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SUPPLIER QUESTIONNAIRE

SUPPLIER QUESTIONNAIRE
Company Name: Ref.No:
Version

Please complete this questionnaire, by hand and within 30 days return to (Name of
contact person).

Name and title of person returning


the questionnaire
Date

Are you: Producer Distributor Contract Contract Lab


manufacturer

Name of substance/s supplied

Annexes: Questonnaire APIs/Excipients/Packaging/QC-Labs/Toll Manufacturer etc.

1 General Information

1.1 Primary contacts

1.1.1 Name of company

1.1.2 Adress of company

1.1.3 Telephone Number

1.1.4 Fax Number

1.1.5 E-Mail

1.1.6 Web site

1.1.7 Name of Chief Executive

1.1.8 Name of Sales Respresative

1.1.9 Name of QP/Members of the


Quality Unit

1.1.10 Name of person responsible


for Quality Management

1.1.11 Name of person responsible


for Regulatory Affairs

1.1.12 Name of person responsible


for Customer Service

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1.1.13 Company organigram

1.1.14 Number of employees in


total

1.1.15 Number of employees in


QC/QA/QM

1.1.16 Number of employees in


production

1.1.17 Number of employees in


Administration

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1.2 Company Profile

1.2.1 If the company is part of a


larger group, give the name and
address of head office
1.2.2 Legal Status of the Company

1.2.3 Annual Turnover 1 10 10 100 100 1000 >1000

1.2.4 Founding year

1.2.5 Business activities

1.2.6 Subsiduaries

1.2.7 Area of production sites

1.2.8 Location of production sites

1.3 General commercial and Customer Service

1.3.1 Would you allow us or a third


party to inspect your facilities? YES NO

1.3.2 Has any other company or


third party audited you? If yes, how YES NO
many?

1.3.3 Would you provide us a copy


of a third party audit report? YES NO

1.3.4 Please note down any major


customers particularly
pharmaceutical customers, with
whom you work (optionel)

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1.3.5 If any other companies are subcontracted in any of the activities related to this product
please give their name and address.

Activity Name and Address

1.4 Site Information

1.4.1 Would you supply a site


master file? YES NO

2 Quality System

2.1 Quality Policy

2.1.1 Is your company registred at Please attach copy of the registration letter
the responsible GMP authority

2.1.2 Is your company under Please state name and adresss of the authority
surveillance by the responsible
GMP authority

2.1.3 Does the company have Please attach copy


current ISO / HACCP / IFS / GMP
or any other relevant certification?

2.1.4 Does the certification apply to


the whole operation? YES NO

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2.1.5 If NO, please explain the


scope of the certification

2.1.6 If the company is not certified,


do you have plans to get certified? YES NO

2.1.7 If YES, when is your first


inspection expected?

2.1.8 Does your company have a


Quality Manual? If so, attach table YES NO
of contens

2.1.9 Has any Authority or


Regulatory body inspected your YES NO
facilities? Please state Name and
Country:

2.2 Quality Improvement

2.2.1 Do you carry out self-


inspections of your facilities and YES NO
systems?

2.2.2 How often?

2.2.3 How do you monitor


effectiveness and closure of
corrective actions?

2.2.4 How is the senior


management kept aware of the
quality improvement program?

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2.3 Purchasing

2.3.1 How are you suppliers


approved, and by whom?

2.3.2 Do you maintain a list of


certified, and acceptable suppliers, YES NO
categorised accordingly?

2.3.3 Do your systems allow you to


use products of unapproved YES NO
suppliers?

2.3.4 Do you purchase against


agreed specifications only?

2.4 Materials Management Warehousing & Dispatching

2.4.1 What type of pest control


system do you use?

2.4.2 How often do you inspect for


pests?

2.4.3 Are storage conditions


monitored/controlled in warehouse? YES NO

If Yes please state the ranges

2.4.4 How do you dispatch finished


goods?
own transport contract transport

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2.4.5 Do you consider the rules of


Good Distribution and YES NO
Transportation Practice?

If YES please SPECIFY

2.5 Materials Management Labelling

2.5.1 What checks are carried out on


incoming materials?

2.5.2 Do you apply in house identily


labels on incoming goods? YES NO

2.5.3 If not how do you identify


materials?

2.5.4 Do you operate First in First


out ?
YES - manual Yes - comuterised No

2.5.5 Do you operate a material


location system?
YES - manual Yes - comuterised No

2.5.6 If the system is computerised,


is it validated? YES NO

2.5.7 Do you store more than one


product per location? YES NO

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2.5.8 Do you operate a quarantine


system for incoming raw materials? YES NO

2.5.9 How do you prevent quarantine


material from being used?

2.5.10 Do you have a status labelling


system? YES NO

2.5.11 How is your batch numbering


system build up?

2.5.12 What system do you use to


maintain he traceability of materials?

2.5.13 How are rejected materials


separated?

2.6 Document Control

2.6.1 Is there a formal system for


reviewing and updating SOPs,
specifications, manufacturing YES NO
instructions?

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2.6.2 How do you ensure that


obsolete/ superseded documents
according to 2.7.1 are not used?

2.6.3 How long, how and where are


batch documents archived?

2.7 Change Control

2.7.1 Is a change control system in


place? YES NO

2.7.2 What scopes are subjected to


Change Control?

