill in the required details (guide here) and tick the Track lots option
• If necessary, tick the Track lot expiry option and specify the Lot expiry threshold delay (number of days before expiry date upon which products will switch to damaged and not fulfill orders anymore)

💡 It's also possible to create new products in batch with a CSV file, you can follow this guide.

3. Add your products with tracked lots to inbound shipments

• Go to Inbound shipments, click Create shipment
• Fill in the required details (guide here) and add your product
• Indicate the Lot code and, if you ticked Track lot expiry, indicate the Lot expiration date

💡 It's also possible to create inbounds with all lot details with a CSV file, you can follow this guide

📖 That's it! Please refer to Lot management | Frequent questions for more information.