Packaging Qualification Integration

Relevance

Packaging qualification is a critical element of pharmaceutical quality and patient safety, ensuring medicinal products remain protected throughout storage, handling, and distribution. As supply chains become more global and complex, life sciences organisations face growing pressure to accelerate time-to-market, control costs, and improve efficiency while maintaining regulatory compliance. Yet current qualification practices often involve significant duplication of effort, with pharmaceutical companies repeating activities already performed by qualified packaging suppliers, while valuable supplier-generated performance and transport data remains underutilised due to concerns around standardisation, traceability, and regulatory acceptance.

GOAL

The Packaging Qualification Integration (PQI) project explores whether supplier-generated qualification data can be integrated into pharmaceutical packaging processes under appropriate quality and governance frameworks to reduce redundancy, shorten qualification timelines, and strengthen supply chain collaboration without compromising quality, compliance, or patient safety.
Through industry research, workflow analysis, stakeholder interviews, and the development of an industry opinion paper, the project seeks to assess the feasibility of this approach and stimulate informed discussion on more efficient, collaborative, and sustainable packaging qualification practices across the life sciences and logistics industries.

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Project Objectives

Objective 1: Preliminary Research & Industry Insights (WP1)
Build the knowledge base for the opinion paper by gathering industry perspectives, mapping current practices, and identifying pain points.

Objective 2: Framework Development & Qualification Mapping (WP2)
Translate research into a structured conceptual model for integrating supplier qualification data.

Objective 3: Opinion Paper Development & Industry Positioning (WP3)
To consolidate research findings, industry perspectives, and the developed integration framework into a coherent, evidence based opinion paper.

Timeline

June - August

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Preliminary Research & Industry Insights

July - September

October

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Framework Development & Qualification Mapping

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Industry Opinion Paper Publication

PROJECT
SUPPORT AND
COLLABORATION.

BOD Liaison: Liew Zhong Yao, Changi Airport Group
Project Lead: Mikkel Bøttcher, DSV
Project Experts (external): Carli Derifield, Christopher Storch, Richard Wood
Internal Strategic Expert: Frank Van Gelder, Pharma.Aero
Project Manager: Sara Van Lerberghe, Pharma.Aero

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