 BME
2007 Features |
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| BatchMaster Software,
Inc. announces the release and general availability of
BatchMaster Enterprise 2007, the latest version of BatchMaster
Enterprise, and an upgrade to existing versions 7.15,
7.20, 7.25, 7.30. BatchMaster Enterprise 2007, a process
manufacturing solution, has over 100 features and functionality
like Advanced Security, SOP, Compatibility to Seagate
Crystal Reports (Version 8 through 11), New MSDS, Enhanced
What-if Analysis, Batch Quality Control, Drill Down ability
at various fields, etc. |
| BatchMaster Enterprise
2007 a process manufacturing solution is both robust and
scalable; it provides manufacturing and distribution solutions
for various process manufacturing verticals such as food,
pharmaceutical, cosmetics, paints and coatings, chemical,
beverage, and nutraceutical. |
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| BatchMaster
Enterprise 2007 version incorporates the following enhanced
and additional features: |
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General Modifications |
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New look and feel of BatchMaster
Enterprise 2007 Interface |
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new and improved BatchMaster Enterprise 2007 Interface
promises better operating performance and accelerated
speed of navigation. Changes in the look and
feel of the Left and Right panes will heighten
the level of clarity to make it more intuitive.
All the modules can now be accessed through the
New BatchMaster Desktop and the left pane
has been made more useful with the addition of
new tabs: Module Tab, Favorites Tab, My Task
Tab and Active Tab. New Icons help in quick
identification and location of the screens and with
the use of Color schemes on screens like
the View Item location and Mandatory Fields being
depicted in Yellow; it gives a better feel and
user interface. |
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| Advanced
Security Settings |
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BatchMaster Administrator user will now have the
ability to create login passwords with minimum characters
and force the users to reset their passwords periodically.
This setting may be made globally or for an individual
user. |
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| Change
BatchMaster Company without Logging off |
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need to log out BatchMaster Enterprise as to change
Manufacturing company is now eliminated. Users simply
need to close all the open screens and can switch
to any other manufacturing company for which they
have access permission. |
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| User
Specific Reports and Print Options |
| BatchMaster
announces crystal report version 11 as its default
report version. BatchMaster now supports crystal
report version 8 through 11. The new features like
viewers resizing and printing on multiple printers
could be chosen for a particular report and for
Report-User combination. BatchMaster Enterprise
2007 now offers a number of flexible printing options
for all reports. |
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| Inventory
& Common Data Module |
| Ship
Via enhancements |
| The Ship
Via screen has fields for address and contact information
of the transporter company in compliance with the Bio-Terrorism
Act. |
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| Non
Stocking Items |
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item type in the BatchMaster 2007 are marked 'Non-Stocking'
and these items can now be used in Formulation and would
be shown in Batch Ticket, but there would be no transaction
fired for them during Batch Cycle. |
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| Application
of Tax on a Non-Inventory Item |
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jurisdiction no items are exempted from taxation. To abide
by the norms, BatchMaster Enterprise 2007 now allows taxes
on non-inventory items also. |
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| Serial
lot Module |
| Lot
Quantity validation at the time of saving the record |
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BatchMaster Enterprise 2007, the user has the flexibility
to make changes to line quantities but the system will
validate the changes only at the time of saving the records.
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| Vendor
Lot Number in Lot Explosion screen |
| Vendor
Lot Number information is now viewable in the lot explosion
screen providing the user with greater visibility in terms
of critical information required in a lot recall / return
scenario. |
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| Change
in feature value allowed at the time of Negative Transaction |
| Prolonged
storage or a change in ambient conditions sometimes changes
the basic properties like color, size or even volume of
an item. While depleting them from inventory during inventory
adjustments, the current feature value of the lot may
now be entered; which was not possible earlier. |
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| Create
and Associate new Lot Features at the time of Lot Creation |
| Now
users have the flexibility to create new lot features
and associate them with an item directly from the Serial/Lot
maintenance screen, which was a multi-step process earlier.
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| On-Screen
disallow Lots with specific Statuses |
| A link
to the Serial Lot Transaction Setup screen has been added
on the Lot Status screen that allows users to prevent
lots with that status to be used in specific transactions.
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| Filter
Lots based on Quarantine Date |
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can now filter lots based on the Quarantine date while
editing Lot details at the Edit Serial Lot Details Screen.
Moreover, users can also modify the Quarantine date of
multiple selected lots with a single click. |
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| Purchase
Module |
| Purchase
Indents |
| Purchase
Indents may now be directly entered in the system without
linking them to a specific vendor. This will eliminate
the need of making multiple requisitions for different
vendors before forwarding them to the purchase department. |
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| Rejected
Return Order |
| The Purchase
Orders types now include 'Rejected Return Order'. This
allows users to easily create a Return Order exclusively
for items rejected from QC. |
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| Preferred
Vendor |
| BatchMaster
Enterprise 2007 has the ability to evaluate and recommend
the vendor, best suitable for specific pre-defined criteria.
