Expiry date of product in shelf - IS Retail!

[Former Member]

Hi expert,

In Is Retail how do we manage expiry date of product during sale.

Scenario: suppose I have in my shelf, the products having different expiry dates,

and of cousre they might be having expiry period in their masters.

But during sale at POS, how do i ensure that, the product

which i am giving to customer is not expired or expired as of now.

is their any mechanism in POS system to check that.

Pls reply with the full flow and logic.

thanks and regards,

C.Saravanan

[Former Member]

Some ideas.

in case you want that POS should check experation date you should have some kind of unique identificator for particular product or several products with same exp. date.

this indicator could be barcode - so you need to generate& assign barcodes for products and have additional attribute "exp.date" for link "product-barcode".

Here we come to theoretical process

1. receive goods in store.

2. mark goods properly

2.1 get exp. date from product

2.2 check if you already has barcode for this product with same exp.date.

2.2.1 if yes, print barcode, stick on product

2.2.2 if no, generate new barcode, enter attribute exp. date -> print, stick.

send data to POS system (product - barcode - exp. date)

3. put goods on shelf or warehouse then shelf

4. customer take it and bring to POS.

5. POS scans barcode, check exp. date

6. sales day closing, POS send sales data to ERP. Everybody happy.

In case to support such process you should have both ERP & POS system in order to support it.

From business point of view you should realise how time consuming is this process. You could oblige you vendor to do it.

In case of ERP you can probably use just modify or use extra fields in article master data for that barcodes.

[Former Member]

Hi Sarvanan ,

Assuming the POS is Offline

step- 1) send the Shelf life expiration date through segment VFDAT in the outbound idoc .

step 2) map the same into the POS.

Step 3) While scanning the artice (EAN/Batch). the POS pops up the msg..

To remove the articles from the shelf bfore they are produced at the POS. Run the report (T-code MB5m) and send it to the POS

Regards..

jonk