Vol. 40 | Vol. 40(3) - May / June 2022 | COLUMN: Quality & Supply Chain Security

What can the food industry teach pharma about the benefits of digital supply chain compliance monitoring and management?

by

Gaëlle Jaron
Rephine, Stevenage, United Kingdom

Given the criticality of end-to-end quality assurance to pharma compliance, marketing authorisation and patient safety, it is puzzling that entire industry supply chains are not subjected to more rigorous, systemised scrutiny. Even today, the vast majority of drug manufacturers perform global supplier vetting, logging, updating and reporting manually. This outdated approach is fraught with risk, while its labour intensity can result in annual costs approaching 100,000 euros for smaller companies and over half a million for larger entities, to monitor and manage all suppliers.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Gaëlle Jaron leads the digital services business of Rephine, including Rephine Catena™, its new end-to-end digital global pharma supply chain quality management solution. Rephine Ltd is a firm of deeply-experienced GMP auditors which proactively help pharmaceutical companies around the world with their supply-chain quality assurance.

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