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lanning Success story
QC are vital processes in the operation of the company, actively involved in each stage of
Fast pace
production, from raw materials and drugs,
The company uses Preactor to plan production
tablet production, through to primary and
across more than 280 resources. The fast pace
secondary packaging. It was therefore vital to
of business forces Central Planning, operating
integrate QC and QA fully into the planning
from the Central Administration, to run MRP at
and scheduling process. At every stage an
least once a week. San Juan inputs all the new
intricate logic of constraints must be taken
data regarding plans and stocks of both raw
into account for each package of raw
materials and intermediate products
materials and drugs to be sampled with
manufactured in San Juan, Buenos Aires and/or
traceability of batches needing to be
third parties into Preactor to update the
maintained for the individual lots of
schedule.
intermediate products. Eduardo Behmer, planning project leader,
UPL can now react much quicker to unexpected changes in customer orders, supplier problems and unplanned maintenance situations and in the case of larger disruptions, perform numerous ‘what if’ scenarios.
A particular feature of the QC processes in
commented: “Preactor is not only a very
the pharmaceutical industry is that they are
efficient scheduling tool, it has also been an
essentially made up of two ‘trains’ of
impressive driving force to improve our
operation; those that correspond to chemical
logistics chain. Preactor has forced us to re-
analysis and those that correspond to
define the parameters included in our MRP
microbiological analysis. These should both
Module including the update of the
flow in parallel and independently. An
suggested orders generated by it, the
Argentina. Headquartered in Munro, Vicente
additional degree of complexity comes from
update of the raw materials lead times, and
López, the company has 2 other locations in
the company’s aim of minimising the stocks of
other logistics parameters with the objective
Buenos Aires with its main manufacturing
intermediate products and minimising total
to improve the starting dates for the
facility located in San Juan province. QA and
production time.
production processes.” n
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