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Process Manufacturing Software: Enabling Effective Product Shelf Life Management

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010 by admin

Strong process manufacturing software solutions like Enterprise 21 can enable companies to establish an effective product shelf life management program. Within the system, one can establish shelf life parameters by product group or category. For example, certain classes of products may have a predetermined shelf life of 90 days from the date of manufacture while others may have a 120 day shelf life. Specific lots of ingredients and/or finished goods will have expiration dates associated with those items based on how these parameters are established. Read More…

The Enterprise 21 ERP system enables the allocation of products on a first expire, first out (FEFO) methodology – both for the consumption of ingredients and intermediaries in manufacturing processes and for finished goods shipment to customers. Additionally, one can manage retesting of products through the establishment of parameters relative to how near an item’s expiration date it is desired to retest a product’s remaining shelf life.

As products reach their retest periods, the system can place those items on quality hold automatically, and quality control personnel can be alerted as to the need to perform the retesting process to determine the remaining shelf lives for those items. Based on those test results, one can establish new expiration dates for those items and release those items from quality hold back into active inventory. Should there be excess inventory approaching expiration dates, the company’s sales organization can be alerted that it may need to run a product promotion or special to move those items from inventory prior to it reaching those expiration dates.

There may be instances in which certain customers may require a guaranteed minimum shelf life for the products they purchase. In these cases, there are parameters that can be defined within Enterprise 21 noting a given customer’s requirements for guaranteed shelf life on a product-by-product basis. Then, when one of these customers has product being allocated to its sales order line items, the FEFO methodology can be overridden to make sure the customer’s guaranteed shelf life requirements are being met.

The Enterprise 21 system will help enable process manufacturing companies to minimize their exposure to products needing to be thrown away or sold at a substantially reduced cost while concurrently meeting customer guaranteed shelf life requirements through the combination of first expire, first out product allocation, product retest procedures, and guaranteed customer shelf life management capabilities.

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Food Processing Software: Improving Salmonella Analysis Tracking and Reporting

Monday, December 21st, 2009 by Alex Smith

In 2009, the food and beverage industry saw peanuts, pistachios, and prepackaged refrigerated cookie dough recalled and pulled off the shelves at retail stores and warehouses across the country for one reason: salmonella contamination. Many food and beverage businesses were then forced to shut down their operations for good, as their food processing software solution did not give them the ability to record and track raw ingredient lot numbers from suppliers, when those lot numbers were consumed in manufacturing, finished good lot numbers, and the finished good lot numbers that were ultimately shipped to end customers. As a result, businesses were forced to recall EVERYTHING that could have potentially been produced with a contaminated ingredient, a bad situation if you make packaged nuts and trail mixes. Read More…

To gain improved salmonella analysis tracking and reporting, food processors and distributors can leverage Enterprise 21’s food ERP software and integrated lot traceability functionality in a number of ways. First, raw ingredients purchased from suppliers can be flagged to be placed on quality hold each time the ingredient arrives into inventory. When the ingredient arrives into inventory, the receiving department would record, either manually or with RF and barcode devices, the ingredient that was received, the quantity that was received, and the lot number(s) for the ingredient received. The ingredient would then be placed in a holding area awaiting quality inspection. It is important to note that the ingredient received would not yet be released into available inventory to be consumed in manufacturing. Following the receipt of the ingredient, a person in the quality control/assurance department would be automatically notified that the ingredient was awaiting his or her inspection. As quality control personnel inspected the product, they could enter inspection values directly into Enterprise 21. Assuming the product is determined to be acceptable, it would then be approved and released into available inventory. If the product does not meet inspection criteria, the product can be rejected, and the quality department can specify a reason code for why the product was rejected.

Secondly, manufactured items can automatically be placed on quality hold each time a given item is produced. Again, as items are produced, they can be placed in a holding area awaiting quality inspection and testing for salmonella. Enterprise 21 would automatically notify the quality control department that a given item has been produced and is awaiting inspection. Quality control personnel can then test the manufactured product, enter inspection data into Enterprise 21, and then approve or disapprove the product to be released into available inventory for customer purchases. Inspection data can also be used to generate a Certificate of Analysis (COA), and this COA can be set to accompany the finished good each time the product is shipped to a customer.

