The importance of integrated management systems in pharmacy

Abstract

Quality management is very important segment of business in pharmaceutical industry which primary objective is to provide a quality product to customer for the purpose of preserving human health. The increasing number of companies apply numerous quality systems, hence the need for a comparative review of quality management systems and its optimization in order to find suitable model for the integration of these systems. The improvement of integrated management and quality systems has become an imperative of company's business development and survival. It is economically acceptable to use synergy potential in the field of quality management for the purpose of significantly improving company's business competitive position with a relatively small investment. In addition to this, with the integration of different management systems companies become more agile, profitable and more competitive, which is a condition for its survival on the global marketplace. Integrated management systems combine all the components of management systems into a coherent system thus enabling the achievement of company's policy and goals. Basically, there are three approaches for establishment of integrated quality management systems: the Sequential approach, Parallel approach and Combined approach.