Pharmaceuticals & Cosmetics

These companies normally have batch or continuous process manufacturing. You have common issues of control of mixing bulk product in vats of a fixed size requiring batch bills of material. These are followed by filling lines which process at a totally different rate from the bulk mixing. Key issues are Lot traceability and recall, quality management, recipe management, packaging control.  You want to be able to plan for yields and monitor actual yield.

Quality Management

Aware provides comprehensive Quality Management functions including tracking of all testing performed on the product both during and after production.The system has been through many TGA audits and our clients have been able to meet all the TGA requirements without manual add ons.

Traceability

Full batch control provides seamless tracking of batch numbers throughout the supply chain. From a Finished Product Batch Number all the Batch Numbers of intermediate and purchased products which went into the batch are listed.

Similarly Entry of a Supplier Batch Number shows all batches of Intermediate Product and Finished Product it went into and which shipments to customers included these products.

Formultion Management (Bill of Materials)

These need to allow flexibility of alternative raw materials and often with the preparation of pre-mixes. Standard mix/blend sizes with material percentages in the mix are provided so that you view the materials as either percentages or pick quantities for a mix/blend.

You may want to manage your recipes based on the potency of certain ingredients. You may often plan and make several products simultaneously (co-products). These need to be effectively scheduled and costed.

The final product may be produced in different product pack sizes and the packing process may be seamless with the bulk manufacture or delayed and run as a separate job later.

The Bill of Materials needs to allow for the bulk process with the raw materials and well as the packing process with packaging materials included in the packaging BOM. The Aware Enterprise System provides all this functionality and more.

Marketing Tools

This industry needs comprehensive marketing tools to succeed in a highly competitive environment. The Aware CRM provides the tool for Sales Reps to manage their relationships with their customers. Linked relationships between Hospitals and Doctors can be used to help in marketing of your products. Aware also provides powerful forecasting, pivot table and graphical analysis of the detailed sales data collected over many years. The system integrates seamlessly with third party analysis tools such as Phocas.

Product Certification

Product Certification processes are provided for a product to meet Organic or other Certification requirements.

Routings

These need to provide the option to use alternative processing equipment with different run rates and therefore different costings.

Material Planning

Materials Requirements Planning (MRP) will explode the requirements down through all levels of the Bill of Materials and produces a time phased plan to purchase raw ingredients and packaging materials. Any situation where potential stock shortages may occur are flagged with a priority code for expediting.

Scheduling

You will often have large investments in equipment and often running multiple shifts to improve your return on investment. Consequently, you need to be able to schedule effectively both machines and people to ensure production time is maximised.

The Aware Scheduler will load all unscheduled jobs automatically based on rules you set. The schedule can then be manipulated by your production scheduler to achieve the best result. The Aware scheduler automatically reshuffles all the following jobs when an operation is moved.

Pricing Structures

Complex and highly variable pricing structures are the norm in this industry. Aware offers 15 layers of pricing from a Customer/Product Temporary Price through to high-level Buying Group discount structures.