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| Landed
Cost Reconciliation Report |
| BatchMaster
Enterprise 2007 provides users with a Landed Cost Reconciliation
report that enables the users to review the contribution
of landed cost to inventory valuation by rendering an
order wise statement. |
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| Show
Latest Receipt on Top |
| The sequence
of the receipts on the Purchase Receipt screen has been
changed to an ascending order. This will result in substantial
saving of time in case the number of items in the order
is large or multiple receipts against an order line. |
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| Create
Purchase Order via the Critical Material Report |
| BatchMaster
Enterprise 2007 provides the ability to create a PO for
the critical materials right from the Batch Ticket screen
of Production Module. |
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| View
changed purchase price on Purchase Order History Window |
| Purchase
Order Entry screen has been enhanced with a Purchase Order
History window to provide users with the Price of the
item as entered during voucher modification. In the event
of change in purchase price at voucher level, which may
be due to variance in currency exchange rate, change in
policies of vendor, expiration of contract price etc,
the latest price also gets reflected at the Purchase Order
History window. |
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| Sales
Module |
| Quick
Sales Order |
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screen has been added in BatchMaster Enterprise 2007 with
a completely new interface. The Sales Order screen has
been divided horizontally into three main sections. The
top section has fields to maintain the essential order
information like customer and relevant dates, the middle
section contains the items grid where the ordered items
and the related information are maintained and the bottom
section is collapsible and contains 6 tabs that contain
information like order totals and addresses. |
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| Default
Location for 'Add Favorite' Item |
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BatchMaster Enterprise 2007, users may define a default
location from where the favorite items are fetched. Upon
clicking the 'Add Favorite Items' button, a window pops
up which lists the favorite items defined in the default
location. If the location key is left blank, then items
corresponding to all locations will be shown. |
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| Line
Close on Sales Order |
| The Line
Close button allows closing a line even when an order
is open. An open line cannot be closed if an unprocessed
line of a non-zero quantity exists in the 'Maintain Shipment
screen'. The user would have to save that shipment line
with a zero quantity and use the new 'Close Line' feature
to close a single order line. |
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| Price
Change Possible in Return Order with Reference |
| BatchMaster
Enterprise 2007 now allows modifying the price on a referenced
return order which was not possible earlier. |
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| Adding
Non-Inventory line allowed on a Referenced Return Order |
| BatchMaster
Enterprise 2007 allows adding non inventory lines on a
referenced return order; thus allowing users to make cost
adjustments to the order. |
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| Best
Price Search |
| Users
can now access the price and discount information maintained
at various sources in BME. The system allows viewing of
all the price sources and their calculations for the line
item selected on the sales order. The price is fetched
from all the available sources and is displayed in descending
value. |
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| Different
fields to show Price and Discount Sources |
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now have the capability to check not only the price source,
but also the source of discount amount on the order entry
screen. |
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| Tax
on Non Inventory Line |
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a Non-Inventory Line is added on a sales order, the system
automatically fetches the tax information from the Non-Inventory
master in case of Line Level Tax. Whereas, in case of
Order Level Tax, the default tax key is fetched from the
Customer Master. |
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| Ability
to Print and Save |
| Print
and Save buttons are made available at the Finance Online
Update Report to enable users to print or save the Online
Update Report for future reference. |
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| Target
Ship Date |
| A new
field is now available in the Quick Sales Order entry
screen that will help to set the target order ship date
to ensure the delivery to the customer by the requested
date. |
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| Quality
Control |
| Reject
Entire Shipment if QC fails |
| The QC
personnel will now have the power to reject the entire
shipment if even a single sample fails to meet the standards.
This feature over-rides the 'Max allowable defective samples'
value maintained in the QC Item Test screen. |
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| Reject
Entire Receipt if QC fails |
| Similar
functionality is made available at the Purchase QC screen
to help users reject entire receipt if even a single sample
fails to meet the quality standards. |
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| Formula
Module |
| Formulation
Security |
| The new
Formulation Security protects formulas from unwarranted
changes by applying password validation at the time of
saving them. |
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| Link
to Material Property Screen provided |
| A link
to Material Property screen within the Inventory module
is provided right on the Physical Property Analysis screen.
