FIFO treats stock received first as the first stock issued. The term appears in both physical stock rotation and accounting cost assignment; those uses do not automatically describe the same physical movement.[1]
Specify whether an instruction concerns picking sequence or accounting. Receipt order may be unsuitable for dated products when a later delivery expires earlier. In that case, assess whether expiry-based rotation better matches the operational requirement.
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