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Supply Chain Planning and Scheduling Software for Pharmaceuticals/Cosmetics
Your background
Faced with increasing strict regulations, Quality Control laboratories must endure growing pressure from health authorities (FDA, EMEA, MHWL (Japan)) with respect to Quality Control processes. They therefore must be able to deal with increasingly long quality control processes, which lengthen product cycle times and slow down product release, resulting in higher inventories.
Your constraints
- Laboratories do not produce enough certificates to keep up with production
- Laboratories have problems with processing all the new approval requirements related tests and clinical tests and with increasingly frequent new product introductions
- Late tests are on the rise
- Quality Control costs continually increase without a clear productivity vision
Our answer
The ORTEMS MP-SRP solution enables:
- Mid-term Planning:
- Modeling of work centers (groups of analysts per skill or equipments)
- Long / mid-term load leveling for analysts / equipments
- Short-term Planning:
- Test campaign grouping engine
- Constraint based assignment of tests to analysts & equipments
- Modeling of individual equipment and analysts with:
- calendars (vacations, training for analysts; maintenance for equipments)
- Efficiency
- Priority
- Gantt Charts & Dispatch lists
- Customizable Key Performance Indicators
Additionally:
- Modeling the control hierarchy (batch/samples/tests)
- Linked tests
- Multiple resources (analysts & equipment)
- Test Campaign grouping engine (grouping tests with the same technique or analysis)
- Modeling the unplanned, indirect load (R&D, technical department, stability) with contract dates
- Visualization of load/capacity
- Lists of tasks to be performed by analysts
- Update the schedule with monitoring and automatic rescheduling of subsequent tasks
- Synchronization with production events: real-time simulation of a sample delay
- Alerts based on differences in performance indicators
ORTEMS success stories:
SANOFI-AVENTIS:
- 20% reduction in inventories
- Improvement in customer service rate: lead time simulation in less than one hour
- One month reduction in the new product launch cycle
- Reliability of production commitments communicated to subsidiaries via the Group Intranet
FAMAR:
- 90% increase in customer service rate
- Schedule communication: updated everyday for 100 people on their workstations
- Joint, approved rules that enable sharing a short-/medium-term schedule to have optimal Internal and External Customer Service (compliance with the schedule).
- Solution integrated into the BPCS planning process
- Control over all finite capacity production flows
MSD:
- 50% time savings on schedule creation
- Schedule reliability because constraints are automatically taken into account
- Extension of the planning horizon to 2 weeks
- Better visibility, which enables improving:
- anticipation of future business
- identification of the critical path
