Why FormulationPro?

1. A Solution that reflects the way Process Manufacturing works

Many business software packages that are designed for manufacturing reflect the way discrete manufacturing works. The manufacturing modules are built around a standard Bill of Materials. This simply doesn’t work adequately for process manufacturers, particularly those involved in the production of chemical based products. In more recent years systems have been developed that do work in the right way for your company.

A manufacturing solution for process manufacturers should contain dedicated functionality for all aspects of your business including:

• Industry specific terminology
• Support for multiple formulations and revisions
• Support formulation development
• Wizard driven production requirements
• Batch optimisation and control
• Support and record lab additions
• Multiple QC testing profiles
• Accounting for specific gravity and variable yield etc
• Hazmat and safety datasheets

2. Reduce Complexity

Many process manufacturing companies are running multiple different software systems. There may be an accounts system, a manufacturing system, a system to manage quality control plus a myriad of different excel spreadsheets.

Unfortunately these different system all add layers of complexity, this results in work being duplicated, for example the same data needing to be entered more than once into more than one system. Your I.T staff will also be stretched in maintaining multiple systems that are probably based on differing technologies. In addition you may be paying multiple licensing and support contracts to multiple software suppliers.

A single integrated solution will remove these layers of complexity reducing administration and freeing your staff to concentrate on your core business and giving you a single software supplier to support your business and be accountable. Your chosen integrated solution should use modern technology that is flexible, user-friendly and designed to grow with your business.

Key Benefits:

• Reduce Administration
• Reduce I.T Maintenance
• Single supplier to deal with
• Future-proof, modern technology

3. Improve Business Information

Good business decisions are difficult to make when the necessary information about the state of your business is not available. Different systems will give you different pieces of the puzzle but with non-integrated systems a consolidated picture will be hard to get. Where you are able to extract information from your systems chances are that compiling reports will be a complicated and time consuming process and the report produced static and out of date as soon as it’s produced.

A modern integrated approach will give you real-time reporting capabilities, reports should be produced instantly and should not require you to go to the I.T Department every time you need some information. You should also gain a dashboard giving all staff graphical and constantly updated information about the aspects of the business important to them. The information available from a new system should enable you to run ‘what if’ scenarios and aid your decision making.

Because all of your information is coming from one system you will be able to run reports on any aspect of your business taking a consolidated view on information that would previously have been held in separate silos. For example it would be next to impossible to do stock forecasting where you have separate accounting and production systems.

Key Benefits

• Quicker access to business critical information
• Always up to the minute information
• Consolidated view of information and one version of ‘the truth’