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The Pharmaceutical industry has been experiencing multiple challenges such as stringent Government regulations, new pricing policies, increasing R&D costs and the patent cliff.

Minardi Consulting has helped pharmaceutical manufacturers implement JD Edwards solutions that optimize and improve business processes like batch production, traceability, sales functions, inventory control, purchasing, quality assurance, accounting, financials and regulatory reporting.

Our Customers realize:

• Improved tracking from raw materials, through processing, packaging and shipping (source-to-dispense)

• Real-time visibility into finances and faster analysis of profitability

• Improved operational efficiencies, reduction in cost and time to produce

• Better management of returns and credits

• Improved Quality Control

Industry Specific Solutions (include):

• Shipping

  • Captured the contents of shipping cartons, whether they were full case or partial case quantities and including this information on ASN’s as part of the E-Pedigree requirement given by pharmaceutical wholesalers. Working with the third party shipping company we were able to successfully capture the data, update the corresponding sales transactions and send the updated ASN’s to the wholesalers.

• Returns

  • Matched incoming returns back to the original sales order for the purpose of issuing the credit to the correct customer. Often when returns came in from the processor, they did not always contain the original customer who placed the order, making it impossible to determine the correct amount to credit. Since the customer who returned the product may not be the same one who purchased it, a significant amount of time was spent identifying the correct customers. We developed a solution that automatically processed inbound returns, and if a match was found generated the credit without any user involvement.

  • Created rule based returns system that creates, validates and prices wholesalers, 3pl and customer returns into JDE.

• Misc. Development Areas

  • Created a sales order mass update application mostly used during a product launch to quickly update data elements on a high volume of specific sales orders to facilitate the orders getting to the warehouse for processing.

  • Created additional data elements and maintenance enhancements for item master information required for government compliance, HDMA sheets and revenue management system.

  • Created additional data elements and maintenance of customer information for revenue management, direct and indirect customers. The ability to capture and maintain additional customer identifiers such as DEA licenses, HIN numbers, GLN numbers, State licenses, etc. to be used in electronic communication with customers via EDI and outgoing documents (Pack List, Invoices).

  • Added functionality in several steps of the supply chain process to enforce customer DEA and/or State license validation and effectivity based on the products being purchased.