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    Checking the shelf life expiration date (SLED)

    Your task/initial situation

    You are selling food with a a shelf life expiration date, which you save during each goods receipt. At regular intervals, you would like to check whether items will expire soon in order to offer them at a lower price.

    Managing the shelf life expiration date

    In general, you must decide when creating an item, whether it should have a shelf life expiration date. The Inventory management active check box needs to be ticked for this. Once stock is available for an item, it is no longer possible to change the Shelf life expiration date option. However, changing the option is possible when the stock is 0.

    1. Click on the Items icon to go to item management in JTL-Wawi.
    2. Navigate via the category structure to the item whose shelf life expiration date you want to manage and open the Item master data by double-clicking.
    3. In the tab General, select the tab Warehouse options in the lower left area.
    4. Activate the option Shelf life expiration date.

    As soon as you post a goods receipt for the item with a shelf life expiration date, you must always specify the shelf life expiration date.

    Checking shelf life expiration dates

    In JTL-Wawi, you can view a list of all items with a shelf life expiration date, so you can check which items are about to expire.

    1. Go to the menu Item > Shelf life expiration date (SLED) and open the dialogue box Checking shelf life expiration date (SLED). In this dialogue box, the items that are about to expire are highlighted in a specific colour.
    1. Aktivieren Sie die Checkbox Alle Mindesthaltbarkeitsdaten, die in den nächsten, bestimmen Sie die Anzahl an Tagen und wählen Sie über das Dropdown-Menü Ablaufen oder Noch haltbar. This allows you to define the display.
    2. If required, you can also select the Category and the Warehouse of the items via the drop-down menu.

    You will see an overview of the items that are about to expire or have already expired. Read more about the details of the Checking the shelf life expiration date (SLED) dialogue box.