KB20230904/01: Sage X3 – Advanced Process Manufacturing Management

A fully integrated process manufacturing management solution.

Process manufacturers need to be able to quickly adapt to the ever-changing regulatory landscape. At the same time, they need comprehensive company-wide efficiencies so they can easily take on new opportunities. This is crucial for long-term growth.

Sage X3 Procession increases efficiencies, reducing the amount of time required to manage and analyze operation critical data, while providing greater communication between departments.

With modules including pre-sales and formulation, quality control, regulatory control, manufacturing enhancements, and distribution enhancements, users can develop and manage new formulas, generate safety data sheets, add boilerplate notes, and more.

Sage X3 Procession provides the peace of mind your company needs, maintaining the highest level of safety without increasing production time.

Premium functionality to manage formulation, regulatory and quality control, manufacturing, and distribution.

Process manufacturers, food and beverage, and chemical distributors face unique challenges. They require the tools to simplify their challenges, while ensuring at the same time they have the capacity to grow.

Key features include:

• Pre-Sales and Formulation Module: R&D tools for new product development and management of existing formulas. Also provides tools for the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) to prevent unauthorized alteration of formulas.
• Regulatory Control Module: Allows global and local regulations to be managed and reported for chemical inventory. This includes the ability to generate safety data sheets and labels, report inventory levels, and provide easy access to safety information.
• Quality Control Module: Builds upon the quality control functionality within Sage X3, and adds several key features required by process manufacturers. This module adds the ability to track results from multiple samples and perform analysis on these results.
• Manufacturing Enhancements Module: Provides efficiency, safety, and communication improvements by extending Sage X3 manufacturing functionality, delivering the key functionality required by process manufacturers.
• Distribution Enhancements Module: Extends Sage X3 distribution by providing the functionality to support LTL/TL shipments, supporting both hazardous and non-hazardous shipments. Increase efficiencies by improving communication and reducing data entry for customer service, shipping, and manufacturing departments.
• Nutraceutical plug-in: Designed for the nutraceutical or supplements industry, this plug-in provides the ability to formulate based upon nutritional targets.

Maintain the highest level of safety without increasing production time.

Key benefits include:

• Key lab functionality: Sage X3 Procession connects the lab to the rest of the company, from formulation and product tracking to safety data sheets and technical sheets. It provides the tools in the lab to succeed. Native to Sage X3, it stores all lab generated documents and data centrally. There are no more data islands or excel spreadsheets to manage. These lab management improvements translate to efficiencies across the company.
• Regulatory Compliance: The Regulatory Control module provides the functionality to maintain, track, and report regulatory information by CAS number or formula. This information can be used in the Formulation module to determine regulatory compliance and/or for generating safety data sheets (SDS). Managing and reporting chemicals is a requirement for companies that store or handle potentially hazardous materials or controlled substances. This can include finished goods, intermediates, raw materials, and cleaning supplies.
• Formulation Management: The formulation module provides the tools needed to manage formulas and lab projects, track new business opportunities, manage customer sample requests, classify hazards, perform detail costing, and provide estimates. The cornerstone of the Formulation module is the R&D Formulation functionality. This provides a ‘sandbox’ environment for the development of new formulas or for creating revisions of existing formulas.
• Quality Control Analysis: This tool extends quality control functionality in Sage X3 and adds several premium features commonly required by process manufacturers. Additional functionality includes QC specification by product, quick entry, statistical, and trend analysis, ability to print CofA, and periodic QC tests.