Food and beverage businesses live and die on freshness. Fast Inventory Software captures batch and expiry the moment goods are received, enforces FEFO so the nearest-expiry lot is always issued first, buckets near-expiry stock into a dated action list, keeps allergen and lot genealogy for a clean recall, and holds stock zone by zone across chilled, frozen and ambient storage. Cloud or on-premise, for businesses across India and worldwide.
Nobody sees a batch approaching its expiry date until it is too late. Short-shelf-life stock turns into spoilage at the back of the cold room, and the loss only shows up at month-end.
First-expiry-first-out is written on the wall, but the operator grabs whatever is in front. Older, nearer-expiry batches get buried while fresher stock ships, and freshness at the customer drifts.
When a supplier batch is flagged or a customer complains, tracing which finished goods it went into — and where they shipped — takes hours of pulling files, with allergen information scattered across formats.
Chilled, frozen and dry stores are treated as a single pile in a spreadsheet, so you can't see what sits in each temperature zone, and a physical count never quite reconciles zone by zone.
Fast Inventory Software models the way a food or beverage store actually handles stock — receive by batch, hold by temperature zone, issue by FEFO, act on near-expiry, count and trace — on the same item master and immutable stock ledger the rest of the Fast Suite uses.
Fast Inventory Software carries a food or beverage batch through the full stock cycle — the freshness and traceability discipline a food business needs, without spreadsheets and paper batch registers.
Freshness control starts at the door. When a batch-controlled ingredient or finished good is received, the goods receipt (GRN) records the batch number, production date and expiry date, and posts the quantity as lot detail sitting on top of the running stock balance — every leg leaving an immutable stock-ledger trail. From that point on, the system knows not just how much you hold, but which batches, and when each one expires. See lot, batch & expiry (FEFO) and stock movements.
Waste in a food business is stock nobody noticed in time. The lot-expiry dashboard buckets every available batch by expiry window — previous, today, tomorrow, this week, this month, this quarter, six months and this year — so a store or quality team opens one screen and gets a dated action list. Prioritise nearest-expiry stock for dispatch, move it to a promotion, or quarantine and write it down deliberately. See reports & analytics, and get the buckets pushed to you via WhatsApp & email alerts.
FEFO only protects freshness if it is enforced, not remembered. When you issue a batch-controlled item to production, packing or dispatch, Fast Inventory Software excludes expired lots as a hard eligibility filter — they can never be picked — and orders the eligible lots by expiry, so the nearest-expiry batch leaves first. Lots on hold, quarantine or damage status drop out of availability without moving any quantity. The operator can't accidentally ship fresh over old. Read more about lot, batch & expiry (FEFO).
When a supplier batch is flagged or a customer complains, the question is always the same: which finished goods did that ingredient go into, and where did they ship? Because every movement is a document on one shared engine and every batch keeps an append-only lot-to-location-to-status history, Fast Inventory Software traces a lot both ways — forward to the finished goods and dispatches it fed, and backward to the ingredient lots and suppliers behind it. Allergen and specification attributes carried on the item travel with the lot. See item & material master and stock movements.
Stock accuracy is only useful when it drives decisions. Fast Inventory Software reports stock and valuation zone by zone, aging and slow-moving to expose stock heading for spoilage, ABC analysis to focus buying on the batches that carry the value, reorder-level alerts so short-shelf-life lines are not over-ordered, and a full stock ledger and reconciliation trail. Reports & analytics covers the suite; Dhruv AI then answers plain-English questions about expiry risk, non-moving stock and valuation on top.
Batch number, production and expiry date on every lot, the lot-expiry dashboard bucketed by window, and FEFO issue that excludes expired lots and consumes nearest-expiry first.
Goods receipt, material issue, return, transfer between zones and gate pass — each moving quantity at lot level and leaving an immutable stock-ledger trail.
Forward and backward lot genealogy with allergen and specification attributes on the item, so a recall or complaint scopes to the exact affected batches in seconds.
Chilled, frozen and ambient modelled as separate storage locations, so stock and its batches are held and counted zone by zone across the cold chain.
Cycle and annual counts record book versus physical variance per zone, reconciled by a stock adjustment — a count never changes stock by itself.
Stock, valuation, aging, slow-moving, ABC, reorder and reconciliation reports — plus Dhruv AI for plain-English questions on expiry risk and non-moving stock.
Yes. Each receipt creates a lot carrying its batch number, production date and expiry date, held as lot detail on top of the running stock balance. Every later issue, transfer or adjustment moves quantity at lot level and leaves an immutable stock-ledger trail.
On every issue Fast Inventory excludes expired lots as a hard eligibility filter and orders the eligible lots by expiry, so the nearest-expiry batch is consumed first. Lots on hold, quarantine or damage status are also kept out of availability.
Yes. The lot-expiry dashboard buckets every available batch by window — previous, today, this week, this month, this quarter and beyond — giving a dated action list so short-shelf-life stock is dispatched, promoted or quarantined early, not lost at month-end.
Yes. An append-only lot history traces a batch forward to the finished goods and dispatches it fed, and back to the ingredient lots and suppliers behind it, with allergen and specification attributes carried on the item — so a recall scopes to exact batches fast.
Yes. Stores and storage locations are configuration, not hardcoded, so chilled, frozen and ambient are separate zones holding stock and batches zone by zone. Transfers move quantity with a ledger trail, and stock taking reconciles each zone.
Both. Fast Inventory Software runs cloud or on-premise and serves food and beverage manufacturers, distributors, traders and 3PL businesses across India and worldwide. It is a Fast Technology product, built in Pune by Improsys, on one shared stock engine.
One configurable inventory engine, every scenario — cloud or on-premise, across India and worldwide.
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Learn moreA 30-minute demo — we take one of your own food or beverage items, receive it with a batch and expiry, hold it by zone, issue it by FEFO and trace it for recall on screen. No slides, no generic walkthrough.
