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Supply Chain Planning and Scheduling Software for Pharmaceuticals/Cosmetics
Challenges for the Pharmaceutical industry
Faced with merging of market shareholders, you must be able to:
- Maximize use of your capacities to deal with strong growth
- Reduce your costs to deal with competition from generics
- Reduce your cycle times to accelerate new product introduction
- Decrease your inventories for which the costs and risks of becoming obsolete are high
- Centralize planning and improve information sharing within the company and with your suppliers and customers
- Quickly react to changes in the market
Our answer
Optimize and synchronize your production flows
Our solutions make it possible to reduce costs and increase flexibility.
ORTEMS PS-SRP Pharmaceutical solution:
- Finite capacity optimization: machines, equipment, labor, raw materials.
- Synchronize various levels of bills of material
- Optimize production campaigns in the various production stages
- Optimize semi-finished product and raw material inventories
- Provide overall optimization of the company (versus local optimization of a workshop)
- Provide traceability from manufacturing to packaging
- Provide an optimized, dynamic and feasible schedule
- Provide a flexible schedule that is responsive to unforeseen events
- Provide decision-support through increased visibility
ORTEMS PS-SRP takes into account the specific requirements of the pharmaceutical industry:
- Traceability of pharmaceutical batches
- Links between WOs/synchronization between certain stages
- Changeovers on both reactors and packaging lines and according to product sequences
- Incompatibility between products or processes
- Limited number of dies and punches
- Taking into account weighing
- Clean rooms and means capacities (rooms, stoving)
- Tank management
Advantages:
- Reduction in production cycle times
- Decrease in raw materials inventories through pull flow supply based on finite capacity sequencing
- Minimization of changeovers on production and packaging lines
- Better anticipation and optimization of the use of personnel
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 introduction 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 PCs
- 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 the whole production process at finite capacity
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
