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How Apex Graphics documented 40 years of pharmaceutical knowledge

Apex Graphics is a Canadian packaging supplier to the pharmaceutical industry near Toronto. Rob Townsend, Quality Assurance Manager, keeps the business compliant with strict pharma specs through documentation and training.

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  • SOC 2 certified
The newspaper printing process includes documentation and follows specific SOPs.

Results at a glance

  • 40 years of knowledge

    Now written down

  • 60+

    Team members

  • Audit-ready

    Records per employee

  • The challenge

    Quality is a core belief at Apex Graphics, built into its systems and procedures and improved through audits, training, and documentation. With strict pharmaceutical specs, keeping those processes organized and usable for training was the hard part.

    “Given the strict specifications of the pharmaceutical industry, it’s critical that all our processes are documented and that we have very solid training records. We were finding it to be a challenge to keep these processes organized and used efficiently for training.”

    Rob Townsend · Quality Assurance Manager
  • The solution

    How Whale solved it

    Whale organized Apex Graphics’s SOPs and made documentation easy to access for new and existing employees. The team values the mobile app, which lets people train on their own time at home or on the go.

  • The results

    Centralized SOPs

    SOPs and training records are centralized and easy to access across the team.

    • Faster, consistent training

      The team delivers consistent training on-site or through the mobile app, with a measurable drop in time and effort.

    • Less drain on operations

      Group training takes less out of the operation, freeing the team for the work that matters.

Before and after Whale

  • Before Whale: Every process had to be documented to meet strict pharma specs

    After Whale: SOPs centralized and easy to access for every employee

  • Before Whale: Solid training records were a requirement, not a nice-to-have

    After Whale: Existing SOPs reformatted into Whale with no rebuild

  • Before Whale: Keeping processes organized was a constant challenge

    After Whale: The team trains on its own time from the mobile app

  • Before Whale: Documentation was hard to use efficiently for training

    After Whale: Consistent training on-site or remote, less drain on operations

Customer proof

“We've been surprised at just how easy it's been to set up.”

Rob Townsend · Quality Assurance Manager

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