The Bio-terrorism Act of 2002 and the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), signed into law in 2011, is having and will continue to have an impact on the global food supply chain. Distributors must be prepared to meet the new regulations or face large fines and possibly closure. These laws give the Food and Drug Administration unprecedented new powers of enforcement, inspection, and forced recall.  Because of this, it was especially important that we include lot tracking features that will keep our customers in adherence to this new law and the freedom of mind that they are fully prepared in case of a product recall.  

 

Warehouse staff cannot assign lots using Electronic Warehouse Manager. There are three ways to get the Lot numbers assigned to items into the entrée Inventory File.

 

1.When inventory is received warehouse staff use EWM to scan the barcode labels of the products. The lot number is then recorded along with all other key information from that barcode label.

2.Office staff can perform Lot Number assignment during Invoicing, which add times to order processing.

3.Or you can enable entrée System Option #106 "Auto Assign Lots During Invoicing", so the entrée system will do the lot assignment work.

 

The best method is #1, scan and use the Lot Number (or Production Date) encoded in the manufacturer's barcode label during receiving.

 

Then when the product is sold, the lot number in the scanned barcode label is recorded, including all details including the customer that purchased the item.

 

Whenever a product recall is issued by the FDA, you can then quickly determine what customers were provided inventory from the recalled lot's using the Product Recall Report.