Robert Gaertner, director of strategy for quality at Veeva, explains how digital transformation is improving pharmaceutical processes across the industry.
Digital transformation
Advancing digital technology is bringing new opportunities to improve quality and efficiency in the pharmaceutical industry. Many life science organisations are transforming manual and document-centric processes into more data-driven ways of working. They are replacing a formerly siloed system landscape with unified and connected applications.
In pharmaceutical manufacturing this addresses long-standing inefficiencies, placing product supply units in a stronger position to meet future demands. It is important for manufacturing operations to become more agile, while embracing the new paradigm of precision medicine. Enabling the creation of a connected shop floor allows for real-time visibility across data and processes for better tracking and analytics. This is a pre-requisite for adaptive manufacturing and continuous improvement.