Industry — Pharma

Batch, expiry and
quarantine control —
audit-ready by design.

Fast WMS runs pharmaceutical warehouses on batch and serialisation control, expiry-driven FEFO enforced at the scan, quarantine and hold bins, and a complete audit trail from goods receipt to dispatch.

FEFO
expiry enforced at scan
Full
audit trail on every move
Quarantine
bins locked from picking
Batch & Expiry Monitor
Regulated stock by status
2 quarantine
Product / batch
Qty
Location
Expires
Amoxicillin 500mgBatch AMX-2405-14Quarantine
60
QN-01
Hold
Paracetamol SyrupBatch PCM-2403-09Released
140
A2-B3
28 days
Insulin vialsBatch INS-2404-02Released
36
CH-A1
3 months
Vitamin C tabletsBatch VTC-2401-07Released
400
B4-C2
11 months
Every move loggedfull audit trail
Pharma & healthcare distributors run Fast WMS across India and the Middle East
Pharma Distribution Co.
Healthcare Logistics
Generic Medicines Supply
Surgical & Devices
Vaccine Cold Chain
Nutraceuticals Brand
Hospital Supply Chain
Gulf Pharma Trading
Pharma Distribution Co.
Healthcare Logistics
Generic Medicines Supply
Surgical & Devices
Vaccine Cold Chain
Nutraceuticals Brand
Hospital Supply Chain
Gulf Pharma Trading
Why pharma warehouses choose Fast WMS

The compliance risks a regulated
pharma store cannot afford

Expired medicine picked by mistake

When expiry is not enforced at the scan, staff can pick a short-dated or expired batch — a serious compliance failure and a patient-safety risk.

Quarantine stock issued too early

Goods awaiting QC release sit next to good stock with only a paper tag. Without a locked quarantine bin, they can be picked before they are cleared.

No batch trace for a recall

When a batch is recalled, paper records cannot quickly show where it is and which customers received it — leaving the recall incomplete and undocumented.

Audit gaps in the movement history

An auditor asks who moved a batch, when, and from where. Manual registers rarely have a complete, tamper-evident answer.

How Fast WMS fixes each one
Expiry-driven FEFO at the scanNearest-expiry batch served first, with expiry as a hard filter. An expired or later-expiry batch scan is rejected on the Android app — the wrong batch cannot be picked or shipped.
Quarantine and hold binsReceived stock can be held or quarantined and routed to locked bins, blocked from picking until formally released. Every status change is recorded.
Batch traceability & serialisationEach pallet is one lot with a unique licence-plate number and batch. Append-only history lets you trace any batch or serialised unit, and block a recalled batch instantly.
Complete audit trailEvery transaction writes an audit record, and the pallet-to-bin-to-status history plus an immutable stock ledger answer who moved what, when and where.
Status control

Received, quarantined, released —
every batch in a controlled state

Regulated stock moves through defined statuses, not vague locations. Fast WMS holds each pallet under a status and, where needed, a dedicated bin — so nothing is picked until it is cleared.

Received
Goods-in staging
Inbound batches land in staging at GRN with batch, manufacturing and expiry dates captured before any put-away.
Batch captureDate capturePallet label
Nothing is available to pick until put-away confirmation commits the stock.
Hold
Quarantine / hold
Stock awaiting QC, under hold, or failed inspection sits in locked quarantine bins, blocked from picking until released.
QC holdRejectRecall block
Hold, release and reject status flips are recorded to the audit trail without moving quantity.
Released
Available for FEFO pick
Cleared, in-date batches become available and are picked strictly by expiry, oldest-expiry first, enforced at the scan.
FEFO pickCold-chainDispatch
Cold-chain items can also carry a temperature zone for vaccines and biologicals.
End-to-end flow

Receive & capture → quarantine →
release → FEFO pick → traced dispatch

Fast WMS runs the full regulated lifecycle with batch, expiry and status attached to stock at every step — every movement scan-confirmed and written to the audit trail.

