Advanced Lot Management Expiration Date
Merit Solutions Advanced Lot Management (ALM) is the application that allows efficient control of lot tracked materials (raw or finished goods) within Microsoft Dynamics GP (versions 9 and 10).
The system requirements correspond to requirements of Microsoft Dynamics GP. ALM version 9 requires Dynamics GP’s Manufacturing module to run, while ALM version 10 does not require Manufacturing module.
Expiration Date
Expiration Date is one of lot attributes tracked with ALM 10. In case the expiration date of a lot is in the past, then that lot can’t be used. Users should be careful with this, since every newly accepted lot automatically receives (expired) expiration date – the system date minus one day. This was made on purpose, to force QA users to manually enter valid expiration dates for each lot.
Once entered, these dates can be changed by QA users at any time. On the Lot Attribute Maintenance window, when selecting a lot, it’s Expiration Date is shown in the corresponding field. Simply overwriting the existing value with the new one and saving new setting is enough.
In case value in the Expiration Date field is empty, i.e. ‘00000000’ it means that the selected lot was accepted more than once, and that each time a different expiration date was set for it. By opening the Change Expiration Date window, a complete list of existing Expiration Dates for the lot will be listed. These values can be changed one by one on the Change Expiration Date window. On the Lot Attribute Maintenance window, the common Expiration Date can be set as already described above. A Warning message will inform the user that the previously set dates will be lost.
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