2.7.3 By whom are risks of changes


assessed, classified and authorized?

2.7.4 When and how do you inform


your customers about changes?

2.7.5 Are you willing to sign a change


control agreement YES NO

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2.8 Deviation Management

2.8.1 Is a deviation management


system in place? YES NO

2.8.2 What scopes are subjected to


Deviation Management?

2.8.3 By whom are risks of deviations


assessed? Who determines
correctives and preventive actions?

2.8.4 When and how do you inform


your customers about deviations?

2.9 Training

2.9.1 Is a GMP compliant training


system in place? YES NO

2.9.2 Is training documented and


verified by testing? YES NO

2.9.3 At what interval do you retrain


staff?

2.9.4 Which training other than GMP


is carried out?

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2.10 Complaints and Recall

2.10.1 Is there a formal complaint


procedure? YES NO

2.10.2 Do you report findings to


customers? YES NO

2.10.3 Who is responsible for this


procedure?

2.10.4 In what time period would you


normally reply to a formal complaint?

2.10.5 Is there a recall policy?


YES NO

2.10.6 Who is responsible for recalls?

2.10.6 How do you ensure


traceability of all products an case of
a recall?

2.11 Computer Systems

Are IT Systems Is the computer Does data storage


used? system validated? comply with US
requirements (21
CFR part 11)
2.11.1 For Yes No Yes No Yes No
documentation

2.11.2 Warehousing Yes No Yes No Yes No

2.11.3 Laboratory Yes No Yes No Yes No


(LIMS)

2.11.4 Manufacturing Yes No Yes No Yes No


process control

2.11.5 ERP Yes No Yes No Yes No


(Enterprise Resource
planning)

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3 Quality Testing and Release of Materials and Products

3.1 Quality Control laboratory facilities and systems

3.1.1 Do you have on-site laboratory


or QC facilities? YES NO

3.1.2 If yes, what kind of testing do


you apply?

3.1.3 Is your QC department


independent from production? YES NO
(please provide organigram)

3.1.4 Do use contract laboratories?


YES NO

3.1.5 If Yes, which labs and which


tests?

3.1.6 Are the labs accredited/


certified? According to which
standard?

3.1.7 Are the labs qualified and


audited by your company or a third
party?

3.1.8 Are written quality contracts in


place?

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3.1.9 Are all laboratory instruments


and measuring devices & calibrated? YES NO

Comment:

3.1.10 Do you maintain a calibration


schedule? YES NO

3.1.11 Are there written instructions


for the laboratory equipment? Operation YES NO

Mainteneance YES NO

Calibration YES NO

Cleaning YES NO

3.1.12 Do you have a sampling plan


for the material delivered to us?
Please give a short description.

3.1.13 Who conducts sampling and


where?

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3.2 Quality Control laboratory testing

3.2.1 Do you have specifications for


the raw materials, intermediates and YES NO
finished products?

3.2.2 Do you use reference


standards? YES NO

If Yes, which ones: EP USP OTHER

3.2.3 Is a written procedure for


handling of reference standards,
chemicals and reagents in place?

3.2.4 What testing is carried out on


the final product?

3.2.5 Are there written instructions for


the tests? YES NO

3.2.6 Are the tests validated or do


you use verified compendial
methods?

3.2.7 How do you deal with out of


spec test results?

3.2.8 Do you retain samples from raw


materials and finished products? YES NO

3.2.9 If YES, please indicate amount,


storage time and conditions

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3.2.10 Do you provide certification of


each batch/ lot of product? Certificate of Analysis

certificate of conformance

other

3.2.11 Can provide certification to


include a specific customer YES NO
requirement?

3.2.12 Do you execute storage


stability testing acc. to ICH and can YES NO
you provide corresponding stability?

3.2.13 If YES, please indicate the


shelf live/ retest date and
corresponding storage conditions.

3.3 Batch Release

3.3.1 Are there written procedures for


the dispositioning (approval or YES NO
rejection ) of incoming materials?

3.3.2 Are there written procedures for


the dispositioning (approval or YES NO
rejection ) of finished products?

3.3.3 Does a qualified person/ quality


unit review the batch records before YES NO
the batch is released and certified?

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3.4 Hygiene system

3.4.1 Are you operating a functional


hygiene system? If YES please YES NO
specify?

3.4.2 What areas are included by this


system?

3.4.3 Please describe the fey


elements and scopes of your hygiene
plan.

3.4.4 Do you operate a hygiene


monitoring system? If YES please YES NO
specify.

3.4.5 How do you evaluate your


hygiene monitoring system? Please
specify.

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3.5 Final evaluation by submittor:

No significant Minor Mayor Deficiencies N.A


deficiencies deficiencies deficiencies not
acceptable
2.1 Quality Policy

2.2 Quality
Improvement
2.3 Purchasing

2.4 Materials
Management
Warehousing &
Dispatching
2.5 Materials
Management -
Labelling
2.6 Document Control

2.7 Change Control

2.8 Deviation
Management
2.9 Training

2.10 Complaints and


Recall
2.11 Computer
Systems
3.1 Quality Control
laboratory facilities
and systems
3.2 Quality Control
laboratory testing
3.3 Batch Release

3.4 Hygiene system

Name and title of person


evaluating the
questionnaire

Date

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