By Business Need

Integron is a modular ERP solution to pharmaceutical industry. The core functionality of the pharmaceutical industry is Material Procurement (MP), Inventory Management (IM), Production Management (PM), Quality Control & Assurance (QC/QA) and Sales & Distribution (S & D).

Integron also covers support functionalities like Financial Management (FM), Cost Management (CS) and Payroll (PR) etc specific to pharmaceutical industry.

Integron works in tightly integrated fashion covering the entire functionality giving the organization maximum efficiency with optimized processes.

• Material Procurement (MP)
  MRP ensures procurement of raw material as per the requirements / production plan considering the stocks. The organization is benefited using vendor analysis consisting of cost and quality norms, which helps in cost reduction, timely material availability keeping the inventory at minimum required level.
  
• Inventory Management (IM)
  Inventory management system keeps track of multiple dates at the batch level, including Expiration, Manufactured, Best Before, Shelf Life, Re-test and User-Defined Aging Dates of the material. It helps in generation of requisition and issues (RM / PM) and material is provided on FIFO / FEFO basis. System also facilitates assay calculation in RM issue process for batch, valuation of the inventory resulting reduction in inventory-carrying cost.
  
• Production Management (PM)
  Production Management is for planning a batch based on Production Plan, dispensing raw & packing material based on product formula (BoM), addition of previous batch recovery, intimation to QC for quality control checks at defined stages, transfer of finished product batch to BSR. As per the FDA norms, system enables to keep complete batch-wise documentation. It also helps in generating reports like manpower and material used for the batch against standard for costing purpose.
  
• Quality Control (QC)
  The system control quality of the raw material procured for the production process and material rejection / disposal in case of quality norms are not achieved. Based on the intimation by the production department, set of defined tests are carried out by the QC department and release the material for performing next task in the production process. It also generates a Certificate of Analysis (CoA) for the finished product.
  User can define pharmacopoeia types and the related test parameters and constraints.
  
• Sales & Distribution Management (MD & SM)
  Stock transfer between locations with the help of system driven assignment of carriers against shipments based on compatibilities and freight costs.
  System facilitates customized treatment for pricing, tax and discounting mechanisms, to handle various commercial policies and scheme management for sales promotion. It also facilitates order booking, multiple order processing, pack-list, invoice generation, adjustment of customer balances and sales returns. System enables distributor management using maximum credit limit, minimum dispatch limit, maximum invoice value and hold transactions etc. It also generates MIS reports like sales targets against achievements based on primary and secondary sales data.
  
• Financial Management (FM)
  Functionality includes creation of vouchers, cash, bank receipts and payments. Accounts Receivable keeps track of receivables with automatic data update from Sales Management module and accounts payable keeps track of payables integrating with Material Procurement module. The general ledger integrates with accounts receivable and accounts payable, covering budgeting and financial reporting. System generates statutory and management reports like Cash, Bank, Journals, Credit / Debit Notes, Ledgers, Trial Balance, Balance Sheet and Profit & Loss and facilitate bank reconciliation.
  
• Payroll (PR)
  Functionality includes employee time management and salary / wages processing. Payroll processing includes payroll accounting, with various employee earnings and deductions and posting to accounts. System generates statutory reports to Provident Fund commissioner office, Income-tax office etc. and also facilitates employee attendance and leave management.
  
• Costing (CS)
  Module includes process cost determination, process cost monitoring, activity based costing and plant capacity utilization. Batch costing includes task-wise RM / PM showing standard quantity vis-à-vis actual consumed with standard deviation. System also generates batch and task-wise manpower and equipment utilization MIS.
  
• User Administration (UA)
  Module facilitates menu-driven ERP administration to manage users, user roles / privileges with security management and maintaining audit trail. Security is available in multiple levels like database, object and instance. It controls user access from the initial login through to the final logout.