If you’re a process manufacturer thinking of investing in a new business solution, your industry best practices and regulatory needs will give you a list of critical requirements, as listed below:
- Batch Traceability: simple and easy-to-use forward and backward tracking to understand and answer all your batch-related questions
- Batch Date Control: shelf life, expiry date, consume-by date, and inspection dates to reduce stock write-offs and obsolescence and increase business profits
- Quality Control Management: manage production in-process, re-test, and goods receipt movements of inventory to increase product quality and safety
- Flexible Recipes and Formulas: the flexibility to define quantity relationships, percentage weight-based recipes, or dimension-based formulas to define your products, rather than using a traditional engineering bill of materials methodology
- Co-Product, By-Product, and Scrap Management: manage product variation resulting from the production process
- Product Costing: accurately cost your products based on the inputs and outputs of the production process, which include yield, scrap, batch size, materials, resources, and fixed and variable overheads
- Complaint Management: centralize customer, supplier, and internal business complaints in your ERP system, for analysis and business process integration with product returns, financial credits, and quality processes
- Scheduling: improve on-time delivery to customers and production visibility, and increase factory resource utilization and productivity
- Data Collection: increase the accuracy of collecting data from the factory floor and warehouse inventory movements, and implement process control and fail-safe processes to reduce errors such as cross-contamination
- MSDS: define and record MSDS details against your products to meet industry regulations