Aside from improving the organization’s quality control inspection process and attaining improved visibility to quality inspection data, food and beverage companies’ customers will be much more comfortable doing business with an organization that can clearly demonstrate that any product shipped to them has been rigorously tested for salmonella contamination prior to shipment. This improvement in customer service ensures that the food manufacturer or distributor is adequately prepared for a product recall should one arise and increases the likelihood of repeat customer purchases given the sophisticated quality control and reporting mechanisms the organization has in place.

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Enterprise 21’s Process Manufacturing Software Functionality Enables Process Manufacturers to Establish Procedures and Controls Necessary to Meet GMP Compliance

Thursday, November 19th, 2009 by admin

Process Manufacturers continue to strive to remain compliant with current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP). At the core of cGMP are documented, repeatable procedures and strong controls. So, what is the role of an ERP system like Enterprise 21 in cGMP? It becomes a key enabler of the control aspects for process manufacturing enterprises including food, chemical, and life sciences manufacturers. Read More…

First, there needs to be control in the ingredients being acquired for use in the manufacturing processes. Suppliers need to be qualified and held to high standards. Good ERP systems like Enterprise 21 enable companies’ purchasing organizations to establish criteria for the qualification of vendors and suppliers. Once given vendors become approved, they can be enabled in Enterprise 21 as valid suppliers for the manufacturer to do business with while monitoring supplier performance over time.

As ingredients go through various processes, Enterprise 21 documents and time stamps each of these transactions and their associated operators for complete traceability of those parties involved at every step in the chain. These processes include:

Receiving,

Movement to a quality control holding area,

Quality control evaluation, approval, and release for use,

Product putaway,

Manufacturing picking and staging,

Consumption in manufacturing, and

Putaway of any excess inventory not consumed in manufacturing.

Before manufacturing occurs, authorized personnel can establish one or more manufacturing processes by which to produce a given product and the product’s associated formulation and recipe. The identities of the personnel who establish the production routings and associated formulations are documented in the system, as are the identities of all personnel involved in the workflow process to review and approve these items prior to their release for production.

When a product is being produced, the manufacturing personnel involved in the processes associated with that production are recorded in Enterprise 21. Also, electronic signatures can be used for supervisory personnel and management to sign off at key points during the manufacturing processes acknowledging the product has been made in accordance with documented procedures and associated safety standards.

As the product is produced, it too will undergo a series of quality assurance tests in order to gain approval for shipment to customers. The individuals who perform the QA tests are documented in the system, as are the warehouse personnel who move and put away the finished goods inventory. Finally, as sales orders are entered for given items, the personnel who pick, pack, and ship the finished goods to fulfill those customer orders are also documented in the system.

In addition to the documented controls of all individuals involved in the complete process from ingredients to customer shipments, all associated lots are recorded in Enterprise 21 to enable complete womb-to-tomb lot traceability. Ingredient lots from suppliers flow into manufactured lots of produced products, which are ultimately shipped to customers.

Strong ERP systems like Enterprise 21 enable process manufacturers to meet cGMP guidelines through the complete product and process flow throughout the manufacturing enterprise.

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Process Manufacturing: Managing Batch Processing and Fill Lines

Friday, October 16th, 2009 by admin

Many process manufacturers have operations where they will produce a common product that is then packaged into a variety of containers for various customers. These manufacturers will frequently produce this common product via a batch process. This formulation produced may be an intermediate that then gets combined with other items to produce finished goods, or it may itself be a finished good awaiting packaging operations. Read More…

After the batch is produced, the product can either be moved immediately to filling operations or placed in drums and stored in the warehouse for some period of time. Once the formula is in the filling operation, finished goods are produced in various sized containers with associated product labeling to meet customer demands.

