Defining Sampling Patterns
Define sampling patterns for items in inventory in Sampling Pattern Maintenance (19.3.1). Patterns can be defined so that an audit selects inventory based on expiration dates or lot interval.
See
Inventory Audits for more details.
Days to Expire
Specify the number of days prior to expiration an item is to be sampled.
You can specify different sampling criteria for each item, either on a regular interval or prior to expiration. Sample by Lot Interval Inquiry (19.3.14) reviews items based on the first criteria, and Sample by Expire Days Inquiry (19.3.13) reviews items based on the second. Both print in sequence by item number.
When sampling by days to expire, the system reviews all of the inventory details for this item, and selects any that are due to expire within this number of days.
Sampling by Days to Expire is only useful for items with limited shelf life, as defined in Item-Site Inventory Data Maintenance (1.4.16) or Item Master Maintenance (1.4.1).
Lot Interval
Use this method for sampling items that are stored at more than one site or location and that are stored with lot/serial or lot reference numbers. Enter a value n to pick every nth lot from inventory.
For example, if there are 16 unique inventory records for an item and Lot Interval is 2, Sample by Lot Interval Inquiry (19.3.14) selects every second record, for a total of eight records.
Inventory selection based on a sampling is not automatically entered into a quality order. You must run Sample by Expire Days Inquiry or Sample by Lot Interval Inquiry to see which items are to be sampled.