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AI Agent-Inventory Expiry Assistant

The Inventory Expiry Assistant agent is a powerful AI-driven assistant designed for warehouse supervisors and inventory managers to proactively monitor and manage inventory shelf life. This intelligent tool helps identify, isolate, and secure lot-controlled goods that have expired or are nearing expiration, ensuring only safe and compliant inventory is processed for customer orders.

This agent provides:

  • Real-Time Expiration Monitoring - Instantly identify expired inventory or items at risk of expiring across Reserve, Active, and Outbound areas using a workflow agents.
  • Interactive Chat - Users can query the AI Agent with specific requests. For example, to list expired inventory by location, date range, item, or storage area - and get instant, relevant responses.
  • Container Locking - Through the chat interface, users can apply locks to individual or multiple containers to prevent allocation. The Agent ensures that only containers with correctly configured locks are secured and notifies users if a lock cannot prevent allocation.

With the Inventory Expiry Assistant, you can significantly reduce the risks of shipping expired products, ensure regulatory compliance, and optimize warehouse operations with AI-powered efficiency.

Before you use the AI Agent, you have to complete the key configurations in the Steps to Enable and Configure section. Once you complete all configurations, you can launch the AI Agent and use prompts to perform specific tasks.

Here are some sample prompts/questions that could be useful when interacting with the Inventory Expiration Assistant:

Sample Prompts/Questions Sample Response
Find me LPNs in area A that are expired
  • There are 25 LPNs in area A that are expired. Here are the LPN numbers: xxxx
  • There are no expired LPNS in area A. However 3 LPNs are about to expire in 2 days: xxx
List the Active locations with Expired Inventory (OR) There are 458 LPNs with the expired inventory. Here are the first few by earliest expiry listed below: Container Number: CSPMM141890011 Item/SKU: EXP011 Expiry Date: 2019-10-31 Location: R0152A1
List the Inbound LPNs with inventory that will expire in the next 3 days There are no LPNs that are expiring in the next 3 days.
List the Outbound LPNs with expired inventory from last month There are 395 LPNs with the expired inventory. Here are the first few by earliest expiry listed below: Container Number: CSPMM00000704 Item/SKU: TSTITM58 Expiry Date: 2017-06-02 Location: Container Number: OBOR440404 Item/SKU: TSTITMBE1 Expiry Date: 2018-01-17 Location:

Steps to Enable and Configure

See AI Agent Configuration in WMS for the configuration steps for enabling the Inventory Expiry Assistant AI Agent in WMS.