Association of Quality Assurance Professionals

SAP founded a so-called "FDA work group" with interested customers and consultants to define a common idea about GMP compliance for a software supplier. This group met several times, and SAP learned a lot about validation and qualification and changed its quality management to fulfill these legal requirements. Comparing GMP with other industry-specific quality rules like AQAP (Association of Quality Assurance Professionals) or QS 9000, SAP learned to see "validation as common sense", as Pfizer s Ken Chapman once stated in an article. SAP now has quality systems and a qualification strategy that satisfies the expectations of different industries. 

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