Premium quality – surely you also have this uncompromising demand for the products that leave your company. After all, you know that quality is not just a desirable feature, but a decisive factor influencing the success of your organization.
Especially in the process industry, where complex manufacturing processes, strict regulatory requirements, and competitive pressure are prevalent, quality management plays a pivotal role. Speaking to leading companies in the chemical, pharmaceutical, cosmetics, and food industries, we hear time and again: “We have long-standing, trusting relationships with our customers. They rely on the fact that the quality we deliver is just right.”
But how do you handle this trust placed in you? Let’s examine together:
- How to establish reliable processes for quality assurance and management
- How to use your ERP system SAP Business One
- How to supply your customers with products that meet the highest standards
Thinking Bigger About Quality Management
Things can go wrong in the lab very easily. A minor oversight, such as an overlooked fluctuation in a measured value, and the entire batch will be lost. This irritates the customer who is waiting for their delivery, and it shows up clearly in your cost calculations. As such, quality management is not merely an investment in boosting customer satisfaction; it also helps you save costs.
What’s more, digital lab and test management is ideally suited to establishing optimized, efficient processes throughout your company and supply chains. On the one hand, you can generate transparency and establish control over your processes, while on the other, your entire production benefits from seamlessly interlocking workflows on a homogeneous database.
What Does Good Quality Management Look Like?
Quality management is about more than just collecting data. It is a complex process that encompasses all measures along the entire product life cycle: planning, developing, producing, delivering, testing, and evaluating. In the lab, incoming goods, procurement, and logistics...you can see how it quickly becomes overwhelming. As a result, companies that design their quality management using manual steps quickly reach their limits.
In order to reliably ensure quality, you need an overarching quality management system that coordinates, combines, and controls all these components.
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- Quality planning: defining individual test steps
- Quality management: purchasing resources in a careful, considered manner
- Quality control: automatic monitoring of important parameters in production
- Quality improvement: constantly reviewing and improving processes to achieve higher efficiency, quality, and cost effectiveness
Ideally suited for this is a digital business application that can map complexity in an understandable way and works with the resources and data that are already available via your ERP system.
How Quality Management Works with LIMS
PART LIMS is the quality management tool based on the ERP system of the market leader SAP designed specifically for the process industry. Although the process industry is subject to strict regulatory requirements, you are always on the safe side from a legal perspective with the 100% compliant PART LIMS. Fully integrated with the ERP system SAP Business One, PART LIMS enables you to digitalize quality assurance in your lab and beyond.
Since few SMEs have the time for complicated procedures and extensive technology, PART LIMS makes quality and risk management a breeze. It structures your measures in a meaningful way, suggests best-practice workflows, and automatically notifies you when you should intervene. The tool is intuitive to use and integrates seamlessly into your everyday working life.
You can find all the information you need about PART LIMS in our practical Solution Brief. Download now!
Quality planning with PART LIMS
In PART LIMS, you can create test plans, e.g., to inspect each production batch according to a specified sequence.
You can define:
- When a sample is taken, e.g. directly at the start of production and then every 30 minutes
- At which process step the sample is taken
- Which method or test equipment is used for testing, e.g. measuring the thickness of the bead
- Which threshold values or upper and lower limits are relevant for certain characteristics: e.g. the pH value of your product
In PART LIMS, you also organize labs, testers, test equipment, data types, release types, test locations, and test lots. You can assign these to individual test steps and specific customers.
Acquire, archive, and evaluate data with PART LIMS
In PART LIMS, all your measuring instruments are connected, ensuring no valuable measurement data can be lost. However, collecting data is only half the battle. The weakness of most companies lies in evaluating data optimally.
Data is collected, but little is done with it. With PART LIMS, you will finally become a data-driven company and discover what insights remain hidden in your data.
- All collected measurement data ends up in the centralized LIMS data pool
- The tool presents you with valuable information from the test and measurement results
- Access your test results and related evaluations from anywhere
Implement measures for quality assurance
Thanks to PART LIMS, you immediately recognize when a production step requires your attention. You are alerted if a test results in a threshold value being exceeded. If a test comes back negative, you can automatically block the entire batch and assign new test orders via the tool.
Through your QM control center PART LIMS, you always have the quality of your products in focus and can quickly take the appropriate action to enhance your products.
Retrieve certificates and reports in PART LIMS
Documentation is everything when it comes to quality management. In PART LIMS, there are protocols (audit trails) that can be used to prove beyond doubt which tests took place and what the results were.
Your customer requires a plant certificate? You are undergoing an external environmental audit? You want to evaluate a supplier? With PART LIMS, you have already captured the necessary data in one place and can generate the appropriate certificates and reports in a layout of your choice.
You will find all important information about PART LIMS at a glance in our product brochure. Download now!
SAP Business One & PART LIMS – A Well-Coordinated Team
The SAP Business One ERP system not only controls your business processes; it also contributes to successful quality management. For example, all processes and product batches can be precisely documented, enabling precise traceability in case problems occur and tracking is required.
With the PART LIMS module, SAP Business One can be extended with important QM functions easily and without technical effort. The benefits for you include:
- Systeme greifen ohne Kompatibilitätsverluste ineinander
- Modularer Aufbau passt sich an die aktuellen Erfordernisse Ihrer Geschäftstätigkeit an
- Sie vermeiden fehleranfällige Medienbrüche
- Sie gewinnen transparente Einblicke in Echtzeit und gewohnter SAP-Qualität
- Die Überwachung der Daten erfolgt lückenlos dank reibungslosem Datenfluss zwischen den Systemen
This way, PART LIMS makes a decisive contribution to ensuring that the quality in your company is “just right”, without you having to invest a lot of time and high sums into improving your quality management.
Did you already know? In 2024, PART LIMS will also be available on the SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP). For you, this means being able to use PART LIMS with even greater flexibility. For instance, it will be possible to rent the application on a monthly basis and have variable user numbers.
Are you interested in PART LIMS? We’d be happy to discuss whether the module is a suitable option for you.
