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By Your Side for Optimal Patient Outcomes – A Quality Perspective
In order to ensure the best quality drug product and optimal patient outcomes, it’s important for drug manufacturers to foster a collaborative effort with their packaging suppliers from the beginning – and that means starting with the patient in mind. Understanding patient needs and how that drug will be delivered, whether through one of West’s delivery devices or some other device, will help determine the needs within the West manufacturing process.
By working by the side of our customers early in the drug development process, we are able to clearly understand what the specific containment and delivery requirements are for their drug product and select the appropriate packaging and delivery systems and materials. These early conversations allow us to align capabilities across the globe to meet high-quality expectations throughout the entire manufacturing process.
For example, we need to consider the particle load throughout the supply chain – including other facilities, materials and processing involved in the production and delivery of the drug product – to ensure that we’re mitigating any additional burden that may exist later in the process that could impact the final quality. West takes an active role in supporting our pharmaceutical partners in this process, working collaboratively to develop a solution for the total supply chain.
In addition, quality standards are incredibly important when it comes to the combination of emerging drug molecules and delivery devices. Previous standards didn’t necessarily take into account the unique containment needs of biologics or other large molecule drugs. Additionally, old standards didn’t address the total drug containment and delivery system, but instead focused on individual components, such as stoppers and vials. It’s a completely different supply chain, and the standards need to be updated to address the needs around current drug molecules and delivery systems as well as future therapeutic offerings.
Working by the side of our customer, we can ensure that patients are always in the forefront of the production process, and that the quality of our manufacturing reflects the need for optimal patient delivery. When we understand better how our products will be used and what’s needed to align the capabilities, we can meet or exceed the quality expectations needed for our customers and ultimately the patient.
This March, West and its Women’s Initiative Network (WIN) are proud to join organizations around the world in celebrating International Women's Day and Women’s History Month to recognize female achievement. We are especially proud to celebrate our female team members’ invaluable contributions to West & the pharmaceutical and manufacturing industries at large.
West is honored to be a recipient of the 2020 Faces of Philanthropy Award from the Philadelphia Business Journal. The Faces of Philanthropy Awards honor partnerships between corporations and nonprofit organizations in the Philadelphia region as they work together to deliver impactful philanthropic initiatives.
Today I am a Senior Vice President at Novo Nordisk one of West’s biggest customers. <br /> <br />A few years ago, I used to work quite closely with the West team. I clearly remember my first negotiations with West. Our interactions gave me the feeling that your team members had a deep understanding of our patients, the urgency of the particular matter we were negotiating about. I was under no mistake that their attitude and behavior towards my organization demonstrated a thorough wish to continue working together for many years to come.
<span>Finding the perfect home can be a challenge. Upfront research could be the difference between selecting a home with a dry basement, or one with a faulty foundation. And once purchased, failure to address small problems can result in big losses. While making a larger investment upfront may be difficult, it pays off in the long run.</span>
On Saturday, July 13, a team of West colleagues and family members participated in the 2013 Merrell Down & Dirty National Mud and Obstacle Series in Philadelphia, Pa. The run is a 10k with a series of obstacles including: <a href="http://www.downanddirtymudrun.com/obstacles/straw-bales-slippery-mountain/"><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;">slippery mountain and inflatable</span></a>, <a href="http://www.downanddirtymudrun.com/obstacles/mud-pit-water-crossings/"><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;">mud pit and water crossings</span></a>, and <a href="http://www.downanddirtymudrun.com/obstacles/marine-hurdles-cargo-net-climb/"><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;">Marine hurdles and cargo net climb</span></a>.