Pharmaceutical companies must correctly plan to purchase raw materials, API, and excipients according to manufacturing and quality activities.
STAEDEAN Life Sciences allow the use of an ad-hoc algorithm to calculate and propose safety stock for items, considering future demands and material sampling plans.
The algorithm can be executed from the Safety stock calculation form (Master planning > Master planning > Run > Safety stock calculation). For additional information about the algorithm’s parameters and logic, see Demand-based algorithm for safety stock calculation.
Life Sciences Quality Control & Assurance module enables the algorithm to rely on the following parameters defined in the quality association form (Life Sciences Quality Control & Assurance > Setup > Quality control > Quality associations):
Use in safety stock algorithm: defines the item’s quality associations that the algorithm must consider. The system requires users to specify one quality association for each item-vendor involved in the calculations.
Container unit: defines the unit of measure used to calculate the number of incoming sub-batches given the purchase order quantity. If left blank, the system considers the item’s purchasing quantity as the sub-batch quantity involved in the calculations.
Given the number of incoming sub-batches, the algorithm leverages item sampling configurations to calculate the sampling quantity and estimate the future item’s safety stock quantity.