- Inventory is owned by the customer
- Each customer’s raw materials, components, ingredients and finished goods often must be segregated
- Each customer needs real time visibility
- Must be able to manage multiple client requirements simultaneously while satisfying customer production delivery deadlines, quality standards and other factors.
- Each customer has their own needs and requirements regarding
- Business Processes
- Billing and Invoicing
- Labeling
- Reporting
- Documentation
- Regulatory compliance
In developing software for contract packagers/re-packagers, contract manufacturers and third party logistics providers, Datex has been mindful of the need for flexibility. Because your business handles numerous customers’ inventory, each with specific needs and requirements, you need software solutions that can be adapted without having to make costly changes to source code.
Datex software is highly flexible, reliable and scalable, enabling you to onboard new customers and generate revenue quickly. With a sophisticated billing engine, the software enables you to capture and bill for all the value-added services your company provides.
- Segregates inventory by ownership
- Bills for all the value-added services you provide
- Simultaneous management of multiple customer requirements
- Access inventory across multiple warehouses & production facilities
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- Accommodates even the most unusual billing requirements
- Easy-to-use billing wizard
- Customize
- Billing
- Operational processes
- Labels
- Invoices
- Documents
- Reports
- And more
- Onboard new clients quickly
- Executes owner transfers seamlessly with comprehensive traceability
- Records “outbound shipment” of original owner’s inventory & “inbound receipt” for new owner without need to physically touch the inventory or perform typical inbound/outbound processes
With a consistent user interface across the Datex suite of supply chain management solutions, users find the software easier to learn, use and master, increasing adoption rates and reducing training time. Using automated data collection devices with Datex software will open up a world of real time, accurate visibility for better decision making.
Datex Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Module
Having a hard time keeping job costs under control and maintaining quality management? Our software is the answer. Using our workflow-based software ensures effective process controls, production planning and quality control in your operations. With a solution designed with complex needs and regulatory compliance in mind, our software solution provides peace of mind and valuable tools to satisfy the needs and requirements of each of your customers.
Production Planning and Scheduling
- Can schedule by equipment
- Schedule single line manufacturing order across multiple production lines & equipment
- Compounding of raw materials
- Kitting, packaging and assembly
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- Provides multi-level Bill of Materials
- Specifies production lines
- Tracks and balances raw materials & inventory during production
- Creates production orders
- Executes kitting and assembly as well as de-kitting
- Schedules, manages, monitors and tracks production and inventory
- Links equipment to product type
- Job costing:
- Can be executed at production order level
- Include cost of labor, materials, supplies & equipment
- Usable during manufacturing feedback process
- Batch costing
Pharmaceutical and Life Science Inventory Management
Businesses such as third party logistics providers (3PLs) and contract manufacturers that deal with third party-owned inventory need flexible, cutting edge software solutions. The Datex manufacturing WMS system provides a suite of tools to make your job easier in minimizing errors, ensuring conformity to standards and reinforcement of process controls.
- Product movement and workflow-based rules are assigned to the client or project
- Automatically manage and decrease inventory based on container type selected during containerization
- Silo and fluid product tracking logic
- Fluid product tank and container logic
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- Manages inventory control for both raw materials and finished goods
- Time-stamped records
- Enables batch scalability
- Lot control
- Catch weight
- Change management
- Executes material transformation (from SKU to SKU, etc.)-ideal for packaging changes
- Automatic advancement of expiration date based on time out of optimal storage conditions
- Provides bidirectional tracking of:
- Lot
- Expiration date
- Serial number
- Executes product recalls
- Streamlines operational processes
- Raw material receipts
- Able to have multiple instances and units of measure of same product or SKU linked to same or different clients (for client-owned inventories)
- Unit of measure levels (length, width, height) available to the .000 (thousandths) level
- Can change expiration lead time on specific instances of inventory
- Can easily design, assign rules to and assign to client or project:
- Forms and labels
- Pick pack lists
- Pack lists
- Bill of Lading (BOL)
- Manifests
- Pick labels
- Product labels
- And more
- PLC, scale and metering systems connectivity
- Forms and labels
Workflow Helps Ensure Complex Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Needs are Met
3PLs and other third party service providers across the pharmaceutical supply chain leverage workflow-driven processes to ensure regulatory compliance, eliminate errors and streamline operations for the highest level of efficiency.
Optional Online Customer Portal
- Facilitates self-serve customer operations
- Quick and easy to set up and administer
- Provides real time visibility of inventory, lots and license plates
- Enables assignment of shipments to new or existing delivery
- Automates report delivery
- Facilitates inbound and outbound order input
Incredibly Flexible, Configurable Third Party Logistic Services Billing Engine
- Workflow-driven billing engine
- User friendly billing wizard
Pharmaceutical Inventory User-Specific Notifications and Alerts
Status updates
- Inventory
- Lead time for expiring products
- QA/QC processes
- Holds
- Quarantines
- Inspections
Microsoft-Based WMS with Familiar User Interface
People fear change. The Datex warehouse management system WMS builds on a familiar user interface that looks and feels like software most people use regularly. Purposely designed with familiarity in mind, our software users tend to become comfortable using our software quickly, improving software adoption rates.
“Datex WMS software is easy to learn. With the high turnover rate in this industry and our reliance on seasonal workers, it is especially important to us that we can train workers quickly to use our warehouse management system."
-Third Party Logistics Operations Director, CA
Shipping Management
- Integrate with manifest system for rate shopping
- True carrier rate shopping at shipping station and during batch mode
- Enables specific client and project rules on carrier services and add-ons including test scenarios
- Performs dangerous goods shipping
- Includes required documentation
- Handles necessary labeling
- Supports data feeds
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- Receives and manages all carrier shipment status updates including
- Delivery dates
- Exception details
- Sign by
- Signature image
- Handles third party billing shipments on the fly on an order-by-order basis
- In batch
- One-by-one
- Integrates with manifest system for delivery confirmation
- Documentation of shipping process and records
- Ability to manifest by day and carrier
- Can consolidate and group shipments by client and project
- Performs carrier shipping email functions
- Email passed email addresses: shipping and delivery confirmations
- Performs international shipping
- Including required customs documents
- Supports data feeds
- Can set up and manage unique client and project business rules to manage shipping selections such as services based on:
- Weight
- Number of containers
- Volume
- Shipping location
- State
- Routing
Returns Processing/Reverse Logistics
- Enables easy return of goods
- Based on client or project
- Enables return of items not originally shipped or set up in the items master
Learn more about industry-specific software for your pharmaceutical business:
WAREHOUSE / DISTRIBUTOR
Real-time warehouse management software for the pharma supply chain.
THIRD PARTY LOGISTICS
Third Party WMS manages inventory of multiple pharmaceutical companies.
MANUFACTURER
Pharmaceutical Companies Use Datex WMS for Quality Control.
HEALTHCARE
Datex Healthcare WMS will reduce costs, boost labor productivity and ensure regulatory compliance.
CONTRACT MANUFACTURER / packager
Multi-client inventory management WMS for contract manufacturing companies.
SPECIALTY PHARMACEUTICAL DISTRIBUTION
Ideal for the Specialty Pharmaceutical Distribution Industry.