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 and reproducibility
- Continued use of existing specialized hardware for printing on packaging
Solution: Label Print Cockpit (LPC) for SAP
Label Print Cockpit is a specialized SAP add-on solution created by Atos for the immediate, quick and error-free creation of labels. The solution is complemented by software components from label specialist EB-Soft. Atos’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
The many benefits of compliant label printing
By using Atos’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.
Why Atos?
Atos’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.
