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Preactor delivers multi-site planning benefits for Laboratorios Raffo
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eadquartered in Munro, Vicente López, Laboratorios Raffo is a pharmaceutical company with considerable experience in the Argentinian market and a
strong commitment to healthcare and its promotion. Substantial investment in Research & Development combined with a primary commitment to quality, safety and affordability of new products has helped the company to become a licensee of major pharmaceutical companies from North America, Europe and Asia that rely on Laboratorios Raffo to market their products in Argentina.
The company’s primary 16,600m2 manufacturing facility is more than 1000 km from its headquarters and was designed from the outset as a model production facility. Specialising in the manufacture of oral solid products such as tablets, capsules and sachet, it currently produces over 1.3 million
When it came to selecting an Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) system to work seamlessly with the company’s existing ERP system, only one that could handle such complexity would be good enough. This is why, after a thorough and comprehensive selection process, Laboratorios Raffo chose to invest in Preactor APS from leading Argentinian Preactor reseller SIMLog.
managing over 130 primary resources and 150 secondary resources. From a Theory of Constraints (TOC) perspective this represents the constraints of the system, operating mostly in two shifts, while others work 24x7, depending on the production load. It also
The implementation of Preactor has allowed us a better integration of the supply chain including different areas like Quality, Purchasing, Stores, Production, and Maintenance.”
– Eduardo Behmer, Laboratorios Raffo.
tablets per day for the Argentine market and for export. Laboratorios Raffo uses a combination of QAD Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) with other complementary systems to manage its demanding computing and logistics environment and to provide a wide range of expertise in all areas.
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When it comes to the company’s manufacturing environment, this means
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involves the task of managing a direct workforce of over 500 highly skilled personnel in Production, Quality Assurance and Quality Control. Add to this the fact that an ideal production plan can comprise the optimised scheduling of more than 25000 operations and the scale and complexity of the production planning and scheduling challenges becomes crystal clear. Such optimising is simply impossible to do manually or in an intuitive way. When it came to selecting an Advanced Planning and
Scheduling (APS) system to work seamlessly with the company’s existing ERP system, only one that could handle such complexity would be good enough. This is why, after a thorough and comprehensive selection process, Laboratorios Raffo chose to invest in Preactor APS from leading Argentinian Preactor reseller SIMLog.
Implementation of this highly challenging project commenced in November 2008 with a visit from the SIMLog team to the San Juan facility. During this visit, Eduardo Behmer, head of programming in San Juan, was very clear in his request. His goal, bluntly stated,
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