Industry — Food & Beverage

Every batch traceable.
Every pick FEFO.
Nothing expired ships.

Fast WMS runs food and beverage warehouses on FEFO enforced at the scan, lot and expiry captured at GRN, batch traceability from receipt to delivery, cold-chain zones, and one-click recall readiness for FSSAI-style audits.

FEFO
enforced at every scan
100%
batch traceability, GRN to delivery
Zero
expired stock dispatched
Lot Expiry Dashboard
Perishable stock by expiry window
3 lots critical
Item / batch
Qty
Location
Expires
Fruit Pulp MangoBatch FP-2406-11Chiller
42
CH-A2
2 days
Frozen Peas 1kgBatch FZ-2405-08Frozen
120
FZ-C1
9 days
Butter 500gBatch BT-2404-03Chiller
64
CH-B4
15 days
Juice ConcentrateBatch JC-2312-19
210
DR-D2
4 months
Expired dispatch blockedrejected at the scan
Food & beverage operators run Fast WMS across India and the Middle East
Igloo Frozen Freshness
Dairy & Chilled Distributors
Beverage Bottlers
Frozen Foods Co.
Bakery Ingredients Supply
Ready-to-Eat Brands
Edible Oils Trading
Gulf Cold Chain
Igloo Frozen Freshness
Dairy & Chilled Distributors
Beverage Bottlers
Frozen Foods Co.
Bakery Ingredients Supply
Ready-to-Eat Brands
Edible Oils Trading
Gulf Cold Chain
Why food & beverage warehouses choose Fast WMS

The problems date-coded stock
creates every single day

Expired stock reaches customers

Without expiry enforced at the scan, staff pick the nearest carton, not the nearest-expiry lot — and out-of-date product goes out, risking rejection, returns and brand damage.

No batch trace when a recall hits

When a supplier batch is flagged, paper records cannot answer where that batch is now and which customers received it — so the recall becomes a frantic, incomplete search.

Cold-chain zones get mixed up

Frozen, chiller and dry stock stored without controlled zones leads to product in the wrong temperature and no record of where each lot should sit.

Near-expiry write-off spirals

Lots quietly age at the back of the rack. With no expiry dashboard, they are found only when they have already crossed the date — a straight write-off.

How Fast WMS fixes each one
FEFO enforced at the scanEvery pick list serves the nearest-expiry lot first; a scan of a later-expiry lot is rejected on the Android app, and expiry is a hard eligibility filter. The wrong batch physically cannot be picked.
Full batch traceabilityOne pallet is one lot with a batch or LPN number and an append-only bin history. You can find every pallet of a batch, and every customer it shipped to, in seconds.
Temperature-zone binsFrozen, chiller and dry zones are separate store types with their own bins. Stock is assigned to the right zone at GRN and shown on the graphical bin map.
Lot Expiry Dashboard with alertsStock is bucketed by expiry window and near-expiry lots are pushed to the top of the next FEFO pick list — so they move before they age out.
Cold-chain zones

Frozen, chiller and dry —
each a controlled store in Fast WMS

Food and beverage warehouses rarely run at one temperature. Fast WMS models each zone as its own store with dedicated bins, so every lot is stored, tracked and picked in the right conditions.

-18°C
Frozen zone
Deep-freeze storage for frozen foods, ice cream and long-life frozen stock, with bin-level tracking inside the cold room.
Frozen vegetablesIce creamFrozen ready-meals
FEFO and expiry enforced even inside the freezer — pickers work off the handheld, not memory.
2–8°C
Chiller zone
Refrigerated storage for dairy, fresh produce, beverages and short-shelf-life stock where days matter.
DairyFruit pulpChilled drinks
Short expiry windows surface first on the dashboard, so fast-perishing lots are never buried.
Ambient
Dry / ambient zone
Room-temperature storage for packaged and shelf-stable goods — still lot and expiry tracked for date-coded stock.
ConcentratesPackaged snacksEdible oils
Carton-to-piece conversion supported for mixed case and loose picking.
End-to-end flow

Receive with dates → store by zone →
FEFO pick → dispatch traced

Fast WMS runs the full food and beverage lifecycle with the expiry date and batch attached to stock at every step — from goods receipt to a fully traceable dispatch.

