Ofbiz for Pharmaceutical manufacturing

[Sakthivel Vellingiri]

Hi Ofbiz Users,

i'm trying to customize ofbiz for a small/medium pharmaceutical
manufacturing business, and looking for any pointers if someone has already
done this in the past and share their experience.

The following are the modules that i'm considering at this time

- Catalog Manager (for setting up ingredients, finished products)
- Party Manager (setup Customers, Vendors, Employees, Users)
- Order Manager (Purchase/Sales Order)
- Facility (Inventory Management, Shipping)
- Manufacturing

As i see it tracking/traceability is a key factor in the highly regulatory
pharmaceutical industry, and to be able to support product recalls in a
very short notice and very quick time, for example if a particular
ingredient is recalled,
- Identify the manufacturing batch that used this ingredient
- Trace the Inventory using this ingredient and mark as not deliverable
- Trace the customers who received batches manufactured using the recalled
ingredient and notify the customers to discard it

- Does Ofbiz support traceability across the modules out of the box,
- If this needs custom work, i would like to hear from the experts what is
the best approach for this

Regards

[Jacques Le Roux]

No OFBiz does not offer traceability OOTB and it's a business for some OFBiz service providers (food notably, including alcohol)

AFAIK, the only things you have in OFBiz are serialised products and the Lot entity, see  InventoryItem.lotId and InventoryItem.serialNumber
Far from enough but already a start, not sure about what the code really do with them, but not really traceability

HTH

Jacques

Le 12/06/2014 15:32, Integrin a écrit :

> Hi Ofbiz Users,
>
> i'm trying to customize ofbiz for a small/medium pharmaceutical
> manufacturing business, and looking for any pointers if someone has already
> done this in the past and share their experience.
>
> The following are the modules that i'm considering at this time
>
> - Catalog Manager (for setting up ingredients, finished products)
> - Party Manager (setup Customers, Vendors, Employees, Users)
> - Order Manager (Purchase/Sales Order)
> - Facility (Inventory Management, Shipping)
> - Manufacturing
>
> As i see it tracking/traceability is a key factor in the highly regulatory
> pharmaceutical industry, and to be able to support product recalls in a
> very short notice and very quick time, for example if a particular
> ingredient is recalled,
> - Identify the manufacturing batch that used this ingredient
> - Trace the Inventory using this ingredient and mark as not deliverable
> - Trace the customers who received batches manufactured using the recalled
> ingredient and notify the customers to discard it
>
> - Does Ofbiz support traceability across the modules out of the box,
> - If this needs custom work, i would like to hear from the experts what is
> the best approach for this
>
> Regards
>

--

[Anil Patel-3]

Hi
It depends on how you see/use OFBiz. We have implemented OFBiz for company in highly regulated industry, to some extent even more regulated then food.

OFBiz universal data model and Services layer has necessary support for the process. We build Business Process and User interaction artifacts to meet business needs.

We can help you to figure out gaps between your custom requirements and OFBiz stock capabilities. I am sure, you will agree, we need lot more information on your requirements and your current comfort level with OFBiz.  

If it is possible for you to share your business requirements?
One way to go will be to create Jira ticket, attach your business requirements to it. Start discussion on this list, I will try to help you as much I can.

Thanks and Regards
Anil Patel
COO
Hotwax Media Inc
http://www.hotwaxmedia.com/
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> On Jun 13, 2014, at 4:14 AM, Jacques Le Roux <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> No OFBiz does not offer traceability OOTB and it's a business for some OFBiz service providers (food notably, including alcohol)
>
> AFAIK, the only things you have in OFBiz are serialised products and the Lot entity, see  InventoryItem.lotId and InventoryItem.serialNumber
> Far from enough but already a start, not sure about what the code really do with them, but not really traceability
>
> HTH
>
> Jacques
>
> Le 12/06/2014 15:32, Integrin a écrit :
>> Hi Ofbiz Users,
>>
>> i'm trying to customize ofbiz for a small/medium pharmaceutical
>> manufacturing business, and looking for any pointers if someone has already
>> done this in the past and share their experience.
>>
>> The following are the modules that i'm considering at this time
>>
>> - Catalog Manager (for setting up ingredients, finished products)
>> - Party Manager (setup Customers, Vendors, Employees, Users)
>> - Order Manager (Purchase/Sales Order)
>> - Facility (Inventory Management, Shipping)
>> - Manufacturing
>>
>> As i see it tracking/traceability is a key factor in the highly regulatory
>> pharmaceutical industry, and to be able to support product recalls in a
>> very short notice and very quick time, for example if a particular
>> ingredient is recalled,
>> - Identify the manufacturing batch that used this ingredient
>> - Trace the Inventory using this ingredient and mark as not deliverable
>> - Trace the customers who received batches manufactured using the recalled
>> ingredient and notify the customers to discard it
>>
>> - Does Ofbiz support traceability across the modules out of the box,
>> - If this needs custom work, i would like to hear from the experts what is
>> the best approach for this
>>
>> Regards
>>
>
> --

[Pierre Smits]

As Jacques already replied registration for basic functionality for
tracking & tracing (product serialisation and lot/batch registration) is
available in current feature set.

Having done multiple implementations for various companies in the Food and
Beverage sector (which is not totally unlike the Pharmaceuticals industry,
ORRTIZ.COM can provide you with advice regarding design and implementation
of solutions extending current feature set.

Regards,

Pierre Smits

*ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>*
Services & Solutions for Cloud-
Based Manufacturing, Professional
Services and Retail & Trade
http://www.orrtiz.com

[Sakthivel Vellingiri]

@Jacques Thanks for highlighting about Serialized product and Lot Id,

@Pierre, Thanks for the response, you are correct Pharmaceutical industry
is pretty similar to Food and Beverage in relation to Tracking and Tracing;

will circle back once i have more details;


On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 4:24 AM, Pierre Smits <[hidden email]>
wrote:

> As Jacques already replied registration for basic functionality for
> tracking & tracing (product serialisation and lot/batch registration) is
> available in current feature set.
>
> Having done multiple implementations for various companies in the Food and
> Beverage sector (which is not totally unlike the Pharmaceuticals industry,
> ORRTIZ.COM can provide you with advice regarding design and implementation
> of solutions extending current feature set.
>
> Regards,
>
> Pierre Smits
>
> *ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>*
> Services & Solutions for Cloud-
> Based Manufacturing, Professional
> Services and Retail & Trade
> http://www.orrtiz.com
>