Why can't one use Excel or Pen & Paper to manage quality at a FDA regulated company

If you have five products and that's all that your company is making potentially is manageable with an Excel spreadsheet, as soon as you start scaling up or you're making changes to those five products, let's just say you have 20 products, 30, 40, 50, 60, and you're trying to manage everything.

You know, when I first started here, we had this amount of products.

Was it manageable to do it the way we were without any system? Yes.

But as soon as you start finding out that documentation has changed and then you're trying to where are you saving that in the folder? How does everybody know that it's changed? No alerts are going out unless you're sending an email and no one wants a million emails.

I mean, like we've grown so much, it would be impossible to do everything on paper without a quality management system.

If we didn't have Unifize it would create a disaster. We would be back to square one with finding different ingredients, reviewing the documentation, figuring out how ingredients are different or similar to each other, We would have to obtain all of that information, again.

I can't imagine. I think it would be catastrophic. We would have to start from zero with so many different things.