Calculate Your Serialization Cost of Inaction

Estimate the annual impact of serialization-related downtime, manual intervention, support dependency, validation effort, legacy infrastructure and delayed initiatives. 

1. Serialization estate

What is the scale of your serialization operation?

2. Downtime impact

Downtime is a critical issue in modern supply chains. Every hour that the line can significantly impact revenue.

3. Internal labour

Enter average monthly effort and fully loaded hourly cost.

Operators
Engineering / OT
TI
Quality and Validation
Other internal resource

4. Support and infrastructure

Maintaining a serialization environment can create costs beyond software licensing. Include recurring support, specialist resources, emergency intervention and legacy infrastructure costs.

5. Validation and change control

Changes to a validated serialization environment can require testing, documentation, specialist resources and production time. Estimate the annual cost of keeping your current environment validated and operational.

6. SLA performance

Estimate the operational impact when support response or resolution falls outside agreed service levels.

Include delayed production recovery, internal escalation time, premium support, specialist intervention or missed operational commitments. Avoid duplicating downtime already entered above.

7. Commercial delay

Legacy technology can delay upgrades, integrations, site changes and other business initiatives. Estimate the value of opportunities delayed because of limitations in your current serialization environment.

8. Risk exposure

Indicative planning allowance only.