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Documents & Reports, Properties, Suitability 12/11/2024

Ensuring that a Formulation’s Total Concentration is exactly 100 using Suitability on Properties TOTALCONC and TOTALCONC100

Properties TOTALCONC and TOTALCONC100 If you export Formulations to an ERP system, you may have a requirement to ensure that a Formulation’s Total Concentration is exactly 100 parts, thus ensuring that the concentration of each component is a percentage of the total. This may be achieved with a couple of non-standard Properties TOTALCONC and TOTALCONC100 along with a Suitability Constraint and/or an additional scope Validity Property. Property TOTALCONC reflects the Total Concentration of a Fo...

Administration, Documents & Reports, Items, Suitability 08/05/2024

Invalid Components and Composition in CDT is Illegal Error Messages

Invalid Components and Composition in CDT is Illegal Error Messages The error messages may occur when a User attempts to Save and Check In an existing Formulation. Formpak will check the Item in the Composition of the Formulation to ensure only permitted Item Classes are used in the Composition. Also the error may occur if a User attempts to Modify an existing Composition of a Formulation and the User does not have the required Permission. If the User attempts to Save and Check In Components whi...

Administration, Documents & Reports, Suitability 23/04/2024

Suitability Check Report Includes Item Sources Structure Report from Version 45140

Suitability Check Report Includes Item Sources Structure Report on Version 45140 You can now generate a Item Sources Structure Report when printing the Suitability Check. This Report enables Users to understand the relationship between Component Items in the Suitability Check Report and the Formulation being checked. To enable this function in the application navigate to ‘Manage Application Settings’. Select Suitability Checking from the Category drop down menu. Select Yes ‘Inc...

Parties, Suitability 20/07/2023

Suitability – Exception for Party

Suitability – Exception for Party Suitability exceptions are used when a suitability rule is true for almost all circumstances, except there’s a single or small number of times when the rule does not apply. This usually means adding one constraint to limit for all, and a second constraint for the exception case. Exception for Party can be used when a suitability rule is true for almost everyone, except there’s a customer or group of customers for whom it’s not true. Examp...

Items, Properties, Suitability 20/07/2023

Suitability – Identify but Don’t Prohibit Materials in a Suitability Check Report

Suitability – Identify but don’t prohibit materials in a suitability check report Example of use: You have a customer who needs certain ingredients to be identified to them e.g. on a questionnaire, but they do not limit or ban those ingredients. Add a Yes/No Property to group the target ingredients together. For example if polycyclic musks are a target, you could use a yes/no property ‘PM’ Add PM = Yes to all the polycyclic musks Add a suitability constraint, as in the ex...

Documents & Reports, Properties, Suitability 20/07/2023

Suitability – Limit GHS labelling on final product

Suitability – Limit GHS labelling on final product How do I add suitability constraints which limit GHS Labelling on the final product? Suitability Constraints are compliance rules which are applied when you perform a Suitability Check. They are usually used to check compliance to regulatory and customer specific rules on final product labelling and ingredient use /non-use. CLP is the EU version of GHS, so setup follows the same principles. Suitability Constraints are added in ‘Manag...

Items, Properties, Suitability 20/07/2023

Suitability – Limit or ban ingredients based on property or hazard

How do I use suitability constraints to limit or ban ingredients based on their hazard or property? ‘Regulatory Item Property Limit’ allows you to target a property of an item, often a hazard, and limit it to a level or ban it altogether. These kinds of restrictions are typically customer requests. People often use this type of constraint to ban or limit raw materials with any CMR hazards, or to limit skin sensitisers. You can also limit based on other properties, e.g. Prop 65 or foo...

Documents & Reports, Items, Parties, Properties, Suitability 20/07/2023

Suitability Check in Find Matching Items

Suitability Check in Find Matching Items In Find Matching Items you have the option to include a Suitability Check as part of your search. This option is found in the ‘Library Details’ group. To access this group, you will need to click the double arrow ‘Expand’ button. Once the option is selected you are given the option to specify the Party, Application, Dosage and TO. First the system will find items matching the search criteria, then they will be checked against any s...

Suitability 20/07/2023

Suitability Constraint Conditions Overview.

Suitability Constraint Conditions Overview Exclusivity: This is a global constraint that is always present. Conforms if either:- The ‘Library’ of the Item is not ‘Exclusive’. The Company is one of the Item’s ‘Intended Parties’. Note that only one party needs to be Intended; this allows access to e.g. third- party manufacturers, testing laboratories etc on behalf of the exclusive Party Limit Property Minimum:Conforms if the value of the Property for the I...

Suitability 20/07/2023

Suitability Example List

Suitability Examples See the article links below for examples of different suitability checking Suitability Constraint Conditions Overview Suitability Constraint Conditions Overview. Suitability – Limit GHS labelling on final product How do I add suitability constraints which limit GHS Labelling on the final product? Suitability Constraints are compliance rules which are applied when you perform a Suitability Check. Suitability – Exception for Party Suitability exceptions are used wh...