The starting point
Customer audits meant weeks of QA time assembling BMRs and QC records from paper. FIFO discipline was informal, and near-expiry stock kept turning into write-offs.
What we implemented
The pharma track: quarantine-to-release QC workflows, BMR templates mapped to existing SOPs, mandatory batch/expiry with FIFO-enforced picking, and full forward/backward traceability — validated through a parallel production cycle before cutover.
The result
An auditor's request for a two-year-old lot's complete batch history took eleven minutes instead of three days. Expiry write-offs fell 70% within two quarters.