Medication packaging management: how to make the process more efficient
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Medication packaging management: how to make the process more efficient

Published in March 15th, 2024

In the pharmaceutical industry, effective medication packaging management plays a crucial role in ensuring product compliance, quality and safety. Strict regulations and complex processes require careful and innovative approaches to optimize this critical aspect of the production cycle.

The importance of packaging for pharmaceutical products

In addition to containing and protecting the product, the packaging provides important information to identify the medicine and manufacturer and the instructions for use. It must also have the minimum mandatory requirements, such as contact for emergencies, safety instructions and other legal requirements.

Constant changes in regulatory standards and the need for precision and agility in processes are challenges companies face in the pharmaceutical sector. Any modifications to packaging have to be carefully managed to mitigate errors and ensure compliance and product quality.

What steps are important in this process?

We can highlight a few of the steps that are essential for compliance in this process:

  • Specification documentation;
  • Production records;
  • Quality control documents;
  • Standard operating procedures;
  • Change and revision control;
  • Training records;
  • Maintenance and calibration reports;
  • Supplier management;
  • Chain traceability, among others.

As you can see, there are a number of crucial steps for the medication packaging documentation management process to be carried out efficiently, complying with standards and regulations and also ensuring product quality and patient safety.

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For this reason, automating this process is an efficient solution. By eliminating manual tasks, automation reduces errors and speeds up review and approval cycles, ensuring regulatory compliance and providing full traceability of any changes.

Furthermore, integration with document management systems improves operational efficiency and collaboration between departments.

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About the author
Ana Paula Anton

Ana Paula Anton

Ana Paula Anton is a Product and Market Analyst at SoftExpert. She has a degree in Chemical Engineering and a post-graduate diploma in Production Engineering. She has experience in the areas of Processes and Pharmaceutical Quality Systems, in addition to expertise in Good Manufacturing Practices, Risk Management, Audits, Process Validation and Qualification, Cause Analysis, CAPA, FMEA and Validation of Computerized Systems.

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