So, how does Enterprise 21’s process manufacturing software functionality enable these batch process manufacturers to perform their jobs efficiently? First, one can establish a scalable batch formula that consists of the various ingredients needed to produce the intermediate formulation. The formulation can be setup as a recipe, where the ingredients and associated process instructions are combined in an order of operations to produce the desired output. Where necessary, the recipe can also have electronic signatures required for individuals to sign off at various checkpoints during the process for compliance and quality assurance purposes.

The formulation may have certain ingredients that are generally over consumed as part of the production process. Let’s say that a given production process may require a standard of 100 pounds of a given ingredient to produce a given batch size; however, if that process is not 100% efficient, the system can enable the planning of consumption of more than 100 pounds of that ingredient – say 102%, or 102 pounds of that ingredient for the given batch size in consideration. In this situation, Enterprise 21’s yielding functionality within the formulation is used in the procurement and production staging processes to account for the fact that 102 pounds of the given ingredient are needed to perform the given operation.

Once the intermediate formulation is produced, there may be a period of time necessary for cooling required before the output can be packaged into a drum or moved to the filling operations. In this case, one can build queue time into the end of the given production routing step so the associated cooling time is accounted for prior to scheduling and ultimate performance of that next operation. This is done within Enterprise 21’s manufacturing routing functionality.

Finally, the filling operations can be scheduled as a series of work orders to produce the ultimate finished goods. The bills of material for the various finished goods would, at a minimum, be comprised of the intermediate formulation produced as described above, the appropriate container for the given product, and its associated label.

In addition to the functionality described above, Enterprise 21 also manages product costing – average, standard, LIFO, or FIFO – on a product-by-product basis, all of the associated inventory and warehouse transactions including complete womb-to-tomb lot traceability to support recall management, and all associated financial accounting transactions in a real-time, fully-integrated system.

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Reportable Food Registry – Food and Beverage Processors Must Now Report Issues within 24 Hours via the FDA’s RFR Electronic Portal

Monday, September 21st, 2009 by admin

As of September 9, 2009, food and beverage processors are mandated to report all reportable food incidents to the FDA’s Reportable Food Registry when, “there is reasonable probability that an article of food will cause serious adverse health consequences.” This mandate applies to all food facilities that manufacture, process, pack, or hold food for human or animal consumption in the United States. Details of this program are available via the FDA’s Reportable Food Registry resource Web page. Read More…

The program includes reporting key data during an initial disclosure and via follow-up reports including items such as the date the article of food was determined to be reportable, a description of the food including quantity and amount, the extent or nature of the adulteration, the result of investigation to determine the cause of the adulteration, disposition of the article of food, and product information typically found on packaging sufficient to identify the article of food.

Once the submission is completed, a confirmation page identified via an Individual Case Survey Report ID (ICSR), including all submitted information, is produced. This report can be saved as a PDF file and associated with key data elements in the food and beverage processor’s Enterprise 21 ERP system, including customer incident reporting, lot traceability data, and associated customer shipments.

Food and beverage processors are strongly encouraged to review their Comprehensive Recall Management plans and make appropriate adjustments based on the FDA’s Reportable Food Registry mandate. For an overview of the Reportable Food Registry, please review the FDA’s “Reportable Food Registry (RFR): At a Glance” document.

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Real Production Scheduling in ERP Systems: Servicing Short-cycle Demand in a Mixed Make-to-Stock and Make-to-Order Environment

Wednesday, September 9th, 2009 by admin

Most of the manufacturing entities with which we come into contact want to use their new ERP system for production scheduling purposes. One of the first questions that people tend to ask us regarding this topic is, “Can you change production schedules via drag and drop?” While this feature demos well, there are far more sophisticated questions that should be asked of ERP software vendors relative to production scheduling functionality. Read More…

Almost all manufacturing companies with whom we talk share the following characteristics:
•   They are capacity constrained in at least some portion of their production environment.
•   They run a mix of make-to-stock and make-to-order production.
•   There are certain products that may be produced on a very short lead time (as hot orders) that could be thrown into the production schedule the same day they’re ordered by customers.
•   There are complexities to process changeover in such a manner that producing all products of a given family or with certain shared characteristics (i.e., all products of the same color in a painting operation) is imperative to maximize production throughput and minimize off-spec production and process changeovers.

