| Technology Group International Profiled in Quality | | | | manufacturing plant created several challenges. |
| Digest | | | | Rebecca Gill, vice president of Toledo-based TGI, |
| Founded in 1990 and headquartered in Toledo, Ohio, | | | | noted that companies must meet the following |
| Technology Group International is a proven | | | | criteria to comply with the FDA 21 CFR Part 11 |
| technology leader delivering Tier 1 application | | | | requirements: · Unique identification and access of all |
| software functionality at a price performance level | | | | users in the system · User-specific log in IDs and |
| that can be readily accepted by organizations of all | | | | passwords for system access · User-specific access |
| sizes. Specializing in software solutions for small and | | | | to a given area within the system defined at a |
| mid-market manufacturing and distribution companies, | | | | module, program, command or field level · User |
| TGI’s integrated Enterprise Series software | | | | specific access to system data based on company, |
| suite is a complete business process management | | | | division, group or cost center · Automatic audit trail |
| solution. The product offering includes Enterprise | | | | created for entries and changes of data · Audit trail |
| Resources Planning (ERP), Manufacturing Resource | | | | by user ID · Audit trail by date and time stamp · |
| Planning (MRP), Supply Chain Management (SCM), | | | | Audit trail by data modified · Data integrity |
| Warehouse Management System (WMS), Advanced | | | | protection · Older data isn't overwritten · Older |
| Planning and Scheduling (APS), Decision Support | | | | data is inactivated to prevent future usage · |
| System (DSS), Business Intelligence (BI), | | | | Electronic signatures and approvals · |
| Manufacturing Execution System (MES), and | | | | Procedural-specific password requirements · Online |
| eCommerce. TGI implements, maintains, enhances, | | | | standard operating procedures (SOP) availability · |
| and supports its packaged distribution and | | | | Online system help · Field level help · Screen level |
| manufacturing software solutions directly and via its | | | | help · Procedure level help · Online access of |
| channel partners.Manufacturing journalist Thomas R. | | | | documents, which are stored by data field or |
| Cutler profiled beverage manufacturing HR Nicholson | | | | transaction · Flexible data archiving · Aged data |
| selection of Technology Group International for the | | | | may be accessible online indefinitely · Aged data |
| July issue of Quality Digest. According to Cutler, | | | | may be archived in a controlled mannerAccording to |
| HR Nicholson Co., pioneers in the juice | | | | Su Shaffer, senior executive with the fruit juice |
| industry, has operated for nearly a century. The | | | | manufacturer, When HR Nicholson started looking |
| company has grown from 45 employees to 75 | | | | at solutions to manage the multiple-location scenario, |
| employees in just the past six years. The | | | | production planning was critical to meet the |
| family-owned, Baltimore-based manufacturing and | | | | growth. Beyond growth, part of what drove the |
| distribution company realized that, unlike the first | | | | lean process and the search for technological |
| eighty-plus years when products were manufactured | | | | solutions were the government regulatory demands |
| and shipped from the same location, the need to set | | | | of the food industry. |
| up distribution locations separate from the | | | | |