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EMA / EU medicines and GxP

GxP inspectors do not audit the procedure manual. They audit whether the process described in it is the process actually followed, batch after batch, site after site. IGX360 Insights gives pharmaceutical and biotechnology organisations a live, evidenced view of that alignment, so an EMA or national competent authority inspection is not the first time the gap between documented and actual practice gets found.

10 problems for EMA / EU medicines and GxP

We do not know how work really happens

  • Process discovery
  • Current-state mapping
  • Operating baseline

The documented process is an opinion rather than an operational truth. The underlying weakness is the absence of a governed, connected and queryable representation of the operating model.

Our process knowledge is fragmented and untrusted

  • Process repository
  • Single source of truth
  • Knowledge governance

Versions conflict, ownership becomes stale and people stop trusting central content. The underlying weakness is the absence of a governed, connected and queryable representation of the operating model.

We think we are compliant but cannot prove it

  • Continuous compliance
  • Control assurance
  • Audit readiness

Compliance gaps remain invisible until assurance activity begins. The underlying weakness is the absence of traceability from obligation through process, owner, system, control, execution and retained evidence.

Risks, controls, processes and obligations are disconnected

  • Risk-control traceability
  • Obligation mapping
  • Connected assurance

The organisation cannot see which processes create each risk, which controls operate within them or where coverage is absent. The underlying weakness is the absence of traceability from obligation through process, owner, system, control, execution and retained evidence.

Safety-management systems do not reliably shape daily work

  • Safety management system
  • Operational safety assurance
  • SMS embedding

Mitigations, competence, occurrence reporting and assurance are not consistently embedded in everyday workflow. The underlying weakness is the absence of traceability from obligation through process, owner, system, control, execution and retained evidence.