A customer received expired probiotics. Lot B-2847, manufactured in March, shipped in November with a December expiry. Your 3PL didn't catch it. Your customer caught it. So did their Instagram followers.
Supplement fulfillment isn't like shipping t-shirts. Every product has an expiration date. Every bottle has a lot number. Some products need cold chain shipping. Returns policies depend on whether the bottle was opened. And if a recall happens, you need to trace every unit of Lot B-2847 to every customer who received it — in hours, not weeks.
Most brands manage this with spreadsheets and hope. The spreadsheet says Lot B-2847 has 90 days of shelf life left. Nobody updated the spreadsheet when the shipment sat in customs for three weeks.
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