Quality Assurance Plan for Supply of a Medicine

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Quality Assurance Plan for Supply of a Medicine
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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Supply chain of an investigation medicine................................................................................2
Quality assurance plan...........................................................................................................2
Associated laws and regulation..............................................................................................2
Principles of supply chain for medicine.................................................................................2
Transportation options for investigated medicines................................................................2
Challenges faced in establishing supply chain...........................................................................2
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................2
References..................................................................................................................................3

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Introduction
This paper investigates the quality assurance plan for the medicine and drugs
company. The paper describes the implementation of supply chain management in order to
carry out the process. It also depicts the rules and regulation that has to be followed by the
Drug Companyand source of transportation for the same. The Supply chain management
(SCM) involves all the activities to manage the flow of goods and service. It comprises of all
the processes that is used to convert raw materials to a final product. The management of
products involves development of an effective supply chain which helps in customer
satisfaction (Christopher 2016). The SCM is the method of planning, executing and
controlling of products in an integrated manner. With the implementation of good supply
chain any enterprise can experience advantage over their competitors. SCM requires efforts
by the supplier in order to deliver potential goods and service to the customers. The method
of SCM depends upon partner to partner. Customers depends upon suppliers and suppliers
depends upon manufacturer (Monczka et al. 2015). SCM transforms the raw materials that is
needed by the enterprise to create a product to deliver the customers. It tends to improve the
performance of supply chain. SCM boosts the efficiency of the company by generating higher
profits and reducing cost. The concept of SCM helps the enterprise to plan structures that will
help in managing the resources of the organization (Hugos 2018). It helps in sourcing by
selecting their suppliers who will deliver the product to their customer. SCM helps in
building good relationship of the company with the suppliers. The process of delivering also
comes under SCM. In includes scheduling, dispatching, invoicing the customers and then
finally getting their payments.

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Supply chain of an investigation medicine
Quality assurance plan
Quality assurance plan (QAP) consists of a documentation that will help the company
to prevent any kind mistake that can occur while delivering the products to the customers. It
involves planning and strategizing that will help the business to create a 100 per cent quality
product (Arora and Gigras 2018). It contains a set of activities that will help in delivering
final product with best quality. The QMP will help in determining several policies and
procedure that help in satisfying the customers to the fullest. The objective of QMP is to
deliver standard quality product, meet the expectations of the stakeholder and customer
satisfaction. This plan helps in avoiding problems that can arise while delivering products. It
monitors and measures the quality of the productthat is manufactured and checks if there is
any deficiency in the product (Taylor 2018). It makes sure that the company provides the
desired output.
The quality assurance plan for medicine deals with all the important activities that is
essential to make sure that the medicine that is manufactured is safe for the patient to use or
not. It requires determining the types of side effects of the medicine. The QAP helps the
confirmation of the end product that whether it has met the requirements or not (Ceberg,
Benedek and Knöös 2018). The QAP checks the safety and affectivity of the product with
help of various procurement product. It maintains the quality by storing the medicines in
appropriate temperatureand monitoring them with the help of dispensers. The process of QAP
is continuous and helps in measurement and judgment of the medicine that is relevant to
disease or not (Candeias et al. 2017). Quality assurance in medical labs arenecessary on order
to provide the exact medicine to the patient. The methods of quality assurance include:
 Identification of active ingredient.