Most companies need to incrementally improve their processes, information, and systems to achieve holistic product safety and compliance. By using a risk-benefit and cost-benefit analysis strategy, companies can identify areas to start with, and gradually close product safety risk holes. As they adequately control an area of risk, they can incrementally move to the next area of improvement and incrementally minimize risks.
To that end, companies should develop a master plan to holistic product safety. This overall plan should include:
* Holistic Enterprise Asset Management (EAM);
* Holistic Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) with Design for Compliance, Quality and Product Safety tenets;
* Material and Product Screening and Control;
* Optimized Scheduling and Planning with Product Safety and Capable to Promise (CTP) Constraints;
* Shaping Demand to Improve Compliance; and
* Risk Management.
Holistic Enterprise Asset Management
Leaky pipes or roofs, metal shavings from poorly maintained equipment that fell into packaging processes, inadequate sanitation procedures, and other asset maintenance issues have lead to several high profile product recalls and corporate embarrassments. Effective preventative maintenance capabilities within EAM systems like Infor EAM Enterprise Edition [evaluate this product] not only reduce product quality and safety risks, but also increase asset availability and extend the lifecycle of assets. Effective preventative maintenance (including reliability centered maintenance [RCM]) or stopping the usage of any “out of tolerance” conditions proactively improves product safety, minimizes write-offs, and improves fill rates (customer service).
Design for Compliance, Quality and Product Safety
In contrast to Lawson’s 4P approach in Part 1, Infor considers PLM as a focal system of record. Allergen labeling and claim substantiation recalls, home handling and usage instructions, supplier enablement, and designing products for compliance, quality, and food safety issues (including design for environment [DfE]) are all supported by integrated PLM processes. Starting with initial material testing via release of a product to localization at a plant, a PLM system controls more data about compliance, quality, and safety than any other application.
Trial protocols to ensure that companies are testing for the right issues can be developed within the product and seamlessly integrated to QA processes. Full labeling and compliance documentation by end-user, market, and country can be automatically generated.
With the increased use of outsourcing and pushing more research and development (R&D) tasks out to suppliers, manufacturers will strive to protect intellectual property (IP). Process manufacturing PLM solutions like Infor PLM Optiva [evaluate this product] should allow suppliers to disclose all the risks while protecting vendors’ IP.
To that end, secure constituent formulas manage compliance data and provide masked R&D material data as necessary. When a compliance issue arises with a material that has critical security, compliance managers can search across this secure data and find other similar materials to proactively address other potential issues.
Designing with built-in quality, compliance, and sustainability in mind will minimize the time and cost to scale, ensure product safety, and improve the product success rates. In parallel, companies can benefit from reduced costs, improved product performance, sustainability, minimized time-to-market (TTM), and ensured product’s regulatory compliance.
To that end, companies should develop a master plan to holistic product safety. This overall plan should include:
* Holistic Enterprise Asset Management (EAM);
* Holistic Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) with Design for Compliance, Quality and Product Safety tenets;
* Material and Product Screening and Control;
* Optimized Scheduling and Planning with Product Safety and Capable to Promise (CTP) Constraints;
* Shaping Demand to Improve Compliance; and
* Risk Management.
Holistic Enterprise Asset Management
Leaky pipes or roofs, metal shavings from poorly maintained equipment that fell into packaging processes, inadequate sanitation procedures, and other asset maintenance issues have lead to several high profile product recalls and corporate embarrassments. Effective preventative maintenance capabilities within EAM systems like Infor EAM Enterprise Edition [evaluate this product] not only reduce product quality and safety risks, but also increase asset availability and extend the lifecycle of assets. Effective preventative maintenance (including reliability centered maintenance [RCM]) or stopping the usage of any “out of tolerance” conditions proactively improves product safety, minimizes write-offs, and improves fill rates (customer service).
Design for Compliance, Quality and Product Safety
In contrast to Lawson’s 4P approach in Part 1, Infor considers PLM as a focal system of record. Allergen labeling and claim substantiation recalls, home handling and usage instructions, supplier enablement, and designing products for compliance, quality, and food safety issues (including design for environment [DfE]) are all supported by integrated PLM processes. Starting with initial material testing via release of a product to localization at a plant, a PLM system controls more data about compliance, quality, and safety than any other application.
Trial protocols to ensure that companies are testing for the right issues can be developed within the product and seamlessly integrated to QA processes. Full labeling and compliance documentation by end-user, market, and country can be automatically generated.
With the increased use of outsourcing and pushing more research and development (R&D) tasks out to suppliers, manufacturers will strive to protect intellectual property (IP). Process manufacturing PLM solutions like Infor PLM Optiva [evaluate this product] should allow suppliers to disclose all the risks while protecting vendors’ IP.
To that end, secure constituent formulas manage compliance data and provide masked R&D material data as necessary. When a compliance issue arises with a material that has critical security, compliance managers can search across this secure data and find other similar materials to proactively address other potential issues.
Designing with built-in quality, compliance, and sustainability in mind will minimize the time and cost to scale, ensure product safety, and improve the product success rates. In parallel, companies can benefit from reduced costs, improved product performance, sustainability, minimized time-to-market (TTM), and ensured product’s regulatory compliance.
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