Cutting Batch Expiry Write-Offs Across Multi-Location Inventory
A distributor holds temperature-sensitive stock across eleven regional warehouses, with batch expiry tracked separately at each site.
Run on Sanchay · Supply Chain Resilience
The challenge
Stock expires at one warehouse while another is short of the same product.
Expiry is visible per site but never across the network, so redistribution never happens in time.
Write-offs are discovered at month end, when nothing can be done about them.
How Sanchay solves it
Network Inventory View
Stock, batch, and expiry are consolidated across every location into one position.
Expiry Horizon Alerting
Batches approaching expiry are flagged against the demand at their own site while redistribution is still possible.
Redistribution Recommendation
Where another site has demand for an at-risk batch, a transfer is recommended before the batch is lost.
Ordering Suppression
New orders are held back where at-risk stock can meet the demand instead.
Write-Off Attribution
Losses that do occur are attributed to their cause so ordering behaviour can be corrected.
The outcome
At-risk batches surfaced while redistribution is still possible.
Ordering suppressed where existing stock can cover the need.
Write-offs attributed to cause rather than discovered at month end.
Representative scenario: a modelled industry situation showing how this accelerator applies. Figures are projections, not a named client result.
Capabilities used
Every accelerator is assembled from the same capability layer, so a workflow you adopt here shares its foundation with the rest of the portfolio.
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