MES Vendor Selection Services & More
Supporting Your Digital Manufacturing Journey.
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MES Vendor Selection
Seabrook’s Manufacturing Enterprise Solutions knowledge and experience in the Life Science Manufacturing Industry enables unrivaled insight and strategies for vendor and system selection. Selecting the right systems helps companies to meet and exceed their manufacturing needs.
Strategic & Site MES Deployment
Deploying a Manufacturing Execution System (MES) or MES individual objects into a production environment, as with any other complex software, has risks associated with it.
However, MES deployment risk can be mitigated by leveraging Seabrook Technology Group’s expertise.
MES COE / Managed Services
At Seabrook, we believe that implementation is just the beginning of the relationship with our partners. The Seabrook Managed Services Solution provides a single contract to cover routine services, but doesn’t stop there. Our support and services also enable resource continuity to retain long term value of specific implementation knowledge, and provide access to a team of thought leaders and technical experts.
Validation Testing & Strategy
Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) validation is becoming more complex with connectivity, flexibility and functionality. As regulatory scrutiny increases Seabrook’s technology assistance for clients is helping them regulations from conception throughout operation of their MES.
MES Vendor Selection
ISA-95 Analysis Vendor Selection & RFP Guidance
Seabrook’s regulated industry expertise – coupled with our Manufacturing Enterprise Solutions knowledge and experience in the life science manufacturing industry – allows our clients unrivaled insight into the strategy and process for the best selection of systems to meet and exceed their manufacturing needs.
In the vendor selection offering, Seabrook will provide a textual description of your business process mapped to the ISA-95 model for integration enterprise and control systems.
- Analysis of process documentation
- Interviews with key employees and/or departments
- On site ‘Gemba Walk’ (alternatively; process videos)
The output will be a blueprint of the current business landscape:
- Analyse the business landscape & requirements
- Create a list of potential vendors
- Create a Request for Information (RFI), and evaluate responses to generate a “short list” of vendors
- Guide the client through the Request for Proposal (RFP) process
Negotiating contracts to get the enterprise the best value for their money:
- List the priorities of the client as well as alternatives
- Display the difference between what the company wants and what the company likes
- Define any time constraints and benchmarks the company may have
- Assess potential liabilities and risks
- Confidentiality, non-compete, dispute resolution, changes in requirements
Strategic & Site MES Deployment
Deploying a Manufacturing Execution System (MES) or MES individual objects into a production environment, as with any other complex software, has risks associated with it. However, Seabrook Technology Group can help you to mitigate those risks! MES drastically changes the business process, and has a major impact on the daily business life of end users.
When implementing an MES successfully, communication is key. Successful MES implementation depends on gaining insights and input from every department that will ultimately be affected by an MES. Furthermore, Seabrook recommends that successful change management strategies be in place to ensure smooth transition and alignment between technology, personnel and existing business processes.
MES deployment is a complex endeavor, requiring a full project team. On average, MES deployment takes approximately six to twelve months depending on the complexity of the project. Additionally, the timeline and complexity are further impacted if MES is deployed in multiple sites.
Most multinational manufacturing operations that have multiple sites in various nations share information about manufacturing operations through an Enterprise Resource Planning System (ERP), or are transitioning to this model. For global manufacturers MES deployment is a major hurdle with many moving parts. Seabrook can help organizations roll out a standardized software application process management system to help global manufacturers regardless of size or location(s).
Validation
Seabrook Technology group assists clients in meeting regulatory demands from conception to go-live operation of their MES Systems.
Validation of Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) is becoming more and more complex with connectivity, flexibility and functionality. Because of this, scrutiny by regulatory authorities has dramatically increased. Seabrook Technology group assists clients in meeting regulatory demands from conception to go-live operation of their MES Systems.
Validation is accomplished by verifying each stage of the software development life cycle. Utilizing our experience and process expertise, we efficiently drive and support this validation process by providing reduced timescales and clarity of requirements – which enhances MES implementation.
Managed Services:
Implementation & Sustainability Services
At Seabrook, we believe that implementation is just the beginning of the relationship with our partners.
The Managed Services Team
Solution Director
With a goal to exceed the expectations of our client, the committed and caring Solution Director provides strategic guidance and solution governance based upon industry best practices for implementing global Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES).
Delivery Manager
At the direction of the client, our Delivery Manager plans, schedules, and directs all work done by the Seabrook team – with an overarching goal of strong, consistent communication and a focus on client satisfaction.
Solution Architect
The Solution Architect works with the client to provide design and configuration best practices. The SA serves as the primary point of contact between the client and the developers to ensure top-level design and development that follows defined requirements.
Development Team
Our highly-skilled Development Team works directly with the Solution Architect to refine the design as need, and determine and build the solution.
Support Manager
The Support Manager leads the support & sustainability team, governs the Service Level Agreement (SLA), and is an handles any issues or concerns that escalate from the Support Team.
Support Team
Our dedicated Support Team consists of technical resources servicing the SLA-based support arrangement.
Arranging a Managed Services Agreement with Seabrook:
Right-Size Your Pool of MES Expertise
- Review goals and confirm that your agreement fits your goals
- Establish your MES deployment strategy
- Review and determine your site deployment work, including maintenance and support needs
- Develop a resource plan based upon your timeline
- Determine what skill sets will be needed
- Select sufficient full time equivalent (FTE) hours to meet your schedule and balance your demand
- Lastly, to tailor your agreement to meet your needs, high-level planning is needed. Carefully carefully your deployment strategy by asking questions such as “How many sites will we bring online in the next year?” and “What features will be covered in each phase?”