Perishable, bonded and fast-moving fulfilment stock all fail the same way — kept in the wrong place or shipped past its date. Fast Inventory holds temperature-monitored zones, enforces FEFO and expiry discipline for perishables, segregates free-trade-zone stock from duty-paid, and keeps ecommerce fulfilment stock accurate with hold and quarantine control. One configurable system, cloud or on-premise, for businesses across India and worldwide.
Without enforced FEFO, staff pick the nearest box, not the nearest-expiry one. Dated stock quietly builds at the back of the chiller until it has to be dumped.
Chilled, frozen and ambient stock share one list, so there is no way to see what is where at which temperature band — and a mis-stored batch is a lost batch.
Free-trade-zone material must stay segregated from duty-paid stock, but without a bonded zone in the system the two blur — and the trail an FTZ needs simply isn't there.
An ecommerce item is promised to two orders at once, and quarantined stock gets picked by mistake, so the customer gets a cancellation or a product that should never have shipped.
Perishable, bonded and fulfilment stock follow the same controlled path, with the zone, the expiry date and the hold status all honoured at every step — so nothing ships past its date or out of the wrong zone.
Fast Inventory gives cold-chain, FTZ and ecommerce operations the control they keep trying to build with colour-coded shelves and spreadsheets — with the zone, the date and the hold status enforced by the system.
Zones are created within a warehouse — including temperature-monitored zones such as chillers, freezers and ambient-controlled rooms — so perishable stock is segregated by its storage requirement, not just by item and location. A location carries a zone attribute, and stock is tracked within it like any other location, so a cold zone is simply a configured part of the hierarchy. Combined with lot and expiry tracking, a food, dairy or pharma operation always sees what is where, at what temperature band.
For perishables, issue order is First-Expiry-First-Out: expired lots are excluded as a hard filter and eligible lots are offered nearest-expiry first, so the batch closest to expiry always leaves before a fresher one. A lot-expiry dashboard buckets available stock by window — previous, today, this week, this month and beyond — giving the team a near-expiry action list before value is lost. For a cold-chain business, that is the difference between selling stock in time and writing it off.
A free-trade-zone or bonded area is set up as its own zone or store within the configurable hierarchy, so duty-suspended stock is held separately from duty-paid stock and never mixed. Movements in and out of the FTZ post to the immutable ledger like any other movement, so there is a clean trail of what entered the zone, what left it and when. That keeps the segregation a free-trade-zone or bonded operation must maintain, without running a separate system just for it.
Ecommerce fulfilment needs fast, accurate stock with barcode-driven receipt and issue, reserve stock so an item promised to an order isn't sold twice, and clear near-expiry control for dated goods. Stock that must not ship is put on hold, quarantine or damage status, which excludes it from availability without moving any quantity — so it can't be picked or issued by mistake, and is released or written off through a posted adjustment, leaving a clean trail either way.
Beyond lot-expiry, valuation, aging and reconciliation reports, Dhruv AI gives store and quality managers a role dashboard over live data, a natural-language chat that turns a plain-English question into a query validated through a read-only sandbox, and clustering that groups movement and adjustment remarks into labelled themes — so near-expiry build-up in a zone, a temperature-excursion pattern or slow-moving fulfilment stock surfaces on its own instead of waiting for a report to be run.
Chiller, freezer and ambient zones configured within the warehouse, so cold-chain stock is segregated by its storage band as part of the location hierarchy.
Batch and expiry dates at receipt, enforced First-Expiry-First-Out issue and an expiry dashboard bucketed by window for near-expiry action.
A free-trade-zone or bonded area as its own zone, keeping duty-suspended stock apart from duty-paid, with every move in and out on the immutable ledger.
Barcode-driven receipt and issue with reserve stock so a fulfilment item promised to an order isn't oversold, and near-expiry control for dated goods.
Hold, quarantine and damage status excludes stock from availability without moving quantity, so it can't be picked, then release or write off by adjustment.
Lot-expiry, valuation, aging and reconciliation reports, plus a Dhruv AI dashboard, NL queries and near-expiry insights.
Yes. Chiller, freezer and ambient zones are configured within the warehouse, so perishable stock is segregated by its storage band as part of the location hierarchy.
Expired lots are excluded and eligible lots are offered nearest-expiry first, with an expiry dashboard that buckets stock by window for a near-expiry action list.
Yes. A free-trade-zone or bonded area is its own zone, so duty-suspended stock never mixes with duty-paid, with every move in and out on the immutable ledger.
Yes — barcode receipt and issue, reserve stock so an item isn't oversold, and near-expiry control. For directed picking, Fast WMS adds that layer.
Near-expiry is surfaced on the expiry dashboard for action, and hold/quarantine status excludes stock from availability so it can't be picked by mistake.
No. Cold chain, FTZ and ecommerce is one profile of the same configurable system — zones, FEFO and hold control are switched on through configuration, worldwide.
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Visit Fast WMSA 30-minute demo — your zones, your expiry dates, your bonded and fulfilment stock on screen. See temperature zones, FEFO, FTZ segregation and hold control work as one configurable inventory system.