One of the first questions that a manufacturer should ask potential software vendors is whether their system performs finite capacity scheduling or infinite capacity scheduling. With finite capacity scheduling, one can establish process and machine capacities which can be taken into account. By doing so, the manufacturer who is capacity constrained can establish a realistic tentative production schedule by not allowing the system to produce a scenario that couldn’t possibly be performed. If, for example, you only have production capacity within a given work center or have associated labor availability to produce 300 units of a given item per hour, it makes absolutely no sense to have your ERP system generate an unconstrained production schedule with 3-4 fold that amount of production per hour being assumed to run through that work center or with the given number of laborers.

Next, what capabilities does the given ERP system have to manage both make-to-stock and make-to-order production? Make-to-stock production would generally be scheduled based on a signal – either traditional time-phased inventory management processes like MRP or via an electronic signal of similar nature. Make-to-order production would be done by enabling business rules within the system to evaluate the given finished good’s bill of materials or formula, determine whether or not all required raw materials and ingredients were available, and if not, when they could be available via supply chain management, what available production capacity exists to produce the given item, and having the system schedule the production while concurrently generating any required purchase requisitions. Within Enterprise 21, this description of capabilities embodies the collective functionality of Available and Capable to Promise plus Make-to-Order and Automated Supply Chain processing.

Assuming your organization runs with make-to-order processing and allows customers to place such orders on short cycle times (i.e., produced the same day they’re ordered), then it is imperative to leave production capacity available for the placement of these make-to-order items on the same day’s production schedule. For example, if your organization runs two, eight-hour production shifts, and typically has four hours of short-cycle make-to-order production to perform each day, then it makes sense to set up your finite capacity scheduling processes to assume a maximum of twelve hours for make-to-stock production for the given day.

Finally, ERP systems like Enterprise 21 enable scheduling using schedule groups. In this case, products with like scheduling characteristics can be placed in the same scheduling group and these items would be placed in the production schedule consecutively. As well, one can establish scheduling group rules such that certain scheduling groups would follow the completion of other scheduling groups. As an example, in a painting operation where products being produced were white, red, and blue respectively, this would be a likely ordering of production to try to minimize the production of pinks and purples as color changeover occurred.

Similarly, where applicable, manufacturers should be able to build machine “clean out” or “wash down” time into the production schedule between the production of two different schedule groups. For example, a food manufacturer who produces certain items that contain peanuts or other food allergens followed by other items that cannot contain peanuts on the same production machine will need to have machine clean out time built into the production schedule between those two respective schedule groups.

So, if you’re a manufacturer with any reasonable level of complexity in your manufacturing processes, don’t be drawn like a moth to the flame during software demonstrations. Dig deeper into ERP systems’ manufacturing scheduling functionality so you have a broader set of requirements beyond, “Does your production scheduling system support drag and drop functionality?”

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Improving Operational Efficiency and Pricing Accuracy through Commodity Market-based Pricing

Friday, July 17th, 2009 by admin

Within numerous food industries, including the cheese market, it is a common scenario for two businesses to agree to transact business together in a buy-sell relationship with the pricing set relative to a commodity market. For example, a given company may import cheese from another entity and then cut and pack that cheese for their retail customer base. The cut and pack business may elect to buy a given Swiss cheese at $0.10 per pound above the Block and Barrel weekly market average based on the date of manufacture while agreeing to sell their cut and packed finished product for $0.15 per pound above this same market based on the date of shipment. Read More…

There are varying methods by which the cut and packaging company may choose to manage its business relative to these pricing methods. One method would be that personnel could manage the vendor and customer pricing records directly for the specific vendor and customer described above.

