Infarmasa Corporation reduces 70% of its paper use and printing costs with electronic document management

The search for improvements for the quality management system at the Infarmasa Corporation, one of Peru's largest pharmaceutical industries, was justified by its need to control the documentation related to the quality management system in terms of emission, revision, distribution, filing and validity. According to Rosario Romaní, BPM/ISO manager at Infarmasa, the company needed to streamline document processing, had excessive costs with paper, and also needed to increase the fluidity of communication on the status of the documentation. "The document management system allowed us to save approximately 70% on paper and printing costs, as well as 5% in terms of the work hours of those people involved with the signing, photocopying and distribution of documents", said Romaní.

The system allowed the Infarmasa Corporation to electronically manage the documentation that supports the ISO 9001 and Good Manufacturing Practice (BPM) quality certificates, approved by the Brazilian Ministry of Health Medication Head Office. "We are satisfied with the implementation of the document management solution, since it allowed us to save paper and the time of the professionals responsible for printing and distributing the some 1,800 documents available in the quality management system", she added. The system allows users to maintain documentation accessible to all people involved with the processes and in compliance with the controls established by the ISO 9001 norm and BPM.

About the Infarmasa Corporation

The Infarmasa Corporation is one of Peru's largest pharmaceutical corporations and offers a wide range of products. It has approximately 600 employees and annual production of 20 million units. The company is in constant growth in the national and international market and is present in countries like Ecuador, Venezuela, Panamá, Chile and the United States.

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