Major Pharmaceutical Company Streamlines Product Labeling System

Document Conversion Becomes Dress Rehearsal for SPL Conversion

Challenge

Few external documents are as critical to a pharmaceutical company as product labels. Closely regulated by the FDA and other regulatory agencies, these documents deliver critical information to doctors, pharmacists and patients on drug interactions as well as instructions on how to take the medicine. Faced with increasing requirements to put more information on those packages – as well as customize the inserts for local markets in other countries – pharmaceutical companies have begun looking for ways to automate and streamline the content supply chain for those package inserts.

When one leading pharmaceutical decided to build a more efficient system for generating product labels, they also seized the opportunity to build a system that would ease the process for creating documents that meet the labeling requirements of both U.S. and European agencies. That step required them to create new core data sheets that could deliver different content for each market...