Order Sequencing
Drag-and-drop sequencing of process orders against live line capacity.
Most manufacturing software asks you to book a call before you can see what you would actually be buying. This is the whole reference: 30 Vegam SFS apps across eight modules, and the 62 terms of batch manufacturing, each explained in one line.
Every app that ships, grouped by the module it belongs to.
Drag-and-drop sequencing of process orders against live line capacity.
Blocks commit when a component cannot cover the order.
Line, vessel and crew availability as one view.
Eight-state gate-to-unloading flow with docking-station allocation.
Gross, tare and net captured from the bridge, not typed.
Certificate of analysis states, approved, concession, rejected, pending.
GR posts to SAP with pallet ID and barcode generated.
Quarantine, released, rejected and expired across the warehouse.
Remaining shelf life and retest dates per batch.
Role-based release of material into production.
Live kit progress with per-component tolerance state.
Builds the kit from the master recipe, component by component.
Hazard codes travel with the material to the operator.
Weight read directly from the weighing terminal.
Recipe phases executed on the terminal, in order, with interlocks.
Critical control points captured from the equipment as the phase runs.
Pack and pallet build confirmed against the order.
Batch identity carried onto the label at pack.
Every event on the order with user, time and ERP reference.
Samples raised from the batch with analyst and timestamp.
Results against method and specification, back onto the batch.
Out-of-spec and out-of-tolerance events, held until dispositioned.
Review by exception, the reviewer sees what deviated.
Planned deliveries against vehicles and dock slots.
Nine states from planned to gate-out.
GI posts to ERP as the vehicle leaves.
Reason-coded downtime with availability, performance and quality indices.
Where the line actually loses time, by shift.
Every posting to and from SAP with its queue reference.
Full forward and backward trace, material to customer.
No apps match that yet: tell us what you run and we will say plainly whether we cover it.
Every term you will meet on this site, and on the plant floor, explained in one line.
Manufacturing Execution System: the software that runs and records what actually happens on the plant floor.
Manufacturing Operations Management, the wider layer around MES: planning, execution, quality, inventory and performance together.
The enterprise system of record for orders, materials and money: it knows the transaction, not the shop floor.
Electronic Batch Record: the digital account of everything that happened to a batch, built as the batch runs.
Master Batch Record, the approved template a batch must follow: recipe, steps, limits and checks.
The full family tree of a batch, every input material and every product it went into, traceable both ways.
Being able to answer "where did this come from and where did it go" for any material, in minutes not days.
Reviewing only what deviated in a batch instead of reading the entire record page by page.
The share of batches made correctly without rework, deviation or repeat testing.
The data-integrity test: records must be Attributable, Legible, Contemporaneous, Original, Accurate, plus complete, consistent, enduring and available.
Confidence that a record is complete, unaltered and attributable to whoever created it.
The automatic log of who did what, when, and why it changed: the backbone of a defensible record.
The US FDA rule for electronic records and signatures in regulated manufacturing.
The European counterpart: expectations for computerised systems used in GMP environments.
The industry framework for validating computerised systems using a risk-based approach.
Computer System Validation: the documented evidence that a system does what it claims, reliably.
Good Manufacturing Practice: the regulatory ground rules for making products fit for use.
Certificate of Analysis: the supplier’s test results for a delivered material, checked before it is accepted.
Critical Control Point: a step where a parameter must stay in limits, captured as the process runs.
Out of Specification: a test result outside its limit, which should raise a deviation, not an email.
Any departure from the approved process, recorded, investigated and dispositioned before release.
The held state of material between arrival and quality release: nothing moves until it is cleared.
How long a material or batch stays usable, with retest dates tracked so nothing expires unnoticed.
Weighing out each recipe component for a batch: the step where most batch errors are born or prevented.
Dispensing done ahead of production as kits, so the line never waits on the scale.
Assembling all components for one batch into a verified kit before execution starts.
The truck scale at the gate: in-weight minus out-weight is the delivered quantity, captured automatically.
The formal acceptance of delivered material, posted to ERP with its batch identity attached.
The ERP posting when material leaves, to production or out the gate on a delivery.
Moving received material to its storage location, with the location recorded, not remembered.
Getting the right material to the right place before the line needs it.
The approved definition of how a product is made: phases, quantities, limits and checks.
One executable step of a recipe (charge, heat, hold, sample), done in order, with its checks.
The instruction to make a specific quantity of a specific product: the unit of execution in batch plants.
A planned run of consecutive batches of the same product, sequenced to minimise changeover.
The best batch you ever made, used as the profile to compare every other batch against.
Comparing what went in against what came out, batch by batch, so losses have a location.
The digital replacement for the paper register (cleaning, usage, events), searchable and attributable.
The documented check that a line is free of the previous product before the next one starts.
Overall Equipment Effectiveness: availability × performance × quality, the honest score of a line.
Total Effective Equipment Performance: OEE measured against the full calendar, including time you chose not to run.
Time the line should have run but did not, reason-coded so patterns become visible.
Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition: the software layer operators use to watch and steer equipment.
Distributed Control System: the control layer running continuous and batch process equipment.
Programmable Logic Controller: the industrial computer that directly runs machines.
The time-series database that stores process values (temperatures, pressures, flows) for years.
The open standard that lets industrial systems from different vendors exchange data safely.
Laboratory Information Management System, where lab samples, tests and results live.
Quality Management System: the system of record for deviations, CAPAs, complaints and change control.
Warehouse Management System: receiving, putaway, inventory, picking and dispatch, tracked in real time.
Industrial Internet of Things: sensors and machines publishing their state to software.
A live digital counterpart of a physical asset or process, fed by real operational data.
The standard model for batch control: how recipes, phases and equipment relate.
The standard model for connecting enterprise systems to the plant floor: the map MES/MOM lives on.
Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points: food safety built into the process, not inspected afterwards.
Giving every saleable unit its own identity so it can be tracked and verified through the chain.
The connected plant: machines, systems and data talking to each other.
The connected plant with people back at the centre: technology that empowers operators rather than replacing them.
AI that runs entirely within your own infrastructure and boundary, your data never leaves.
AI that can carry out multi-step work (querying systems, drafting responses, routing actions) under governance.
A queryable digital counterpart of what your experts know, so the knowledge stays when people move on.
Digitising the form but not the process: a PDF on a tablet is still paper.
No term matches that. Suggest one and we will add it.
vSFS sits on top of the systems already running the plant. Nothing here needs replacing for vSFS to work.
Tell us the station you are struggling with: dispensing, review, dispatch, and we will show you that screen running against your process, not a demo dataset.