Shelf-life calculation and expiry alerts

Purpose

1.1. Automate monitoring of fish product shelf-life to ensure regulatory compliance and product quality.
1.2. Automates expiry date tracking, alerting staff to soon-to-expire inventory, reducing waste, and improving food safety.
1.3. Integration with inventory, production, and quality assurance to automate consistent expiry controls in seafood processing operations.
1.4. Automates audit trail and reporting to demonstrate quality assurance automation and compliance to authorities.
1.5. Automatedly links supplier/manufacturer data with batch expiry dates for full traceability.

Trigger Conditions

2.1. Automated inventory updates from inbound/outbound goods or batch production completion.
2.2. Approaching expiry date based on shelf-life algorithms and lot-specific manufacturing/receiving timestamps.
2.3. Manual override or recalculation event from QA or compliance team.
2.4. Automated scheduled scans to routine-check all inventory items for expiring lots.

Platform variants

3.1. Microsoft Power Automate
- Feature/Setting: "Scheduled Cloud Flow", automate running expiry calculations and notifications, configure with SharePoint/Excel API.

3.2. Zapier
- Feature/Setting: "Schedule by Zapier" + Airtable integration, automate expiry alerts emailing.

3.3. Make (Integromat)
- Feature/Setting: "Scenario Scheduling" + HTTP module, automate data pulls from ERP, alert on Slack using Slack API.

3.4. Workato
- Feature/Setting: "Recipe", automate multi-step workflow with Google Sheets and SMS, configure expiry triggers.

3.5. AWS Lambda
- Feature/Setting: Custom Python/Node.js function, automate shelf-life calculation on S3 inventory data events.

3.6. Azure Logic Apps
- Feature/Setting: "Recurrence trigger", automate expiry checks, send automated emails via Office 365 Connector.

3.7. Google Apps Script
- Feature/Setting: Scheduled time-driven triggers, automate sheet calculations, email alerts using Gmail API.

3.8. SAP Business Technology Platform
- Feature/Setting: "Workflow Service", automate expiry event handling from SAP S/4HANA inventory.

3.9. Oracle Integration Cloud
- Feature/Setting: "Scheduled Orchestration", automate expiry events and analytics.

3.10. Twilio SMS
- Feature/Setting: "Programmable Messaging API", automate SMS expiry alerts to QA/compliance team.

3.11. SendGrid
- Feature/Setting: "Transactional Email API", automated batch email expiry notifications to stakeholders.

3.12. Slack
- Feature/Setting: "Incoming Webhooks", automate posting expiry alerts to designated channels.

3.13. Microsoft Teams
- Feature/Setting: "Teams Bot API", automated messaging for soon-to-expire items.

3.14. Airtable
- Feature/Setting: "Automations", automate field updates and expiry alert emails.

3.15. Notion
- Feature/Setting: "Database Trigger Automation", automate expiry flagging and notifications within Notion workspace.

3.16. Trello
- Feature/Setting: "Butler Automation", automate card due-date warnings for expiring batches.

3.17. Smartsheet
- Feature/Setting: "Automated Workflows", automate expiry-driven reminder emails.

3.18. Salesforce
- Feature/Setting: "Process Builder", automate triggering tasks or alerts for QA on approaching expiry.

3.19. Monday.com
- Feature/Setting: "Automations Center", configure expiry rules to automate status changes and notify staff.

3.20. Jira
- Feature/Setting: "Automation Rules", automate issues creation for expiring inventory for traceability.

3.21. HubSpot
- Feature/Setting: "Workflows", automate expiry notification emails or ticket creation.

3.22. Google Calendar
- Feature/Setting: "API Events", automate reminders for manual quality checks on expiring lots.

3.23. Freshservice
- Feature/Setting: "Workflow Automator", automate ticketing for soon-to-expire stock items.

3.24. ServiceNow
- Feature/Setting: "Flow Designer", automate incident creation for expired inventory disposal.

Benefits

4.1. Automates compliance monitoring, reducing manual errors and audit risks.
4.2. Enhances food safety by automating expiry controls, decreasing the likelihood of expired fish products reaching customers.
4.3. Automates resource allocation for timely inventory turnover and cost reduction through minimized waste.
4.4. End-to-end automation of notifications, reporting, and escalation transforms quality assurance efficiency in seafood processing.
4.5. Automated transparency and traceability support data-driven management decisions and regulatory audit readiness.