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The Quality Management Suite (QMS) for Acumatica will allow you to expand your manufacturing quality control (QC) and streamline compliance throughout your supply chain, arming you with the insight you need from production to distribution. Developed by independent software vendor (ISV) eWorkplace Apps using the platform of the popular BatchMaster Software, this add-on seamlessly integrates with your cloud ERP by using the same native code and connecting to your central database. Process manufacturers in spaces such as food and beverage, cosmetics, nutraceuticals and pharmaceuticals will be able to leverage this integration to capture real-time insight and robust supply chain automation within a secure cloud-hosted environment.
QMS adds batch processing capabilities that allow users of Acumatica to build out and keep track of recipes and formulas, and integrate this data with your solution’s existing bill of material (BOM) traceability. This allows you leverage the native features of your ERP while extending functionality beyond the historical discrete manufacturing focus to include comprehensive formulation and electronic recordkeeping, preserving visibility from raw materials to end product. This integration allows process manufacturers to build a technology stack designed for their specific needs, including meeting stricter regulations for consumer transparency.
Here are a few ways how QMS for Acumatica will empower you to ensure manufacturing quality and compliance:
Adding Batch Processing to Acumatica with QMS
This integration builds upon the functionality delivered by Acumatica Manufacturing Edition, but modifies or replaces the more discrete manufacturing features with intricate formulation and batch processing automation. This version includes more specific organization and traceability functions for end products based on recipe and formula, while allowing for customization and flexibility on the user side to match data entry to internal terminology.
The Quality Management Suite grants process manufacturers expanded QC, with the ability to dive deep into the finer details of your batch production procedures and manage individual factors quickly and seamlessly. Track and trace items from raw material ingredients to labeling to inventory, and carefully manage specifications for each stage while avoiding tedious manual entry. Capture real-time insight and dynamic control over every operation without disrupting activities in progress, with end to end visibility over product lifecycles.
Process Manufacturing Built for Acumatica Integration
QMS was designed with intimate knowledge of the Acumatica framework, developed with native tools and provides a seamless integration with the data hosted through your ERP. Process manufacturers are able to call upon information from the core software as well as every module, preventing silos from impacting accuracy and execution. This allows you to capture consistent traceability through every part of your business and quickly make adjustments to connected items without having to access multiple disparate touchpoints.
The Quality Management Suite emulates the functionality and user interface (UI) of the greater Acumatica Manufacturing Edition, ensuring that interactions between every module of your software can continue uninterrupted. Users will be managing the same screens throughout, without having to move in and out of separate solutions to execute on individual workflows. With the flexibility to generate and maintain your own definitions for weight, volume and losses, your manufacturing system will consistently reflect the reality on the production floor.
Traceability in the Cloud & Compliance Reporting Automation
Cloud ERP grants a greater level of visibility than legacy on-premise systems that are isolated to their local silos without manual migration and updates. Leveraging SaaS (software as a service) for process manufacturing enables more consistent traceability when armed with the right functionality, as insight into batch production and inventory management can be captured in real-time. Your data will live hosted in a secure environment that can be accessed with the right role-based permissions from any device, including mobile computers such as a smartphone or tablet.
Combined with flexible user-defined fields and regulatory software updates, QMS for Acumatica empowers you to leverage automation for compliances processes while preserving accuracy through cloud functionality. Adjustments to ingredients, recipes and more can be executed dynamically, but without disrupting your ongoing production run so the integrity of your formulas will remain consistent per batch. Electronic recordkeeping connected to your hosted database will allow you to produce comprehensive reporting that includes every relevant detail down to the resource level.
Why Process Manufacturers Need Acumatica Cloud ERP
Process manufacturing differs from discrete in how materials are used in developing product, with the former being unable to repurpose ingredients once they are processed. Accuracy and consistency are required to maintain ROI for each run, which is why deploying the right technology stack will make all the difference in maximizing this value return. Acumatica delivers a robust platform that can be used as a solid foundation to build a comprehensive, end to end supply chain management system that provides manufacturers with real-time visibility and automation.
Acumatica Provides a Pathway to the Future of Manufacturing
The future of process manufacturing lies in how new and emerging technologies are being harnessed, with cloud computing a top contender among tools that include AI, machine learning and the Internet of Things (IoT). However, the key factor is that the usage of many of these advancements is tied together and the deployment of one generates value for deploying another. Manufacturers must have a system in place that will allow them to be able to review and add these solutions based on the gaps they can fulfill in their processes, while still integrating seamlessly with each other.
Acumatica has disrupted the ERP marketplace by continuing to develop improvements over traditional enterprise systems. One of SWK’s own manufacturing customers chose this over a more mature enterprise software due to upgrades the platform received during their discovery phase, which signaled the growth the application was capable of. With real-time access through the cloud, users will also receive these updates in the background as they are released instead of requiring a huge manual migration to replace legacy code.
Food & Beverage Regulations Require Digital Transformation
Food and beverage manufacturing and processing is a considerably regulated sector, with the FDA rolling out even more complex requirements to fight an increase in recalls as well as supply chain disruptions from the 2020 pandemic. The most comprehensive of these initiatives, the New Era of Smarter Food Safety, seeks to achieve this in part by promoting a greater adoption of digital transformation throughout this supply chain, on the basis that it will facilitate more consistent transparency.
This Blueprint signals a new way of thinking among regulators, in that technology is not just a luxury for enabling traceability, but an obligation to propel its execution. The speed at which data moves through a modern supply chain can put any process manufacturer at risk of overlooking small but critical details, which by extension will inevitably impact consumers. Food and beverage, and many other sectors, will require a robust manufacturing ERP that includes comprehensive quality assurance automation to prevent non-conformance as much as possible.
Learn More About QMS for Acumatica
The QMS integration with Acumatica will enable you to ensure consistent quality control and assurance for your batch processing operations, providing you with the end to end traceability you need to successfully manage your end products. Discover how to fully take advantage of this functionality to meet compliance by viewing SWK’s webinar with eWorkplace Apps.
Register here to watch the QMS webinar and discover how to best leverage this integration for process manufacturing automation.