Life Sciences Supply Chain Management provides the ability to:
Check the status of each component that is consumed to produce a batch of a manufactured product.
Prevent the finished product from being released until each component is fully approved.
The status of each component for a manufactured batch can be manually checked by clicking the Check status of components button in the View Tab of the Batches form (Inventory management > Inquiries and reports > Tracking dimensions > Batches).
Example
A batch of finished product “FP-0001” is manufactured using a batch of raw material that was conditionally released. When clicking the Check status of components button for the batch of item “FP-0001”, the system will display an error message because the raw material is not fully released.
This feature can be enabled/disabled depending on the batch disposition code by setting the Skip components to check parameter in the Batch disposition master form (Inventory management > Setup > Batch > Batch disposition master). If the batch disposition code of the unapproved component has the Skip components check enabled, the finished product batch can be released.
Components status check complexity level
In the manufacturing process, it is possible to have circular batches (that is, the same item and batch that is registered as output of a production is also consumed as a component in the same order). This scenario causes circularity issues when the system checks the status of the components that are used to produce a certain batch during the quality batch release process.
Additionally, in the case of manufacturing processes composed of a high number of production levels, the check of the components’ statuses can slow down due to performance issues.
Life Sciences Supply Chain Management allows securing to avoid the circularity issue by enabling the Bypass circular batches upon batch status update parameter in the Quality management tab of the Inventory and warehouse management parameters form (Inventory management > Setup > Inventory and warehouse management parameters) or Life Sciences Quality Control & Assurance parameters form (Life Sciences Quality Control & Assurance > Setup > Life Sciences Quality Control & Assurance parameters).
It is also possible to define the level of components check to be performed upon batch release by defining the Level of components check upon batch status update field in the Quality management tab of the Inventory and warehouse management parameters form (Inventory management > Setup > Inventory and warehouse management parameters) or Life Sciences Quality Control & Assurance parameters form (Life Sciences Quality Control & Assurance > Setup > Life Sciences Quality Control & Assurance parameters).
The maximum number of levels is 100 to avoid system performance issues. The system allows entering “0” in the Level of components check upon batch status update. In this case, the system behaves considering a hard-coded number of 100 levels. Once the number of levels is reached, the system stops the recurrent function and provides the result per the analyzed components within these levels.
If the Bypass circular batches upon batch status update parameter is enabled, the system will search for circular batches during the verification of components. If one or more batches of the items used to manufacture the batch is a circular batch (that is, the same item and batch that is reported as finished in the batch order is also posted in its picking list journal as a consumed material), the system checks the batch status only once and continues to verify other components, regardless of the number of levels set for the verification.
If the Bypass circular batches upon batch status update parameter is disabled, the system does not search for circular batches and runs the components check for all batches. Circular batches are verified according to the setup in Levels of components check upon batch status update before continuing with a new component batch.
Note
The controls are only performed when the new batch disposition code has an Available batch disposition status.