Alternatively, by using commodity market-based pricing functionality, one could establish the specific Block and Barrel weekly market average as the basis for pricing in this example. Then, within vendor and customer pricing records respectively, one could establish that the given Swiss cheese supplier has agreed to sell the cheese to the cut and pack organization at an overage of $0.10 per pound based on the date of manufacture of the cheese. Likewise, within customer pricing for the specific example above, a customer pricing record would be established for a given retail customer such that they would be billed an overage of $0.15 per pound relative to the given commodity market average based on date of shipment.

In either case, the system would establish a purchase order with the supplier and a customer order with the given retail customer respectively for the proper pricing based on these agreements; however, the method by which pricing updates would be made would vary by these two methods. In the case where the exact pricing is set up for the vendor and customer respectively, each time the commodity market pricing would change, the specific vendor and customer pricing would need to be updated directly. On the other hand, if the pricing records were managed relative to the given commodity market pricing, only the reference market-based pricing would need to be updated – either manually or electronically – and the associated vendor and customer pricing records which reference the given commodity market price would be updated automatically.

While this process may not appear to save any time when we’re talking about an example with only one vendor supplying one product and one customer buying one product, you can imagine how much more complex this can be when there are dozens of vendors supplying a wide variety of products which can be cut and packed to yield hundreds of finished goods for a multitude of customers. In this case, by setting up the reference commodity markets and associated vendor and customer pricing records once and allowing the system to automatically calculate the appropriate contract pricing as the various commodity market prices move up and down, there can be tremendous gains in time efficiency by managing the pricing in this manner. In addition, since the pricing is set up once with the movement of reference commodity markets kept in only one place in the system, the potential for errors in pricing of purchases and sales is likely to be substantially reduced.

By using strong ERP systems like TGI’s Enterprise 21, food-based businesses and organizations in other industries that leverage commodity market-based pricing as a norm can save time and money while reducing the possibility of errors through market-based pricing functionality on the procurement and customer sales sides of their businesses.

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Creating Certificates Of Analysis And Pedigree Documents For Process Manufacturing

Friday, June 26th, 2009 by admin

Safety and control – these are two words that are commonly heard when discussing key elements in today’s life sciences and food and beverage industries. Public and private sector entities alike are taking more action to make sure companies who do business in these industries are adhering to strong safety and control practices. Read More…

One of the ways in which businesses work to protect themselves and those with whom they do business is by receiving and making readily available certificates of analysis (commonly referred to as COA’s) from suppliers along with the ingredients they buy for use in manufacturing operations. COA’s are documents which provide a quantitative analysis across a series of properties for the associated item. For example, a COA for soya lecithin powder or ginger extract would generally include microbiology results for properties such as total plate count, E.coli, and salmonella levels, as well as a variety of other properties.

Life sciences and food and beverage companies will typically receive ingredients and automatically place them on quality hold upon receipt. Then, these businesses will alert quality control (QC) specialists that there are items that need to be inspected prior to their release for use.

The QC department will run a series of tests on samples of the given product received and verify that the properties on the COA match up with the properties of the product being tested. Assuming these tests pass muster, the product is then released for further consumption in a manufacturing process. Should the product not pass the QC tests, laboratory personnel will then run further tests while involving the supplier’s QC personnel to help evaluate potential issues with the ingredients before determining what to do next.

These same types of QC tests are performed on finished goods which are manufactured by life sciences and food and beverage companies prior to their release for shipment to their customer base. Again, a COA is created to accompany the specific lot of produced product to the manufacturing company’s customers.

Another document which is becoming more prevalent in the life sciences industry is a pedigree document. A pedigree document traces the complete chain of custody of the given end item from original manufacturer through various distributors until it finally reaches a retailer for sale. State governments such as Florida have a predefined prescription drug pedigree document which must be passed along the supply chain with each associated company adding its information and signing off on the document throughout the channel.

Strong business management systems like TGI’s Enterprise 21 ERP system can be used by life sciences and food and beverage companies to automate and maintain strong product safety and control procedures including the creation of certificates of analysis and drug pedigree documents.

