Sustainability and Green Manufacturing with ERP Solutions

Do you remember the barbaric cyclone Idai that took lives of more than 1000 people across Zimbabwe, Malawi and Mozambique in March 2019?

In the running year, i.e. 2024, from end of April to the beginning of May, the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, witnessed 500-700 mm rain, which was around half of the annual rainfall.

UAE was flooded causing delays in flights on the world’s busiest hub of international travel.

There are various signals that ring the bells and alarm us to hear the monstrous sound of climate change.

This brings us to the solution, which is to focus on sustainable and green development. When it comes to development, manufacturing plays an important role. Thus, green and sustainable manufacturing can bring lot of relief in the situation in times to come.

Governments across the world are pushing manufacturers to cut down their emissions and participate in sustainable manufacturing. A manufacturing ERP can be a great aid in achieving the benchmark.

This newsletter highlights how a manufacturing ERP can assist manufacturers to achieve their go-green goals.

How does manufacturing ERP help in green manufacturing initiatives?

Manufacturing ERP plays a significant role in ticking the box of green manufacturing initiatives.

Supply Chain Optimization-

Supply chains are quite volatile and are susceptible to disruptions.? This volatile nature of the supply chain generally causes wastage due to poor communication between vendors, manufacturers and customers.? Lack of coordination between manufacturers and various delivery partners increase magnitude of wastage.?

With a manufacturing ERP like BatchMaster ERP for manufacturing at your side, you can foster amiable communication and relations with vendors/customers/ delivery partners, facilitating a flawless supply chain. Manufacturers can improve collaboration with suppliers and reduce inventory lifetime miles, thereby reducing their carbon footprint.

Inventory classification-

ERP software for manufacturing allows the classification of inventory on various basis. This feature makes inventory management easy and safe. Thus, hazardous materials, allergens, materials with high potency and such, can be nomenclated, categorized and stored differently, ensuring their safe handling.

Optimizing resource utilization-

ERP systems provide real-time visibility in resource consumption, allowing manufacturers to calculate wastage. It also facilitates material tracking through methods like LIFO, FEFO, etc., allowing manufacturers to consume materials which are about to expire.

This way, they can make sure that materials are utilized optimally and very less go to waste.

Precise planning-

Manufacturing ERP software like BatchMaster ERP, helps in precise planning- both in purchase and in production. Thus, you can easily avert situation of over production or over storage of raw materials. This precise planning helps in minimizing excess inventory, reducing wastage, and lowering the impact of storing and disposing of unsold goods.

Ensuring compliance-

Compliance is ever changing and ever-evolving area and it is usually a concern for manufacturers. ERP helps manufacturers to keep up with the changing environmental compliance norms and automate compliance. ?This automation frees up resources to focus on other sustainable practices.

Traceability-

Manufacturing ERP solutions help organizations to trace and track the whole supply chain back and forth. It helps to answer various critical questions of customers like origin of raw material, process of production, and more. Since customers are demanding the products that have less impact on environment, manufacturers are bound to assimilate good practices in their production and source raw materials from eco-friendly origin.

Material substitution-

In the pursuit of sustainability, new eco-friendly materials are now being introduced to the market more frequently. An ERP software can help and allow to substitute materials in formula. Thus, without compromising the quality of output, an ERP can replace a material with greener and sustainable alternative.?

Disposal of Hazardous Material:

To lower the impact of hazardous materials and waste on environment, newer stringent laws are being introduced. An ERP solution helps manufacturers in proper disposal of hazardous materials and waste, follows and updates the process to meet the upcoming regulations and even helps maintain documents as well as reports on same.

Reporting-

A manufacturing ERP is equipped with robust data analysis and reporting capabilities, which are indispensable for sustainability efforts.? They can collect and analyze vast amount of data to produce detailed information about various business operation including that towards sustainable production. This data allows to find gaps in efforts towards achieving sustainable and green goals.

Paperless process-

A manufacturing ERP is a digital solution which helps organizations to go paperless. With every process going digital, it helps saving huge amounts of papers, eventually helping in green initiatives of organization.

Conclusion:

Green manufacturing is the need of the hour. Organizations striving hard to cut down their emission and contribute to the environment must deploy a robust and feature filled ERP software, just like BatchMaster ERP.

The software not only supports their sustainable efforts but also saves human errors thereby reducing time and effort wastage going in redo.

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