I caught up with Emerson’s Lynn Richard about his experiences to help a manufacturer solve this challenge and increase overall productivity.
In addition to the first-to-expire allocation rule, some other ones required include:
To address these challenges and requirements, Lynn and the project team developed an allocation component in the Syncade manufacturing execution system. A mixture of lot and container allocation with lot properties including QC status and warehouse location was designed. The container properties included the location in dispensary and location in customer sample laboratory.
Key logic steps performed in this allocation component include:
Lynn noted that a pick list report could be generated from this allocation. Sections from the report include:
By having the raw material data stored in the system and having logic in the manufacturing execution system check the current status of the raw materials, mistakes and less than optimal decisions could be avoided.
Also, having an electronic record of these additions were important for the electronic batch record created with the batch produced. This allowed products to be released for sale sooner by removing delays associated with manual record keeping and rework from issues discovered after the fact.
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