Pharmaceutical Software

Pharma software is a booming field within the pharmaceutical industry. As data science and data analytics become more integral to drug development, manufacturing and compliance, keeping your software up to date is critical to staying competitive.

While pharmaceutical manufacturing organizations have some of the same manufacturing software needs as other industries, such as inventory management, order management, customer service, and procurement functions, pharmaceutical manufacturing software must also handle specific industry needs including process manufacturing, compliance requirements and recall management.

What software is used in the pharmaceutical industry?

Three critical features companies look for in their pharmaceutical manufacturing software are:

• Inventory management: Since pharmaceutical ingredients and products are often controlled substances and must be secured, the importance of a detailed inventory system for tracking these controlled substances is clear. Also, pharmaceutical substances often have limited shelf lives and need to be used and replaced in a timely fashion.
• Production management/ quality assurance: Production management must include recipe scaling for different batch sizes. Batch tracking, again for both ingredients and products, is mandated as part of recall management.
• Regulatory compliance: Pharma manufacturers have to work through a ton of regulatory compliance. Not only is shipping to be documented, but disposal must be secure, documented and non-polluting. New and updated pharmaceutical manufacturing systems should support the FDA’s process analytical technology (PAT) initiative.