Supplier Auditing is a key activity within the pharmaceutical industry but it can be resource heavy taking significant time and input from key personnel within your organisation.

There's no getting around it, supplier auditing is a requirement within the pharmaceutical industry. In addition to being a compliance activity and playing a key role in ensuring product quality and patient safety it can provide you with useful information and insight into the third parties within your supply chain enabling you to identify areas of potential risk and to monitor the service levels you are receiving.

The audit program, processes and records need to be robust, effective and maintained. This can be a job in itself, with difficulties including obtaining on time and/or adequate responses and corrective and preventative actions from the audited sites. 

Audits need to be performed and responses reviewed by suitably experienced, trained and qualified personnel which in most cases means they will be conducted by more senior personnel, often those with key roles within the business such as Quality Assurance Managers, Directors, Heads of Quality, Qualified Persons and Responsible Persons. Exactly the roles that you may not be able to do without on a daily basis.

Using an experienced, qualified contracted auditor is an effective way of ensuring that the audit function is maintained without a negative impact on your resources and availablility of key staff whilst also ensuring that you receive a high standard of audit.

As a qualified Lead Auditor with extensive knowledge and experience within the pharmaceutical industry I can offer supplier auditing support services to meet your needs; reviewing audit programs and related processes, conducting audits or providing audit specific training to those looking to expand their skills in this area.

If you would like to discuss support for your Supplier Auditing program you can get in touch via the contact us form, email, telephone or WhatsApp.