Manufacturing documentation & compliance

Manufacturing documentation and compliance

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Chief of these challenges was a need to meet new requirements around compliance and control of documents in manufacturing processes. In any manufacturing process, it is essential to document every stage of processes and their fulfilment.

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Operating procedures, policies and processes were expanding daily to support the activities of the company and it was rapidly creating a significant number of documents that needed to be controlled for the company to be compliant with stringent manufacturing industry standards such as ISO9001. 

 

​The company needed to be able to control the authoring and revision of key documents, audit their review and changes, capture sign-offs and then distribute them to the workforce, all the while maintaining records of who had reviewed and understood the information.

 

Financial operations document management 

 

As the company moved toward production it saw an increase in purchasing activities to support scaling the operation but also in day-to-day manufacturing operations. 

 

The purchasing through to payment processes placed an increased burden on the finance team to organise a rapidly increasing volume of documents; everything from purchasing documents to accounts payable invoices and delivery notes. This activity requires authorisation of purchases, checking in of goods against invoices and routing for approvals for exceptions and high-value purchases.

 

Contractual document management

 

Being a company at the cutting edge of research and development in its space requires tight control and confidentiality of its information assets across operations across suppliers, customers and people. With a growing supply chain and engagement with third parties, the company recognised a need to produce a system to monitor and control contractual obligations.