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Bell Granito Ceramica
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| Case Study: Red Squirrel |
Company: Aristo
Pharmaceuticals Ltd. (Aristo)
Location: Factory: Bhopal & Daman, India; Head Quarters:
Mumbai, India
Employees: 2400
Industry: Pharmaceutical.
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| Background |
Aristo started
its operations in 1971. Since then Aristo has come a long
way. From a turnover of US $ 8500 in 1971 to US $ 64 million
in year 2000. Current turnover is over $ 100 million.
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| Key Challenges |
| Some of Aristo’s challenges
were: |
- Issue Purchase orders based on Requirement
plan
- Reduce lead time between a customer's order and
delivery
- Monitor Production and Performance at various stages
- Identify batches from production till invoicing
- Expiry date control
- Inventory Control and Purchase Planning of Raw Materials
- Management Information on real time basis
- Realisation by product
- Production Statistics
- An integrated software connecting factory and Head
Office on real time.
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| Solution Adopted |
Aristo selected
RedSquirrel© to achieve their goals and complement
their business strategy. Using Redsquirrel© the processes
of Production Planning, Material management, Quality Control,
Bonded store & Engineering Stores Management were
mapped.
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| Outcome |
The integrated
modules of Redsquirrel© have enabled Aristo to manage
its business efficiently from both Head Office and the
factory.
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| Benefits of Redsquirrel for
Aristo: |
- Helps Just-in-Time Inventory
- Automatic calculation of potency (potency factors
defined in masters)
- Lowest level component handling while making a product.
- Batch Issue
· Creation of recovery batch.
· Reanalysis of rejected material & GRN
analysis amendment
· Loan license handling
· Effective handling of third party manufacturing
· Packing material issue w/o expiry
· Expiry date management
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| Procedures Adopted |
| Access staff studied
the business requirements of Aristo after exhaustive discussions
and meetings with end-users and various other levels of
management. Based on these, Access mapped these with Red
Squirrel components and customised the same to meet the
exact requirements. |
