CAPA software is designed to help you streamline your quality assurance processes, and these systems can take a company through some simple steps to make sure that everything is dealt with and that problems are properly identified and resolved.

The first steps involve a defining and appraising the problem. This is important to make sure that the resolution phase is appropriate to the problem at hand. The next steps deal with discover and examination. This is where you start to find out what actions should take place, and what caused the CAPA to be triggered in the first place. Finally, you have to deal with the action and implementation stages. These steps make sure that you put the recommended actions into practice. Only then can you consider an action fully resolved.