Pharmaceutical Manufacturing ERP – The pain reliever for management headaches:

Pharmaceutical Manufacturing is the process of manufacturing which can be broken down into a series of unit operations such as milling, granulation, coating and pressing. Three of the most critical features companies are looking for in their software are Inventory management, quality management and regulatory compliance.

Key Features:

• Recall Management: Weather there is a recall for a contaminated ingredient or a problem caused from the process, you need to be able to identify all of the affected batches and the customers that receive those batches.
• Shipping: Pharmaceutical companies have many restrictions when it comes to shipping. The system identifying these special requirements and product appropriate shipping labels.
• Expiration Tracking: Ingredients and products can have limited shelf lives, the system needs to track expired and close to end of life inventory.
• Inventory Management: Pharmaceutical ingredients and products are often controlled substances and must be secured. The importance of a detailed inventory system for tracking these controlled substances. They can also have short self lives so they need to be tracked and controlled meaning software with inventory management will automate this for you.
• Quality Management: This feature will include different recipes or mills of material and what each different batch size requires. Batch tracking for both ingredients and products in manufacturing processes are mandatory in this industry in the event of a recall.
• Regulatory Compliance: The mountain of compliance regulations in pharmaceutical manufacturing must not only include with shipping to be documented but disposal must be secure, documented and non-polluting. Software that can track this for you will save you time, money and improve warehouse efficiency.