Merck Sharp & Dohme implements Active Manufacturing Integrated System
May/2007

Merck & Co., Inc. is one of the biggest pharmaceutical companies in the world. Nowadays it counts on over than 63 thousand employees and 31 operational plants and also 17 distribution centers.
The branches reports to the American HQ and follow their rules, values and standards. In Brazil the company is refer to as Merck Sharp & Dohme.

In all along the company history the path of growth has been kept, based on searching and innovation.

Today the company is globally recognized as one of the leaders in research of new products and pharmaceutical services.

In 2006, Merck Sharp & Dohme Brazil starts the implementation project for the Manufacturing Integrated System, aiming to allow the electronic documentation control for each batch produced.

The project was successfully completed and the solution was implemented on May 2007.

Merck Sharp & Dohme Brasil was a truly Active’s partner during all the project, providing a high efficient team, committed with the results and focused on the implementation goals.

According to the developer Anderson Coqueiro, the Active’s Solution main benefits are:

• Electronic Control of Recipe Versions and Check-lists

• Management of revision/approval for the Recipes and Check-lists

• Control of printed documents and copies

• On-line monitoring for each produced batch

• Management of deviations occurred in manufacturing process;

• Approval management for each batch, in order to ensure release and revision controlled by the system

• Considerable reduces of errors on documentation fulfillment and time optimization on batch release process.


Commitment, Sincerity, Integrity, Ethics, Innovation, Partnership and Social Responsibility. Once again, Active honors its values when being chosen by one of the biggest pharmaceutical industries for the implementation of a new project.