GAMP 5 - Good Automated Manufacturing Practice
Chapter 8: Efficiency improvements – GAMP 5 - Good Automated Manufacturing Practice

GAMP 5 - Good Automated Manufacturing Practice 8.7: Managing Changes Efficiently

What does 8.7 require?

Efficient change management runs with configuration management and includes a documented description and business benefit, confirmation of resources, assessment of impact on the application, infrastructure, people and documentation, reuse of the original risk assessment and assessment of new risks to define the compliance strategy including regression testing, evaluation from financial, technical and compliance perspectives at the lowest competent level before management approval, a clear line kept between changes that touch the pharmaceutical quality system and changes to how IT is delivered and serviced, minimal approval points, communicated decisions, execution and verification using traceability to find existing tests, and timely closure. Recognized weaknesses include lack of scalability for minor and routine changes, steps out of sequence, poor scheduling, abuse of emergency change, inability to prevent unnecessary change, stale specifications, failure to reuse risk and traceability information, no follow-up to close records, duplicated processes for equipment and computer systems, misapplied like-for-like principles, poorly managed supplier changes and inadequate follow-up after emergency changes.

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  • Clause 10 Change and configuration management

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