This reduces the effort of having to repeatedly switch
to the Distribution module as a time saving measure. |
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| Costing
Module |
| Enhanced
What-if Analysis |
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Analysis tab of the Product Cost Analysis screen has been
made more versatile and is now editable thus providing
enhanced What-if Analysis and profitability analysis based
on a specific need. Once edited, the changes would take
place on the screen but the integrity of the original
records will be maintained. Users now have the ability
to analyze the effect of any change in the total formula
cost on either the formula line quantities or formula
line costs. The system would also give the cost fluctuations
in raw materials that can be expected if total formula
cost changes. |
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can now see the contribution of cost by a specific
item to the entire formula as a percentage. This is
of special help to users as it enables them to identify
the crucial elements of the formula at a glance. This
information is also available on the fourth tab of the
Formula Master Screen and Physical Property Analysis screen
in Laboratory. |
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| Production
Module |
| Batch
Templates or Co-products |
| Production
batch template functionality analogous to the Sales Template
in the sales module has been introduced with BatchMaster
Enterprise 2007. In case the users need to recurrently
run a production batch that yields multiple finished goods,
they may create a batch template and subsequently create
production batches by referencing the template. |
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| Batch
Number Generation screen |
| BatchMaster
Enterprise 2007 enhances the automatic batch numbering
by letting the user decide how the number is to be fashioned.
They can track the batches by month, year, formula, or
even customer. |
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| Trial
Super Batch Close |
| The ability
to simulate closing a production batch was available only
for single level batches. With BatchMaster Enterprise
2007, the added benefit of 'Trial Superbatch Close' will
help foresee the implications of a Superbatch close in
terms of FG Yield, RM Usage with costing figures. |
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| Batch
QC |
| A Production
Batch QC screen outside of the batch ticket screen is
now available with BatchMaster Enterprise 2007 that can
be used by the QC staff to enter test results without
having to enter the batch ticket screen. The QC tab of
the batch ticket screen is still available and may be
used as an alternate. |
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| Production
QC possible even for closed batches |
| Production
QC information can now be entered for closed batches,
which was not possible in the earlier versions of BatchMaster
Enterprise. |
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| QC
of Formula Ingredients |
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users have the ability to generate inventory QC orders
for formula items directly from the production batch ticket.
This may be mandated owing to a delay in batch execution
or expiration date of formula items being very close to
batch run date. |
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| Copy
Production Batches |
| It is
now possible to make a copy of an existing production
batch ticket and save it with a new batch number. |
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| MSDS
Module |
| New
MSDS |
| Some
text and numeric information needs to be printed on MSDS.
These MSDS related information couldn't be easily maintained
as additional fields on screens like Formula Master, Item
Master, without the use of Customized Fields. A solution
has been provided by which user will be able to enter
the additional text and numeric, and attach it to a specific
formula, Item, etc. All the text information maintained
here will be recorded as MSDS Supplementary file. All
numeric information will be maintained in a separate table.
The numeric information can then be used in the MSDS Numeric
Calculation screen, to calculate a value for formula or
finished good, based on the numeric information maintained
for each ingredient. |
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| Ability
to maintain INCI Names and EINECS Number |
| To comply
with the norms of Bioterrorism Act, INCI Names, EINECS
Number, FDA 21 CFR Part 11, CAS Numbers, two new fields
are added to the CAS Number. |
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| MPS/MRP
Module |
| Vendor
Source for MPS Purchase Order |
| BatchMaster
Enterprise 2007 now provides the flexibility to define
the source from where the vendor information is to be
fetched for MPS/MRP planned purchase orders. The MPS setup
screen has two options available - Vendor Master or Vendor
Item Quote. |
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| Drill
down ability at various fields of MPS Planning Worksheet |
| Drill
Down ability has been provided in each bucket cell on
the MPS Planning Worksheet, on clicking on it a pop up
window displays the details of the orders contributing
to the quantity in that particular bucket. For example,
if the customer orders cell in a particular bucket shows
a non zero quantity, users can double click on that cell
and a window will popup showing the details of the existing
sales order for the item falling in that time bucket.
This feature will provide the users visibility of the
quantities suggested by BatchMaster Enterprise 2007's
MPS/MRP module |
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| Finance
Integration |
| 'Upload
to Finance' with Apply Date |
| BatchMaster
Enterprise 2007 now uses the actual transaction date instead
of the transaction creation date in the 'Upload to Finance'
screen when users upload AR/AP/GL transactions to the
interfaced finance package. |
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| Periods
uploaded to MS Dynamics - Solomon |
| BatchMaster
Enterprise 2007 now includes the fiscal period information
along with the existing transactional information in case
the BatchMaster manufacturing company is integrated with
MS Dynamics - Solomon. This information may be used by
the finance department staff to analyze the movement of
funds in a fiscal year. |
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| Consolidated
General Ledgers |
| Consolidation
of General Ledgers (GL) prior to their manual upload to
the finance package is now made possible with the addition
of 'Consolidated GL' screen. This screen allows users
to consolidate the GL entries by the account number in
a specified date range and post this figure to finance. |
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| Credits
in Purchase and Sales Orders carry Reference Order Number
to Solomon |
| The Debit
and Credit note information now includes the BatchMaster
reference order number during finance upload in case of
MS Dynamics - Solomon interfaced company. This eliminates
the need of having to switch between BatchMaster and Solomon
in the absence of relevant information. |
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