Chemical, food and pharmaceutical industry: Complete transparency and top quality despite batches and MHD.

High quality and safety requirements in the warehouse, a growing market and the resulting increase in the number of batches, present companies in these industries with the challenge of handling logistical processes and workflows more efficiently. This is where our warehouse management software can help with seamless batch tracking, including best-before dates. This makes the associated strict allocation of stock to orders possible without any problems. There is also a module in our warehouse management system for quality assurance.

‍Anabsolute must: complete transparency in the supply chain

It is particularly important for the industry to be able to trace products transparently and without gaps. After all, who is not familiar with the example sentence: "The manufacturer informs that the stocks on the market with the batch number 041021 must be withdrawn from circulation immediately." Now things have to happen quickly and, above all, the manufacturer has to know which stock is meant. Our warehouse management software can support the process through integrated batch management.

In the master data, it is defined which products must be managed with a batch number. If a product is "subject to batch management", the data is already recorded at goods receipt and checked against the configured specifications. This means that it is known within the warehouse in which storage bin which batch is located. The entry can be made manually, by scan or by RFID and is subsequently registered in the system. Depending on the product, different patterns and variants of batch numbers result. The batch number entered remains unchanged during all goods movements - regardless of whether they are internal or external deliveries - and is continuously tracked. Two different batches can be stored in one storage location if they are in different loading equipment on one pallet. Different batches are not mixed in the same loading equipment - for example, in a cardboard box. For outbound deliveries, the recorded batches per delivery can be reported back to the ERP system. In this way, complete batch tracking is possible at any time.

‍Firstexpired - first out

Another feature of products that must be managed in the warehouse is the best-before date (BBD) of a product. The assignment of a best-before date is either done manually via adjustable parameters or is calculated automatically by an assignment of a shelf life in the article master per article.

Alternatively, the MDH can also be transferred to our warehouse management software SuPCIS-L8 via a superimposed system. In the course of preparing the articles for picking, the warehouse management system then automatically decides according to an adjustable principle whether the goods should be picked, for example, according to the First Expired - First Out principle (FEFO).

With the help of the cockpits and dashboards in SuPCIS-L8, the employees in the control center receive full transparency. For example, items that have exceeded a lead time to the best before date can also be automatically blocked for reservation.

‍Safeguarding the quality ofthe goods and creating security in the warehouse

Especially in the chemical, food and pharmaceutical industry, a high level of quality and safety is required. Our SuPCIS-L8 QA inspection module supports and facilitates quality inspection with extensive functions and industry-specific configuration options. Special test steps can be linked on a process basis and placed in the appropriate sequence. In addition, the management of inspection lots and the generation of inspection orders is mapped.

In this process, the connected ERP system transmits an inspection lot to the Warehouse Management System SuPCIS-L8 with further information such as the type and number of products to be inspected. The goods in question are then transported - before they are even available as stock in the Warehouse Management System - to the "Quality Assurance" department, where they are subjected to the respective inspection procedure. Following the inspection, the Warehouse Management System is informed which stocks have been released and can thus be managed and stored as inventory in the warehouse. Another possibility is that the release is integrated in the Warehouse Management System and then a feedback is given to the ERP system or to the Order Management System (OMS).

‍Theresult as a result of implementing SuPCIS-L8: You always have a transparent overview of the supply chain. In this way, defective goods can be quickly and easily identified and removed from circulation. In addition, the use of our warehouse management software ensures a high level of quality, thereby ensuring quality management.

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