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 |
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| 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: |
Enhanced Execution Controls
This agent supports additional corrective actions for expired outbound and inbound inventory. Users can take action directly from the agent experience instead of leaving the workflow to manually research and update records.
This helps reduce the risk of shipping expired inventory by giving warehouse users direct AI Agent actions to isolate or cancel impacted inventory before it moves further through fulfillment.
The Inventory Expiry Assistant AI Agent allows you to:
- Cancel outbound LPNs that are already picked or packed and are at risk of being loaded and shipped by using the bulk cancel OBLPN action through the agent.
- Place holds on allocated or partly allocated inbound tasks through the agent to prevent expired inventory from being packed into outbound LPNs.
- Refresh expired inventory views for reserve and outbound inventory after locking or cancellation actions so you can continue working from current results.
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.
- Ensure you have permission to perform the underlying bulk cancel OBLPN and bulk hold task actions.