Defining Expiration Dates

Expiration dates are maintained at the item level. Each item needs to be defined with the ‘Product Life’ and ‘% Acceptable’. The two values are defined in the ‘Items’ UI screen.

  1. Navigate to the Item UI screen.
  2. Using the ‘Search’ button, search for the item that requires expiration date setup.
  3. Select the item record, and click Details ().
  4. Click Edit, and scroll down until you see ‘Product Life’, and ‘% acceptable’.
  5. Update these two fields and click “Save” when complete.

Product Life: 30 days

% Acceptable: 60%

This converts to 30 * 0.6 = 18 days acceptable. In this case, the item has to have at least 19 days left until it expires for it to be accepted into the facility.

So if today’s date was 11/24/2014, the system will only allow receipt if the item has an expiration date of at least 12/13/2014 (19 days later).