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 practices 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, 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 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 – accurately 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 – centralize customers, supplier and internal business complaints into your ERP system, for analysis and business process integration to product returns, financial credits, and quality processes
- Scheduling – to improve on-time delivery to customers, production visibility and increase factory resource utilization 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