Odoo 10 Implementation Cookbook

Track expired inventory

It is difficult to track the expiry date for milk, fruit, vegetables and other food items in the inventory. The life of such items is not so long, however, to meet the demand we have to keep some stock of these items. If these items are not managed correctly in the warehouse, we could incur a loss as we may get the information late about the expiry of such products.

Odoo Version 10.0 has a workaround solution to the manage inventory of fast-moving items. Few days have to be decided in advance as a part of the configuration of each product about their life. The feature can be activated from the Inventory | Configuration | Setting page:

The expiry date feature works when you assign a serial or lot number to the incoming ...