GRN & capture
Scan each pallet; batch, LPN, manufacturing and expiry dates recorded to the lot
Quarantine / release
Hold in a locked bin for QC; release to available or reject — all logged
FEFO pick
Nearest-expiry released batch first; expired or held batch rejected at scan
Traced dispatch
Challan and invoice carry batch and expiry; customer-batch link recorded
01 — Quarantine & hold

Nothing ships until it is
formally released

Received stock can be placed on hold or quarantine and routed to locked bins, where it is blocked from every pick list until QC clears it. A pallet can be flipped between hold, released, damage and reject without moving its quantity, and every change is written to the audit trail — so a recalled or failed batch is removed from available stock in one action.

Dedicated quarantine bins, locked from picking
Hold, release, reject status — no quantity movement
Recalled batch blocked across the whole warehouse
Every status change stamped to the audit trail
Quarantine — Batch AMX-2405-14
ProductAmoxicillin 500mg
Batch / LPNAMX-2405-14
StatusOn hold — QC
Quantity60 units (locked)
BinQuarantine · QN-01
Blocked from picking until QC release — change logged
02 — Expiry-driven FEFO

Oldest-expiry batch first —
expired stock cannot ship

For released stock, Fast WMS builds pick lists that allocate batches by expiry, nearest-expiry first, with expiry as a hard eligibility filter. A picker who scans a later-expiry or expired batch is rejected on the handheld, and expiry-bucket dashboards flag batches approaching their date so they can be managed before they cross it.

Nearest-expiry batch allocated first, automatically
Expired batch ineligible — rejected at pick and dispatch
Expiry-bucket dashboard flags short-dated batches
Cold-chain items carry a temperature zone
FEFO Pick — Paracetamol Syrup
1
Batch PCM-2403-09
Bin A2-B3 · 140 units
Exp 28 days
Pick now
2
Batch PCM-2406-02
Bin A2-B4 · 220 units
Exp 4 months
Next
3
Batch PCM-2409-05
Bin A3-C1 · 300 units
Exp 9 months
Queued
Later or expired batch scan rejected on the handheld
03 — Traceability & audit trail

Who moved what, when —
answered in seconds

Every transaction in Fast WMS writes an audit record, and the pallet-to-bin-to-status history is append-only, so you can always show where a batch is now and everywhere it has been. Combined with serialised licence-plate numbers and an immutable stock ledger, this gives regulated pharma warehouses the complete, tamper-evident trail an audit or recall expects.

Append-only pallet, bin and status history
Serialised licence-plate number per pallet
Customer-to-batch link from dispatch records
Immutable stock ledger on every movement
Audit Trail — Batch INS-2404-02
Trace
Event / user
Qty
Location
GRN · S. Rao10:04 · batch captured
72
Staging
Hold · QC teamQC pending
72
QN-02
Released · QC teamput-away CH-A1
72
CH-A1
Dispatched · A. KhanCust: City Hospital
36
Shipped
Full capability set

Everything Fast WMS covers
for pharma

Batch & expiry control

Batch or LPN, manufacturing date and expiry captured per pallet at GRN, and enforced through picking so nothing out-of-date can ship.

Serialisation

Every pallet carries a unique licence-plate number alongside its batch, and units are barcoded — the base for track-and-trace and serialisation.

Expiry FEFO

Pick lists allocate the nearest-expiry batch first, with expiry as a hard filter and expired-batch scans rejected at the device.

Quarantine & hold

Locked quarantine bins and hold, release and reject statuses keep stock awaiting QC or under recall out of every pick list.

Audit trail

An audit record on every transaction plus an append-only bin history and immutable stock ledger answer who moved what, when and where.

GST invoicing & Tally

Dispatch produces GST challans and invoices carrying batch and expiry, and posts sales and purchase vouchers to Tally automatically.

"In pharma, an expired pick or an issued quarantine batch is not a small error — it is a compliance event. Fast WMS makes both impossible: quarantine bins are locked and the scanner refuses any expired batch. When an auditor asks for a batch history, we export it in seconds."
PD
QA & Warehouse Head
Pharma Distribution — Pune
0
expired or quarantine-batch dispatches since go-live
Full
batch audit trail from GRN to dispatch, exportable on demand
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Built for regulated pharma warehouses.

30-minute demo — we set up your products, batches, expiry dates and quarantine flow on screen. See FEFO, hold-release and audit trace live, not on slides.

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