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Sage PFW ERP Software for Cosmetics Industry

Sage PFW ERP software for the Cosmetics Industry takes the complexity out of running a your business.

You have to maintain numerous product formulas, adhere to industry regulations, keep track of customers, manage personnel, and ensure financial success.  Many companies struggle using disparate solutions that do not work well together.  The good news is that Sage PFW ERP can integrate your solutions—which can save time, money, and help your business succeed in a competitive marketplace.

How Can Sage PFW Help?

Sage PFW ERP has been designed with technical completeness and functional richness. Cosmetics companies need to manage the manufacturing process, and Sage PFW delivers with modules like Formulas, Production, and Inventory. Sage PFW also offers a wide variety of other features and capabilities, all integrated to work together seamlessly. You can use Sage PFW to automate manufacturing and manage all of your financials, from standard accounting to multicurrency and multicompany requirements—frequently needed in today's global marketplace.

Specialized Functionality

Sage PFW ERP provides the functionality within the manufacturing process that you need:

  • Formula management
  • Handling of co- and by-products
  • Raw material specifications
  • Regulatory compliance
  • Full forward and backward traceability
  • Yield optimization
  • Process variability
  • Flexible units of measure
  • Laboratory management
  • Product and hazardous labeling
  • Quality control

Industry Consolidation

Staying competitive in the specialized Cosmetics market often requires consolidation in order to bring economies of scale into the mix. Sage PFW includes functionality to help when companies consolidate, like: 

  • Comprehensive Quality Control—From formulas through production and ticketing, quality control is coordinated through the streamlined integration of modules
  • Customization Capabilities—These abilities provide enhanced batch-ticket functionality
  • Flexible Batch Status—Variable batch size and status options enable streamlined batch management
  • Insightful Reports—Extensive, instant reporting capabilities keep you on the pulse of your company's operations
  • Convenient Automation—Automated scheduling and lot-tracking capabilities ensure production stays on track
  • Extensive Formula Options—Widespread formula capabilities empower your technicians with the tools they need to develop and analyze formulations cost effectively
  • Powerful Formula Utilities—Numerous utility options extend formula management capabilities for maximum functionality

Whether you are a public or private company, consolidation is a fact of life. Sage understands that in order to deal with consolidating competition, you need speed, flexibility, innovation, and superb customer service. That's why Sage PFW was designed to provide advanced functionality to "level the playing field" through:

  • Formula management with intermediates support (multilevel)
  • R&D support with formula optimization
  • Automated formula revision tracking
  • Regulatory compliance including Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS), OSHA, and support
  • Lot/Bin/SSCC tracking with full recall and traceability
  • Multiple lot picking strategies with automation
  • Comprehensive inventory management
  • Quarantine and expiration date awareness
  • Robust quality testing and control
  • By-product management
  • Product costing
  • Unit of measure conversion

Globalization of the Supply Chain

These days, many cosmetics companies operate globally and would prefer to work with partners that also operate on that scale. Sage PFW provides many powerful capabilities through its advanced features to help cosmetics companies deal with global sourcing:

  • Multicurrency capability
  • Multilanguage
  • On-water tracking using Serialized Shipment Container Codes
  • Automated vendor lead-time management
  • Enterprisewide planning and budgeting
  • Vendor quality management
  • Electronic Data Interexchange (EDI)
  • Material Requirements Planning (MRP)
  • Lot tracking by lot number, bin number, and expiration date
  • Full AP integration
  • QC test results entered upon receipt
  • Contract management
  • Support for formulation and batch size adjustments for ingredient potency
  • Key performance indicator monitoring for currency fluctuations, outstanding payables, days inventory in transit, and more with business alerts

Meeting Regulatory Demands

Compliance issues represent another key strategic front in a competitive environment. Customers will outsource to companies that can ensure compliance with all environmental, safety, and FDA regulations. In support of companies with active participation in the industrywide Responsible Care® program and ISO 14001 certification for environmental management, Sage PFW provides cosmetics companies support for regulatory management with:

  • Streamlined MSDS Automation—From automatic MSDS generation and updates to physical property calculations, you'll experience a higher level of streamlined efficiency in MSDS compliance
  • Powerful Customization—Sage PFW puts you in complete control of the format and content of your Material Safety Data Sheets, including accommodating new regulations and supporting multilingual needs
  • Insightful Reporting—Extensive reporting capabilities include SARA Title III, Title Tier I & II, Boilerplate Masterfile Variance, Boilerplate Where-used in Override, and Supplementary

Rapid Response to Customer Needs

Customers want flexibility and they want suppliers that can produce small quantities—sometimes just a few kilograms for trials. They also want suppliers that will rapidly gear up for full production. Suppliers need employees, ERP software, pilot plants, and production facilities that are all flexible. Cosmetics companies also need to be reliable while getting products to market quickly. Sage PFW is specifically designed to allow you not only to be faster and more accurate in operations, but also to be able to react flexibly to customer needs with:

  • Customer history
  • Contract data
  • Custom pricing tables
  • Production data
  • Inventory data
  • Substitution data
  • Option to launch batch orders from Order Entry
  • Advanced material planning features
  • Material shortage analysis wizard
  • Seven different methods of automated batch sizing
  • Automatic unit of measurement for formulation and batches
  • "Backflush" material requisitioning
  • "After-the-fact" purchase order processing for expedited purchases
  • Option for formulation adjustments on batch ticket
  • Automated MSDS maintenance and printing
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