⏳ Expiring Products Page

“Stay ahead of expiry — identify at-risk items and prevent waste.”

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🎯 Purpose of This Page

The Expiring Products Page helps you monitor products that are approaching or have passed their expiry date.

This page allows you to:

• See all expiring products across stores
• Track how soon each product will expire
• Take proactive action: reorder, rotate stock, or dispose
• Quickly navigate to each product’s detail view for decisions

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🧠 Who Should Use This Page?

• Pharmacy managers tracking medication expiry
• Store officers responsible for consumables
• Inventory supervisors preparing for monthly audits
• Procurement staff deciding what to reorder or dispose

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📅 How Expiry is Calculated

Each product has an expiry date field. The system:

• Calculates the time remaining before expiry
• Flags products nearing expiry based on system-wide expiry threshold (e.g., 30 days)
• Sorts and displays products with the soonest expiry at the top

✅ The logic behind these alerts is automatically enforced — no need for manual filtering.

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🔍 What You Can Do on This Page

Feature	Description
🔎 Search Bar	Find products by name
📦 List of At-Risk Items	View products nearing or past expiry
📤 Export Button	Export the list to CSV/JSON for audits or suppliers
🖨️ Print Button	Print physical lists for disposal or review
📅 Expiry Countdown	See how many days remain until expiry (or how long it’s been expired)
📦 Click-to-Open	Tap a product to open its full profile in the Inventory Page

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🧰 Example Workflow: Disposal Planning

1. The Pharmacy Officer runs a weekly check to prepare a disposal form for expired stock.
2. Open Expiring Products Page
3. Review products marked as expired (in red)
4. Click Print to generate a paper copy
5. Hand it to the disposal committee or supervisor
6. Go to the Inventory Page → locate product → adjust quantity or add comment

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🧾 Example Workflow: Stock Rotation

1. You see a product expiring in 10 days but still have 50 units in the Main Store.
2. Open the product record via click-to-open
3. From the Inventory Page, choose Transfer
4. Send some quantity to a fast-moving department (e.g., Emergency Ward)
5. Add a note: “Fast-moving transfer due to expiry”

✅ This helps maximize product usage and minimize loss.

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⛔ Use Case: Preventing Unintentional Dispense

• When a product is expired:
• It still appears in the product list, but you can add a warning in its profile (e.g., via Comments)
• You can adjust quantity to 0 or mark it as disposed
• You can use Stock Taking or Purchase Audit to handle expired products in bulk

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📤 Export for Reporting

For auditing or compliance:

• Click Export CSV to generate a list of all at-risk or expired items

✅ Useful for:

• Hospital compliance reports
• Quarterly pharmacy audits
• Supplier return requests

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🧠 Best Practices

• Check this page at least once per week
• Train staff to use the expiry badge colors to prioritize:
• Red = expired
• Orange = near expiry
• Green = safe
• Use system settings to define expiry thresholds (e.g., warn 60 days before expiry)
• Tie this page into your purchasing and transfer planning

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