Software Compliance Management
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Quality compliance software offers manufacturers an integrated compliance management solution, providing sustainable support for all areas of corporate governance, risk management, and compliance. Also known as compliance management software or compliance document software, compliance software enables manufacturers to manage processes for communicating, monitoring, and documenting diverse compliance activities for a full spectrum of regulations and standards throughout the manufacturing enterprise. Compliance software is an integral component within a quality management software (QMS) solution.
Manufacturers use compliance software to ensure that all product materials and manufacturing processes conform to applicable regulatory and industrial quality standards. Throughout many industrial supply chains, regulatory pressures are escalating. Compounding these pressures are environmental concerns related to climate change; globalization and the accompanying need to track, satisfy and verify compliance with regulations from numerous locations; and mass customization, which entails regulatory compliance for an ever-expanding variety of products in ever-smaller lots or batches.
Under these conditions, manufacturers need compliance management software that provides the right information at the precise time and manner needed, in accordance with major quality standards. While some manufacturers and industries have handled these requirements with paper-based or homegrown compliance software solutions, an integrated compliance software solution is becoming critical to meet the increasing demands created by growing regulatory complexity.
Compliance software manages regulatory and standards demands in areas including environmental health and safety, enterprise risk management, training and qualification, audits, and customer/supplier management.
Specific functionality supported by an integrated compliance software solution include:
Training and qualification - Compliance software provides a single repository for employee training and certification, including employee training profiles, course information, job requirements, certification expiration dates, and revised training requirements.
Assessments - Compliance software enables auditing processes, including scheduling, creation, and online execution.
Calibration and preventive management - Compliance software creates schedules and offers notifications, alerts, and escalation for all calibration and equipment maintenance activities.
Supplier management - Compliance software manages supplier assessments and evaluations, identifying issues and moving them to resolution.
Environmental management - With compliance document software, manufacturers ensure complete environmental recordkeeping, including analysis of environmental aspects and impacts and tracking of environmental targets and objectives.
Occupational health and safety - Compliance management software tracks and addresses workplace incidents, monitors safety hazards and controls, and manages policies and records.
Risk management - Compliance software helps manufacturers assess and mitigate risks using thorough risk analysis and controls testing.