Jason Boyd, senior director, Vault LIMS, Veeva Systems, gives three ways in which digital strategies can modernise quality control by creating a holistic view of workflow and quality data in biopharma lab operations.
Key insights:
- Although positive change in QC labs operations is happening, more work remains to address growing system silos and complexity while improving quality and agility.
- Looking at the complete quality ecosystem and evaluating improvement options that modernise multiple business processes can make a significant positive impact on the organisation.
- The goal should be to enable more connection and collaboration across quality and manufacturing.
With the proliferation of quality control (QC) digital projects to improve lab efficiency, more QC leaders are adopting stand-alone applications focused narrowly on a specific need. This can lead to individual biopharma labs using different tools to execute processes, making connectivity and unification difficult. Without a holistic quality data and workflow view, these disjointed solutions, coupled with increasingly complex lab workflows, cannot deliver the expected outcomes or planned ROI.