Formulations & characteristics in chemical production: boost efficiency and transparency with ERP

Recipes form the foundation of your production. They define compositions, dosages, and process steps. With an ERP system, you maintain full control:

• Raw material qualities are documented centrally
• Mixing ratios are stored and monitored precisely
• Multi-level recipes with pre-products or intermediate stages are mapped accurately
• Production batches are clearly labeled and fully traceable

This ensures consistent quality, reduces waste, and guarantees smooth operations – a solid foundation for safe production. But alongside recipe management, handling the characteristics of your products plays an equally crucial role in ensuring efficiency.

Properties such as pH value, viscosity, or density have a direct impact on product quality. If these characteristics are not consistently recorded, monitored, and maintained, deviations can occur that affect entire batches. The consequences can be serious – in the worst case, recalls become necessary to maintain consumer safety, driving up costs and damaging trust.

A suitable ERP system ensures these properties are documented consistently and reliably. This enables you to prove at any time that your products meet the required standards – a major advantage for quality assurance and customer confidence.

How strong is innovation in your company? Especially in times when speed and progress are key, recipes and characteristics are constantly evolving. New raw materials, regulatory updates, or customer requirements demand maximum flexibility. When documentation is incomplete, errors quickly creep in, and you may lack traceability when it matters most.

• Automatic version control of recipes and characteristics
• Logs with timestamps and assigned responsibilities
• Direct comparison of old and new versions

You always keep a clear overview and meet both internal and external documentation requirements. This transparency also forms the foundation for reliably meeting regulatory standards.

Few industries are as heavily regulated as the chemical sector. Compliance should never be treated as an additional task – it must be seamlessly embedded in every process. An ERP system supports you by combining compliance and quality control in one integrated environment:

• Safety data sheets and labels according to GHS/CLP are generated automatically
• Only approved raw materials are released for production
• Quality inspections are an integral part of operational workflows
• Lot tracking ensures complete transparency during quality audits or recalls

This way, compliance becomes not a burden but a solid foundation on which your company can confidently build.

Alongside regulatory compliance, chemical production must also remain economically viable. An ERP system provides full transparency over costs, requirements, and batch sizes – enabling you to use raw materials efficiently, avoid overstocking, and reduce waste. This not only protects your budget but also supports sustainability goals.

Whether it’s regulations, innovation, or profitability – when quality, compliance, and efficiency work hand in hand, a future-ready production process emerges. That’s exactly where an ERP system specifically designed for the chemical industry demonstrates its full strength.

The combination of recipe management, characteristic management, version control, compliance, and resource efficiency shows why a specialized ERP system is indispensable – like Yaveon 365. Seamlessly integrated into the Microsoft ecosystem, our industry-specific ERP solution provides the ideal foundation. Developed in close collaboration with companies from the process industry, our industry-specific ERP solution already helps more than 850 customers worldwide reduce process complexity.

With Microsoft as a base, you benefit from a familiar user experience, a stable technological foundation, and the flexibility to continuously optimize your processes – combined with Yaveon’s deep industry expertise.

Recipes and characteristics are at the heart of your production. Only with an industry-specific ERP system do you gain the transparency and control you need – for safe operations, complete traceability, and efficient use of your resources. This ensures product quality while laying the groundwork for the long-term success and future viability of your business.