Document Control

Document control is an essential requirement in regulatory environments, touching all quality processes. It is a major stumbling block for many companies. MasterControl's document control software addresses the world's most stringent regulations and standards to ensure compliance. It reduces overall compliance cost and increases efficiency to accelerate time to market.

Document Control Challenges

MasterControl Advantages

Manual systems are inefficient, requiring tremendous man-hours in terms of routing documents, obtaining approval and signatures, face-to-face meetings to discuss changes, and search and retrieval of documents during inspections and audits.

MasterControl's document control software automates routing, delivery, escalation, and approval of documents. It can handle all types of documents regardless of the software used to create them. MasterControl features a centralised, secure repository that makes search and retrieval easy.

In a paper-based system or hybrid system, employees check out documents and other materials manually. Tracking down any document activity is difficult. Making a change in SOPs or other documents requires manual submission of a change request or discussion of the change in face-to-face meetings.

MasterControl provides automatic revision control to ensure that only the current version of a document is available. When the new revision becomes effective, access to the prior revision is cut off. The system allows you to lock down uncontrolled copies and track controlled copies.

Most companies have different systems for document control, CAPA, audit, training, and other processes. They are not connected. The people who manage these separate processes are not connected, increasing the likelihood of miscommunication. Tasks are likely to fall through the cracks from one disparate system to another.

Most companies have different systems for document control, CAPA, audit, training, and other processes. They are not connected. The people who manage these separate processes are not connected, increasing the likelihood of miscommunication. Tasks are likely to fall through the cracks from one disparate system to another.

All important documents related to the development and manufacture of a product are subject to audits and inspections. In a manual process, paper documents are hard to track and can be easily misplaced. There's nothing worse than failing to produce an important document during an audit.

MasterControl Documents provides a centralised, web-based repository for all documents essential to compliance. Auditors will need to look at only one place for anything they need. Automation makes it easier to search, track, and retrieve documents.