Top 10 ERP requirements for Process Manufacturers
if you're a process manufacturer thinking of investing in a new business solution, due to your industry best practises and regulatory needs, you will have 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 and inspection dates to reduce stock write-offs, obsolesence and increase business profits
- Quality control management - manage production in-process, re-test and goods receipt movements of inventory to incease product quality and safety
- Flexible recipe 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 - to manage product variation as a result of the production process
- Product costing - acurately cost your products, based on the inputs and outputs of the production process, which include yield, scrap, batch size, materials, resources, fixed and variable overheads
- Complaint management - centralise customers, supplier and internal business complaints into your ERP system, for analysis and business process integration to product returns, financial credits and quality processes
- Scheduliing - to improve on-time delivery to customers, production visibility and increase factory resource utilisation and productivity
- Data Collection - increase the accuracy of collecting data from the factory floor, 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