Note: “Expiration” may be renamed to match your company’s terminology, so this row and its label may read differently in your workspace. The meaning is the same.
What it tells you
Expiration risk covers two related metrics on the Supply planning grid:- Expiration risk — the quantity (or value) of inventory at risk of expiring unsold in the period. This is stock projected to pass its sell-by or expiry date before it can be consumed.
- Expiration — the quantity actually expiring in the period.
How to read it
Any value above zero is highlighted yellow, so at-risk stock is easy to spot as you scan the grid. Products that carry expiration risk also show an orange “Expiration risk” pill on the grid, flagging them even before you look at the individual cells.| Highlight | What it means |
|---|---|
| Yellow cell | A quantity (or value) of stock is at risk of expiring, or is expiring, this period |
| No highlight | No expiration risk that period |
What to do about it
The goal is to move at-risk stock before it expires, and to stop adding more on top of it:- Push the stock out — run promotions, transfer it to higher-demand locations, or pick using First-Expiry-First-Out (FEFO, sending the oldest stock out first).
- Reduce or defer incoming supply so you are not piling more inventory onto stock that is already at risk.
Example
A product shows an Expiration risk value highlighted yellow and carries the orange “Expiration risk” pill. You expect demand at another location to be stronger, so you transfer some of the at-risk stock there, and you defer an incoming order so fresh supply does not stack up behind inventory that may not sell in time.Tip: Check the Available row to see where the at-risk inventory sits, and use the Supply row to defer or reduce incoming orders that would add to the pile.