The importance of COPQ for the pharmaceutical industry

As any senior executive within an organisation knows, the reduction of waste and, more importantly, the cost associated with that waste can have a major effect on any business. Whilst some waste is unavoidable, an executive can begin to implement principals to eliminate this additional “cost of poor quality” (COPQ) by considering which costs would be eliminated if every system, process and product in the business were run at maximum optimisation. In the pharmaceutical industry, it is not uncommon for such costs to range between 25 and 40 percent of total sales revenue1 and yet reducing the COPQ is not a well understood or implemented practice.

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