Sage ERP X3+Formulator=Perfect Chemistry for Successful Integration

Sage ERP X3 offers a scalable solution that can grow with your business. One of the Sage ERP X3 features that users love most is the role-based menu system that provides information specific to the user and graphical workflows to support business procedures. As full-featured as Sage ERP X3 is for formula-based manufacturers, many companies still end up having to manage some functions such as lab testing and result tracking in Microsoft Excel. However, you can automate this process and also meet the new GHS regulatory requirements for SDS forms and container labels with Formulator™, which integrates with Sage ERP X3 and several other ERP applications.

What exactly is Formulator™? It is a program for the formulating chemist, food technologist and regulatory agent. Formulator is an ELN (electronic lab notebook) for the laboratory of batch process manufacturers (specialty chemicals such as paints, inks, adhesives, lubricants, cleaning materials, etc.). Other vertical markets include cosmetics, food & beverages, and nutrient supplements as well as manufacturers of pharmaceuticals.

With this solution the lab does the entire process in Formulator™, including all the testing, cost data, and analysis, which then drives the approved formulas to the integrated Sage ERP X3 software database to inventories and produces the product(s). Formulator also conveys the latest Sgae ERP X3 materials’ cost back to the chemist or food technologist, so they are always working with the most current cost data and analytics. Formulator™ speeds the formula development modification and improvement processes while providing the latest calculations and data management tools.

Formulator™ also provides the regulatory (M)SDS forms and hazardous container labeling that the new GHS requirements mandate. It authors “Product Data Sheets” and includes nutrient calculations and labels, quality control testing (can also be used as a QC test result in a historical archive for standard production), cost analysis, and includes other features that most ERP systems do not have.  

If you are ready to learn even more about how we can assist you with a new ERP solution for your formula-based manufacturing company, please call The TM Group / Greenstone Professionals today at 888.482.2864, or visit our website, www.tmgroupinc.com. Each customer matters to us, and our team of consultants and engineers are dedicated to making your business a success story.

Submitted by: Jennifer Swiderski, Marketing Manager – The TM Group – in collaboration with James DeGroff, Managing Partner – Formulator™.