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Establishing and Maintaining a Comprehensive Recall Management System

Friday, June 5th, 2009 by admin

What do pistachios, cough and cold medicine, cheese, dietary supplements, cookies, fruit and nut blend, and alfalfa sprouts all have in common? They all appeared on the US FDA’s recalls, market withdrawals, and safety alerts list during April 2009. Read More…

Many companies that believed they were immune to this process have recently had to initiate recalls. Some of these companies were so ill-prepared they had to close their doors due to poor preparation for such a possibility.

So, what do companies in life sciences and food and beverage industries need to do to make certain they are well prepared for a potential recall initiation? Companies need to have automated lot tracking software functionality and a comprehensive recall management system in place. At the core of a comprehensive recall management system are well-defined policies and procedures to be followed in the event of a recall.

The Ohio State University Extension published an excellent article on this subject titled, “What Can You Do to Be Ready for a Recall?” which overviews what companies can do to avoid the potential need for a recall and a high-level summary of the procedures that should be followed in the event that it becomes necessary to initiate a recall respectively.

Key points made about how to avoid a recall include having a Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) plan in place, complying with the FDA’s current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP) regulations, developing and maintaining quality management systems, developing a food security and tampering prevention program consistent with the FDA’s Bioterrorism/Food Safety Security Act of 2003, and ensuring quality of raw materials by working with credible suppliers. When defining a recall plan, one must pay special attention to the key element of such a plan which is fact gathering about the defective product. This includes both internal and external discovery.

In TGI’s Enterprise 21 ERP system, service and support functionality can be used as a coordination point for external discovery. This includes logging of all support calls, routing to appropriate resources for investigation, and documenting and tracking the associated resolution. A recall coordinator would be alerted should the problem be determined to be of sufficient nature and require immediate action.

Enterprise 21 manages internal discovery by supporting complete chain of custody tracking through lot traceability of inbound ingredients, their consumption in manufacturing processes which can yield intermediates, and ultimately to finished goods which are shipped to customers. In addition, quality data is recorded for each lot during this process. Enterprise 21 supports both forward and backward lot traceability.

Through a combination of policies and procedures, along with strong system functionality for quality management and lot traceability, TGI customers leverage the Enterprise 21 ERP system as a key element of their comprehensive recall management systems.

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Despite a Troubled Economy, the 2009 International Dairy-Deli-Bake Show Should be a Fruitful Event for Exhibitors and Attendees

Friday, May 29th, 2009 by Alex Smith

For the past several years, TGI has been a consistent exhibitor at the International Dairy-Deli-Bake (IDDBA) show. This year will be no different, as we will be exhibiting at the 2009 IDDBA show held in Atlanta, Georgia June 7-9. Surprisingly, it looks as though we will be one of the only, if not the only, food processing software suppliers exhibiting at this year’s show. Read More…

Given the current state of the economy, it is certainly common for companies to scale down their normal trade show calendar. It is also highly likely that in addition to fewer exhibitors, overall attendance at trade shows across the country will be lower in 2009 compared to prior years. Trade shows require a significant investment in employees’ time and company money for both exhibitors and attendees; however, unlike many industries, the food and beverage industry has been largely unaffected by the downturn in the economy in 2008 and 2009. If you think about it, food is one of life’s absolute necessities – people are always gonna have to eat! Unlike new cars, flat screen TV’s, and other “luxury” items (like my girlfriend’s weekly, and unnecessary, manicure and pedicure), food is a must no matter what the state of the economy may be. In fact, numerous studies have shown that in times of economic downturn, people actually eat more! I recently read an article in the May 2009 issue of Food Processing magazine that stated that despite the economy, food processors are increasing their overall dedication to new product development compared to prior years, a clear sign that food companies are making strategic moves to differentiate themselves from the competition.

As I result, I anticipate attendance at this year’s IDDBA show to be relatively strong despite the existing economic climate. The IDDBA show provides an ideal avenue for cheese, dairy, deli, and bakery companies to showcase their new products to thousands of attendees at a time when food consumption and new product development is on the rise.

For more information on the 2009 IDDBA show, please visit www.iddba.org. If you are attending the IDDBA show, please feel free to stop by and visit us at booth 4070.

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