Procurement and sourcing

Pharmaceutical companies need to ensure that critical raw materials, such as API starting materials, registered intermediate, and APIs, when outsourced, are supplied by qualified vendors. If the vendor is a pure distributor, the qualification needs to be extended to the manufacturer. To ensure this need is met, Life Sciences Supply Chain Management offers the ability to manage to trace both vendors (that is, distributors) and manufacturers and to define the list of approved manufacturers by item.