SAP Business One for Process Manufacturing Industry

The formulas or recipes your production people use need to be exactly the same as your R&D people created them. Your formulas need to be on the computer, but spreadsheets just don’t cut it anymore. You mix ingredients or materials together. Sometimes they undergo a chemical reaction, or you cook the mix, and you need to see the resultant properties. BatchMaster specializes in helping you manage the product development process from sample requests to material property-based formulation to version control right through to production management. And we have a multitude of satisfied customers who have achieved tight formulation control and met all regulatory standards as a result.

BatchMaster® for SAP Business One

Software Features

• BatchMaster® Manufacturing for SAP® Business One
Uses SAP Business One’s DI-API for database updates. Highlights of the integration are:
• Single database
• Single login
• Single Menu – all BatchMaster Manufacturing® screens run from the SAP Business One menu
• Drill-down & Hyper-links between BatchMaster Manufacturing® & SAP Business One
• Customized BatchMaster Manufacturing® fields on SAP Business One screens
• Module Map
BatchMaster Manufacturing® for SAP Business One adds a comprehensive suite of modules to SAP® Business One, encapsulating BatchMaster’s “Split Bill-of-Materials” where the Formula or Recipe is independent of the Finished Goods. The finished products are defined individually as a combination of a quantity (fill-level) of a Formula or Recipe, with a specified grouping of packaging materials (such as bottles, cartons, labels, etc.). This allows a single production batch for a specified formula or recipe to be filled out to many finished products of different sizes, or packaging or label requirements.
• Formulation
BatchMaster Manufacturing® for SAP Business One provides comprehensive formulation management with version tracking and rollback capabilities. Formulas are scalable and materials can be measured in any defined unit of measure. BatchMaster supports multilevel formulas and easy material substitutions. Production yields can be assigned to any formula. BatchMaster is formula and not BOM based, with ingredients added by prescribed proportions measured by either volume or weight.
• Laboratory
The Laboratory module brings the speed, power, and reliability of computerized formulation to your chemists and technicians. The module is comprehensive & flexible enough to meet your specific needs, no matter what types of products you manufacture. Raw material specifications and formula physical properties are user-definable, so you can expect the calculations to perform exactly the way you are accustomed to using them.
• Production
Production batches can be defined as either a finished good or an intermediate. You can size a batch based upon a finished weight or volume or the availability of component materials. Batches can be defined as Fill (bulk to containers), Mix (raw materials and intermediates to finished goods) and Assembly (combination of finished goods to make up a deliverable product). A “critical materials” facility allows you to inquire if any material shortages will interfere with production.
• Lot Tracking
BatchMaster Manufacturing® for SAP Business One provides complete lot traceability – you can follow an item from incoming raw material to the finished good sent to a specific customer. Lot tracking is used for both purchased items and manufactured items. You can choose from several lot issue methods and create custom serial and lot numbers for any item defined in SAP Business One. The item master screen in SAP Business One has been enhanced to extend lot tracking capabilities.
• Compliance
MATERIAL SAFETY DATA SHEETS are entirely automated. Linked to formulas, an MSDS is automatically generated when a formula enters production for the first time or for the first time for a given customer.
• Costing
BatchMaster Manufacturing® maintains a true perpetual inventory on a real-time basis, with the immediate update of both quantities and costs. The Costing module in BatchMaster Manufacturing® for SAP® Business One is for theoretical or “What-if” costing, providing sophisticated, precise calculations based on all factors that affect product cost – including labor, overhead, loss, and more. It will reformulate mixtures to meet desired target costs, and generate detailed analyses of all types of cost-related data instantly. With BatchMaster Manufacturing® for SAP® Business One, you can rely upon advanced tools, coupled with a disciplined methodology, to closely monitor and control your costs, without sacrificing quality.
• Quality Control
BatchMaster Manufacturing® for SAP® Business One's Quality Control features help you to specify target values, control limits and maximum allowable defects. This flexible approach harnesses the QC tests as they are created and defined and allows for a range of test types. Several critical reports for Formula Test, Production output, down to Item Test are available so that you are always in control of your production process.
• Production & Purchase Planning Master Production Schedule (MPS)
Analyzes ‘Demand’ from open production orders, Sales Orders (SAP® Business One), and Forecasts entered. Creates a production plan to meet expected customer delivery dates or anticipated demand for in-stock inventory.
• Material Requirements Planning (MRP)
Plan procurement of raw materials. Once a production plan is firmed up, use MRP to create purchase orders. Picks demand from Firm planned MPS orders, open production batches, Sales orders (SAP® Business One) & Forecasts. MRP reports gives you consolidated information of demand, sources of supplies and MRP generated orders. Transfer a confirmed MRP purchase order to SAP® Business One purchase order.