PDA Letter Article

A Risk-Based Approach to Supplier Management

by Rebecca Stauffer and Aneeta Mathur-Ashton, PDA

World Management

Roche/Genentech’s Ralph Quadflieg Discusses the Company’s Supplier Oversight

As the supply chain grows ever more complex, firms must closely monitor suppliers of raw materials, APIs and excipients. Ralph Quadflieg, PhD, Global LPS Lead for External Quality, Roche/Genentech, will present his company’s risk-based approach for managing APIs, excipients and primary packaging materials, providing best practices for managing a large portfolio of materials and suppliers, in the session, “C5: Ingredient Supplier Oversight,” Sept. 25, 4 p.m., at the 2018 PDA/FDA Joint Regulatory Conference in Washington, D.C.

Recently, he provided some information from his talk to the PDA Letter.