Tenkara for OTC and pharma manufacturers

Tenkara for OTC and pharma manufacturers

Regulated manufacturing means documentation errors have real consequences, supply disruptions become compliance failures, and the pressure to move fast never stops. Tenkara gives your team the tools to source accurately, stay permanently audit-ready, and keep commercial commitments your production team can actually meet.

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Who Is This For

Who Is This For

Built for regulated manufacturers where documentation accuracy, sourcing integrity, and compliance readiness are not optional.

OTC manufacturers, pharma plants, and contract development and manufacturing organizations.

Procurement and quality teams are navigating strict FDA requirements while trying to keep pace with commercial timelines.

Operations leaders who need a complete, auditable record of every sourcing decision without the manual overhead of building one.

Core Tenkara Value

Core Tenkara Value

Your compliance documentation exists. It just is not where anyone can find it when it matters.

Certificates of analysis, specification sheets, safety data sheets, supplier certifications — they are somewhere. In email chains, shared drives, and the inbox of whoever handled that supplier relationship last. When an FDA auditor shows up or a brand partner requests documentation, your team spends hours or days pulling everything together. Tenkara stores every quality document at the material and supplier level where it belongs. The documentation is there the moment someone asks for it. Impermea Materials went from days of scrambling before audits to being permanently audit-ready.

COMPLIANCE DOCUMENTATION
Documents scattered · hard to find
Quality Agent
INDEXING IN PROGRESS0
Email chains
📁 Shared drives
🔗 Supplier portals
FDA AUDIT REQUEST
Search documents...
3 DOCUMENTS FOUND · ALL CURRENT
Acetaminophen COA — Batch 24A
Mallinckrodt LLC
✓ CURRENT
Vendor Approval — Mallinckrodt
Approved 2024
✓ VALID
Spec Sheet — Acetaminophen USP
Rev 6 · On file
✓ CURRENT

Your commercial team is quoting timelines that your procurement team cannot deliver.

It happens constantly in regulated manufacturing. Commercial commits to a launch date based on what sounds reasonable. Procurement then sources, qualifies the supplier, verifies compliance documentation, and realizes the timeline was never achievable. Tenkara keeps commercial and procurement working from the same real-time sourcing data. The timelines your commercial team quotes are the timelines your plant can actually meet.

LAUNCH TIMELINE
Two teams · two different timelines
Sourcing Agent
COMMERCIAL TEAM COMMITTED
Customer inquiryJan 15
Proposal sentJan 22
Launch date committedMar 1
PROCUREMENT REALITY
Supplier qualificationJan→Feb 12
Compliance docs verifiedFeb 12→28
Earliest possible deliveryApr 15
TIMELINE GAP45 DAYS
ALIGNED TIMELINE
Supplier qualification
Jan 15 → Feb 12
IN PROGRESS
Purchasing commences
Mar 1
SCHEDULED
Production ready
Mar 15
CONFIRMED
Earliest delivery
Apr 15
REALISTIC
✓ BOTH TEAMS WORKING FROM THE SAME TIMELINE

A single-source dependency on a critical active is a production stoppage waiting to happen.

For OTC manufacturers, a supply disruption is not just a procurement problem. It becomes a compliance problem, a recall risk, and a customer relationship crisis simultaneously. Tenkara maps your full supplier landscape, identifies single-source exposures on critical materials, and maintains qualified backup suppliers so you are never caught without options. When a supplier goes down, your production line does not go with it.

SUPPLIER EXPOSURE⚠ SINGLE SOURCE
Acetaminophen USP
100% — one supplier · Critical active
Quality Agent
SUPPLIER DEPENDENCY
Mallinckrodt LLC100%
⚠ PRODUCTION STOPPAGE RISK — Extended lead times · supplier constrained
QUALIFIED BACKUPS
Granules Technology
HYDERABAD, INGMP CERTIFIED
4 weeks to qualify
Mallinckrodt API
ST. LOUIS, USGMP CERTIFIED
6 weeks to qualify
SINGLE-SOURCE RISKMITIGATED

How Tenkara Works For You

How Tenkara Works For You

Before Tenkara:

Before Tenkara:

A new product or change request arrives and your team is managing three things at once: finding qualified suppliers, pulling compliance documentation, and giving commercial a realistic timeline

Every step is coordinated manually, nothing is attached, nothing is tracked from the start

Decisions go out without a documented trail behind them

The cost of a wrong supplier choice is not caught until it is already a problem

After Tenkara:

After Tenkara:

Agents reach out to your approved suppliers and collect responses automatically

Required documentation is attached to each option without anyone on your team coordinating it

Commercial gets a realistic timeline and sourcing has a complete picture from the start

Commercial gets a realistic timeline and sourcing has a complete picture from the start

Industry Specific Capabilities

Industry Specific Capabilities

EVERY COMPLIANCE DOCUMENT ATTACHED TO THE MATERIAL IT BELONGS TO

Certificates of analysis, specification sheets, and regulatory certifications live at the material and supplier level. Your team retrieves them in seconds, not days, when a customer, auditor, or brand partner asks.

Certificates of analysis, specification sheets, and regulatory certifications live at the material and supplier level. Your team retrieves them in seconds, not days, when a customer, auditor, or brand partner asks.

REAL-TIME COST INTELLIGENCE THAT PROTECTS YOUR MARGINSG FLAGS

Tenkara benchmarks your material costs against live market pricing so your team always knows when they are overpaying and has the data to renegotiate before the margin hit reaches production.

Tenkara benchmarks your material costs against live market pricing so your team always knows when they are overpaying and has the data to renegotiate before the margin hit reaches production.

A COMPLETE RECORD OF EVERY SOURCING DECISION, BUILT AUTOMATICALLY

Every change to a supplier, specification, or shipping route is logged without anyone on your team maintaining it manually. Your audit trail builds itself as your team works.

Every change to a supplier, specification, or shipping route is logged without anyone on your team maintaining it manually. Your audit trail builds itself as your team works.

DEVELOPMENT AND COMMERCIAL SUPPLIER POOLS KEPT SEPARATE AND CLEAN

Suppliers under qualification stay in a separate pool from your approved commercial roster. Your validated supplier relationships are never exposed to development-stage uncertainty.

Suppliers under qualification stay in a separate pool from your approved commercial roster. Your validated supplier relationships are never exposed to development-stage uncertainty.

Outcomes

Outcomes

Documentation is ready for any audit or customer review instantly, without a scramble

Documentation is ready for any audit or customer review instantly, without a scramble

Commercial and procurement work from the same sourcing picture, so every commitment is one your plant can actually meet

Commercial and procurement work from the same sourcing picture, so every commitment is one your plant can actually meet

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No production stoppages from supplier failures on critical materials because qualified backups are already in place before you need them

No production stoppages from supplier failures on critical materials because qualified backups are already in place before you need them

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Stop Sourcing Manually

Stop Sourcing Manually

Optimize your manufacturing workflow

Optimize your manufacturing workflow

Optimize your manufacturing workflow

Optimize your manufacturing workflow

Optimize your manufacturing workflow

Optimize your manufacturing workflow