The quality of the products and their adherence to a host of rigorous regulatory standards are paramount in this intricate process of manufacturing. Microsoft Business Central offers a robust platform to execute quality control and compliance. In this blog, find out how Business Central empowers organizations to achieve these critical objectives.
Understand the Challenges of Quality & Compliance.
There exist a number of unique challenges in the context of manufacturing industries, both from a quality and compliance point of view. This includes strict regulatory requirements for food, pharma, chemicals, and other industries with strong needs for rigorous documentation and traceability in terms of origin material sourcing, movement of products throughout the supply chain, and quality and recall management. On top of this, each batch is required to be managed with lot information, expiry, and lot traceability for compliance and consumer safety.
Microsoft Business Central Has The Solution
Within one package, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central maintains a comprehensive suite of tools to help address these challenges:
- Business Central helps with lot and batch number management with expiration dates and hold/produce-to-release procedures.
- It helps businesses with their quality control processes, such as inspection and testing.
- It makes it easy to trace the whole product life cycle from raw materials to finished goods; this will even help in recall management.
- Document management with Microsoft Business Central provides a place for storing and accessing documentation relevant to quality.
- Compliance management: Keeping up with industry-specific regulations, such as FDA, GMP, and ISO compliance, is assisted by manufacturer compliance.
- It gives sophisticated reporting and analytics to identify trends, track metrics of quality, and make decisions based on data.
Best Practice Implementations
These are the best practices to be followed to tap the potential of Business Central for quality and compliance:
- Set up quality goals and KPIs to measure the performance.
- Analyzing your manufacturing process for any improvement areas and automation
- Robust data management: correct entry for data integrity
- Quality alert, corrective action and preventive action
- Training your employees regarding the quality and compliance-related tasks in Business Central.
Conclusion
Considering the various regulatory standards, process manufacturers can efficiently develop product quality, reduce risks, and provide for compliance only through proper utilization of the capabilities in Business Central. Once Business Central is properly implemented, it gives organizations the power of better decision-making and increased operational efficiency, easing ways to build trust with customers.