GRN with dates
Scan each pallet against the PO; batch, production date and expiry captured to the lot
Put-away by zone
Directed to the correct frozen, chiller or dry bin; committed at put-away confirmation
FEFO pick
Pick list serves nearest-expiry lot first; wrong or expired lot rejected at scan
Traced dispatch
Challan and GST invoice carry batch and expiry; customer-batch link recorded
01 — FEFO picking

Nearest-expiry lot first —
enforced, not suggested

When a picker starts an order, Fast WMS builds a pick list that allocates eligible pallets by expiry, oldest first, with expiry as a hard filter. If the picker scans a later-expiry lot while an earlier one is still available, the Android app rejects it. Blocked, held or out-of-date pallets are never offered.

Expiry is a hard eligibility filter at allocation
Wrong-lot scan rejected on the handheld
Held and damaged pallets excluded automatically
Expired pallet blocked again at dispatch scan
FEFO Pick Order — Fruit Pulp
1
Batch FP-2406-11
Bin CH-A2 · 42 units
Exp 2 days
Pick now
2
Batch FP-2407-04
Bin CH-A3 · 88 units
Exp 21 days
Next
3
Batch FP-2408-02
Bin CH-B1 · 140 units
Exp 55 days
Queued
Later batch scan blocked while FP-2406-11 is available
02 — Lot & expiry capture

Batch, production and expiry dates
captured at goods receipt

Every food and beverage pallet is one lot. At GRN, the store operator scans the pallet and records the supplier batch or LPN number, the production date and the expiry date. Those details stay attached to the pallet through its entire life, flowing onto the expiry dashboard, pick lists and the dispatch challan.

Batch / LPN, production date and expiry per lot
Pallet barcode label with dates printed at receipt
Hold or block a suspect batch without moving stock
Zone assigned at GRN — frozen, chiller or dry
GRN — Lot Capture
ItemFrozen Peas 1kg
Batch / LPNFZ-2405-08
Production date12 May 2026
Expiry date12 May 2027
ZoneFrozen · FZ-C1
Lot created — dates locked to pallet FZ-2405-08
03 — Traceability & recall

Answer a recall in minutes —
not a frantic paper search

Because every pallet carries a batch number and an append-only bin history, Fast WMS always knows where a batch is now and everywhere it has been. If a supplier batch is implicated, you can locate every remaining pallet, block it from picking, and pull the dispatch records that show exactly which customers received it — the traceability an FSSAI-style recall demands.

Find every pallet of a batch across all zones
Customer-to-batch link from dispatch records
Block a batch instantly — remove it from stock
Full audit trail from GRN to gate-out
Batch Trace — FP-2406-11
Recall
Movement
Qty
Location
GRN receipt10 Jun 2026
180
Staging
Put-awayChiller zone
180
CH-A2
DispatchedCust: Metro Retail
96
Shipped
On handBlocked now
42
Held
Full capability set

Everything Fast WMS covers
for food & beverage

FEFO enforcement

Nearest-expiry lot picked first, wrong-lot scan rejected at the Android device, expiry as a hard filter. No expired or held stock can be picked.

Lot & expiry tracking

Batch or LPN, production date and expiry captured per pallet at GRN, and surfaced on the Lot Expiry Dashboard with time-band alerts.

Batch traceability & recall

Append-only pallet history and dispatch records give full farm-to-fork traceability — and a one-click batch trace when a recall is called.

Cold-chain zones

Frozen, chiller and dry stores with dedicated bins. Stock assigned to the correct zone at GRN and shown on the graphical bin map.

Carton & piece handling

Transport-unit to consumer-unit conversion for mixed case and loose picking, packing slips and dispatch labels printed from the system.

GST invoicing & Tally

Dispatch generates GST-compliant challans and invoices with batch and expiry, and posts sales and purchase vouchers to Tally automatically.

"With date-coded stock, one wrong pick can mean a customer rejection or a recall. Fast WMS makes FEFO the only option — the picker is sent to the nearest-expiry lot and the scanner refuses anything else. We simply do not ship expired product now."
IF
Warehouse Manager
Igloo Frozen Freshness — Pune
0
expired-stock dispatches since go-live — FEFO enforced at every scan
100%
batch traceability from GRN to delivery, ready for an FSSAI-style audit
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