Understanding Lot Date Information

You can track various types of dates that are associated with a lot and select which date to use for committing inventory and tracking availability. These dates include expiration date, sell by date, best before date, effective date, and depending on industry standards, lot date information for user-defined purposes. For example, certain materials may require that a lot be retested for potency or integrity. Other types of materials might need to be reagitated or compounded. You can define a date type, such as retest date, and store that information in the supplemental database by item and lot.

Similarly, you can specify which date to use during the sales commitment. For example, you can define customer preferences that specify whether a customer wants inventory based on the sell by date or the expiration date.

Establish the default dates on the Item Master Revisions form. The system uses these tables to process multiple lot dates:

• F4108

• F4101

• F4102

• F4801

• F4311

• F43121

• F4211

• F4111