This interview with Patricia Santos Serrao, director of clinical and regulatory solutions, and Matt Lowe, executive vice president of Master Control, discusses the roots of problems with corrective and preventive action (CAPA) and documentation of standard operating procedures (SOPS), and how Quality Management Systems (QMS) software is being improved to address them, and to make it easier to collaborate and communicate with contract partners.

Outsourcing

Quality Systems

Supply Chain

Pharmaceutical Technology-11-15-2016

Advances in cloud-based IT and user interfaces make it easier to collaborate, but a strong foundation, based on knowledge of data and risk management principles, is needed first.