Life sciences and pharmaceutical companies depend on high sales margins, technological advances and rapid product introductions for strong business growth.  With Process Industries for Microsoft Dynamics AX, enterprise resource planning (ERP) software for pharmaceutical and life sciences manufacturing, you get the tools you need to manage the constrictions of such growth, including shelf life constraints, cost pressures, competition from generic and over-the-counter drugs, and strict regulatory requirements around manufacturing and product approvals

With development costs approaching $800 million for each new product, life sciences and pharmaceutical companies constantly strive to bring products to market quickly, yet control costs by monitoring operations at a detailed level, keeping a close watch on yields and labor, tracking raw material usage, and planning production shifts to maximize capacity.  Process Industries for Microsoft Dynamics AX, provides visibility across all areas of your organization from finance to manufacturing.  Pharmaceutical ERP software speeds the flow of goods, eliminates waste due to costly shelf-life expirations and returns, optimizes production operations and delivers increased efficiency to meet new product introduction demands, while keeping costs at a minimum.

Regulatory agencies and government departments place specific requirements on pharmaceutical manufacturers when implementing manufacturing systems.  Process Industries for Microsoft Dynamics AX for pharmaceutical and life sciences companies supports GMP requirements including electronic quarantines, quarantine release by user and material type, printed material control/obsolete components, lot control/segregation, lot tracking, and drug and hazardous reconciliation.  The solution documents standard processes, and tracks and logs operations and results to support your detailed reporting requirements.  With pharmaceutical ERP software, features such as traceability, lot tracking and traceability, production statistics reporting, specification management and change management provide the control and predictability you need to detect and address exceptions early, and consistently produce the highest quality products.  By tracking items from cradle to grave, your company can implement effective recall procedures with complete forward and backward traceability of any material.

Life sciences and pharmaceutical manufacturers handle active ingredients that are often very expensive in small quantities so they are often reused and/or recycled several times.  Microsoft Dynamics AX, pharmaceutical ERP software, models the processing and reprocessing of such materials.  It also helps minimize over-runs and short-runs, and uses shelf-life tracking to take expiration dates into consideration during production and into the distribution process.  You can also centrally manage co-products and by-products in your formulas or recipes and always know the correct inventory status for any given item.

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