Ci-DMS has been designed to be used in the pharmaceutical manufacturing environment to control the manual and bulk dispensing of raw materials and their addition into mixing/process vessels. It has also been designed for the processing of extemporaneous prescriptions and products made under a ‘Specials’ licence. In addition Ci-DMS supports the dispensing of packaging materials.
Ci-DMS can be used to produce stock labels for supplier goods received at the warehouse. These labels are uniquely numbered. They also contain a barcode of the material, lot and pack number and other information pertinent to the customer (e.g. supplier lot code, health and safety icons, etc.). This information can be automatically sent to the host system, if required, via the host interface.
Released orders are transferred from the host system to Ci-DMS (usually a week in advance). A suitably qualified user (e.g. the dispensary supervisor) schedules these orders/ingredients to dispensing booths, prioritises them, creates campaigns and allocates stock as required. Dispensed material can also be scheduled for addition into specific mixing/process vessels in production. Booth assignment and order/batch related reports may be produced as required.

Ci-DMS controls the dispensing of both raw and packaging materials (usually in different areas) and offers a range of dispensing methods to achieve this. Raw material may be dispensed into individual containers or IBC’s. When dispensing into individual containers Ci-DMS produces a dispensed label for each weighing. This contains both textual and barcode information which is used for material identification at later stages of production. When dispensing into IBC’s Ci-DMS produces an IBC container label.
Ci-DMS also maintains the clean state of the booth and controls the validation of the scales. The dispensing summary report (containing information relating to each dispensing such as the weight,
date/time operator, etc.) forms part of the Batch Manufacturing Record (BMR).