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Who calculates the best-before date on the box?

Coming up: from item to batch with best-before date
Today

The shelf-life agreement sits in an e-mail.

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Or in a specification file, far from the people running the line. On the floor, the date is copied over or worked out.

Best-before date of a production run, filled in on the floor
Production date07/09
Filled in
Shelf lifeSix weeks or six months?
Unsure
Best-before date on the boxWorked out by hand
Wrong
Batch numberCopied from the production sheet
Manual work
Copied from an e-mail, calculated by hand
The impact

One calculation error ends up on an entire production run.

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A wrong date on the box means a complaint, or a return.

The shelf life is stored on the item.
The solution

The shelf life is stored on the item.

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The recipe and the shelf life belong to the item. Production works with those same item details, not with an e-mail.

When it is produced, the finished product receives a batch and a best-before date from the system.
How it works

When it is produced, the finished product receives a batch and a best-before date from the system.

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Nobody works out the date any more. The new batch appears in stock straight away, with its best-before date.

Every stock line carries a batch and a date.
The result

Every stock line carries a batch and a date.

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What comes off the line can be found by batch, with the best-before date the system calculated.

Less chance of a wrong date on the box.

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In short

The problem
What you agree with a customer about shelf life has to come off the line without errors. Today, someone works out that date by hand.
The solution
Shelf life is set once on the item. When production is booked, the finished product receives a batch and a best-before date.
Features used
Shelf life on the item, production booking, batch and best-before date in stock.
Who it is for
Food producers with shelf-life agreements with their customers.
In the demo
Booking a production, and the finished product with its batch and best-before date in stock.
Background to this storyWhat food manufacturers tell us, and what you will see of it in the demo.
"What we promise the retailer today has to come off our line without errors three months from now."
IRPIn the process
Work step
Producing a production run
Needed
The shelf life of the item
Supplied by
The item, recorded once
When
When the output is booked
Next
Batch and best-before date on the finished product, in stock

Shelf life on the item; when it is produced, the finished product receives a batch and a best-before date from the system (demo environment).

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