schülke meets diverse requirements for compliant label printing

At a glance

schülke worked with Eviden to design and implement an efficient, accurate, integrated label-printing system that complies with strict health and life sciences manufacturing regulations.

Outcomes

Efficient label printing
Prompt provision of label data to various IT systems
Legal compliance of all associated business processes

The client

schülke & Mayr GmbH, with its headquarters in Norderstedt near Hamburg, has been a global leader in infection prevention and treatment for 135 years. Committed to the mission “We protect lives worldwide,” the strategic business areas of schülke Healthcare, Over the Counter (OTC), Life Sciences and Direct Patient Care actively contribute to the safety and health protection of people in more than 80 countries.

The challenge Multiple – integrations for a label-printing solution

schülke needed a reliable system that meets all the requirements for efficient label printing and complies with legal regulations in this highly sensitive industry.

To assure legal compliance with product safety (GHS) and good manufacturing practices (GMP), schülke’s new label-printing system would have to be integrated into multiple business processes, including:

Label-data versioning and approval by the product safety department
In-line label printing in production
Label data interface to a product information management (PIM) system
Documentation of label data approvals and usages
Label tracking
Label reproducibility
Continued use of existing specialized hardware for printing on packaging

Why Eviden

Eviden’s Label Print Cockpit was chosen for schülke’s label printing software project due to its customization options aligning with the company’s needs, the proven reliability and stability, as well as the scalability to support future growth.

The successful implementation of Label Print Cockpit by Eviden has not only ensured the legal compliance of schülke with GMP and GHS regulations but has also streamlined label-printing processes, enhancing operational efficiency through seamless integration into existing business processes and technical infrastructure.

Statement from schülke

The solution – Label Print Cockpit (LPC) for SAP

Label Print Cockpit is a specialized SAP add-on solution created by Eviden for the immediate, quick and error-free creation of labels. The solution is complemented by software components from label specialist EB-Soft.

Eviden’s experts designed and implemented a solution focused on integrating label printing into existing business processes and technical infrastructure. LPC for SAP works seamlessly with schülke’s multiple interdependencies:

LPC-SAP EH&S integration

To support the product safety department’s label data maintenance and approval processes
To trigger data distribution to complementary systems
To adapt to schülke’s EH&S setup

LPC integration into existing customer code

To optimize process-integrated label printing
To trigger data distribution to complementary systems

Printer connectivity

Printer driver extension to print on specialized hardware

LPC logging

For documentation
For reviewing or reprinting labels

I was really surprised when I saw the first prototype of our product labels without any line of ABAP code. With all other software solutions, I would have had to develop an interface to our SAP. Even the SAP GLM was not as powerful as the LPC at that point of time.

Lars Bode | system developer at schülke

Outcomes – The many benefits of compliant label printing

By using Eviden’s Label Print Cockpit, legal compliance in terms of GMP and GHS is ensured through transparent and well-documented software implementation, data sources and data usage. Data verification and release procedures have been set up using the Label Print Cockpit and complementary tools, to make sure that only valid label data is printed or otherwise published. As an added benefit, a high level of automation ensures operational efficiency.

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Label Print Cockpit for SAP

Eviden’s SAP add-on solution for quick, error-free label creation.

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