A freezer full of the same product is not a single inventory. It is a stack of different production dates, and the order they leave in decides whether your oldest stock becomes revenue or write-off.
Lot codes make that possible, but only if they are read at the pick face rather than discovered at the audit. A pallet pulled from the wrong position looks identical, weighs the same, and carries a date that quietly shortens the shelf life left on your customer’s invoice.
First-expired-first-out is simple as a rule and harder as a habit. It survives when the lot code is physical and legible, when the pick list carries the date, and when the person on the forklift can see it without moving three pallets.
The cost of a wrong pick rarely appears as a loss. It appears as a shorter remaining shelf life, a discount to move stock, or a rejected delivery months later.
At NewsourceFoods, we print lot and production date so they can be read at the pallet rather than at the case level, and we keep the same format across shipments so your receiving logic does not need to change between origins. We supply the frozen range with OEM and ODM support and work under ISO, HACCP, BRC, IFS, KOSHER, and HALAL.
Walk your freezer and check one pallet at random. If you cannot read its date without moving it, that is the fix worth making before the next container arrives.
NewsourceFoods ｜ yulian@qdnewsource.com ｜ Tel / WhatsApp: 0086 13687623173
