As pressures on global supply chains increase, pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical device companies are recognizing that supply chain resiliency depends not only on internal strengths, but on the importance of external partnerships that are fully aligned with their goals and expectations. For companies evaluating a Contract Packaging Organization (CPO), it’s no longer enough to assess capacity or capabilities. Today, companies must rethink contract packaging and find partners that go beyond providing packaging services. Instead, they should seek partners that enhance manufacturing processes with flexibility, responsiveness, agility, and a deep commitment to quality. The greatest value is working with a CPO that serves as a strategic partner and extension of their team.

Integrating Quality & Compliance Into Every Phase

Quality and compliance remain the cornerstone of pharmaceutical packaging. Pharma companies need CPOs that have a well-established quality system that ensures proper documentation and meeting all regulatory and compliance expectations. However, the greatest benefits are when CPOs are devoted to delivering quality at scale without sacrificing efficiency. It is the intersection of quality and responsiveness that defines the most valuable contract packaging relationship. Leading providers understand this and structure their operations with quality as the foundation, enabling flexibility and agility. By prioritizing quality, providers reduce the risk of delays and deviations while enabling faster decision-making and accelerated timelines. 

With over 35 years of experience, Praxis has developed a quality culture that runs across every level of its organization. From production to executive leadership, quality is built into the mindset of everything they do. Praxis provides flexibility, agility, and responsiveness to meet or exceed customer timelines, without compromising compliance. This is achieved through a comprehensive onboarding process designed to anticipate quality and compliance needs. With a proactive approach, Praxis builds quality into every process, assuring customers that products are safe, consistent, and compliant. Committed to excellence, Praxis is proud to be audit-ready and have an exceptional history of successful inspections with the FDA*, DEA, EPA, customers, and outside certification bodies (*with zero 483 observations).

Building a Stronger Supply Chain with Operational Agility

Unexpected manufacturing delays, seasonal demand spikes, and other surges can be difficult to predict—yet they can significantly disrupt the supply chain, with serious implications for patient access and health outcomes. As the final step before finished goods enter the supply chain, the responsibility to stay on schedule is absolutely crucial. That’s why operational agility and the ability to execute quickly is essential. The most effective contract packagers are equipped to handle short runs, reallocate resources, and adapt to different packaging formats without requiring lengthy changeovers. That level of responsiveness is a strategic advantage when production timelines change, or market demands require a quick response. For Rx and OTC products, it’s not just about being fast—it’s about being reliably fast, every time.

Praxis Packaging has designed its operations around this exact need. Positioned to support short timelines and unexpected volume changes, Praxis uses automated, manual, and semi-automatic processes, and is uniquely built for rapid changeovers. Regardless of the complexity of packaging, Praxis exceeds client expectations with the infrastructure and expertise to get projects onboarded, packaged, and into distribution quickly. Whether it is to assist launching a new SKU, ongoing primary or secondary packaging, or on-demand support, Praxis is experienced to handle aggressive timelines.

Praxis has also taken deliberate steps to build resilience into their supply chain approach for customers, qualifying multiple suppliers for each material component. Praxis’s strategic inventory practices ensure that key components are always in reserve, so that changes in forecast or urgency don’t affect the product timeline. This isn’t just about contingency planning, but about protecting brand integrity and the supply chain. When delays happen upstream, Praxis helps make up the time.

As the Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA) evolves, companies are at a significant advantage working with a partner that brings serialization expertise and experience. Praxis’s combination of experience, speed, and agility results in rapid turnaround of serialization projects, typically within just a few days. With annual capacity exceeding 40 million serialized units, Praxis provides comprehensive exception management, repackaging and rework with seamless data integration to other supply chain partners. 

The Value of Strategic Partner Model

Pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical device companies are looking for partners experienced with a wide range of packaging types and formats. A CPO that has both primary and secondary packaging experience is better positioned to support a more streamlined, end-to-end process. This enables faster speed-to-market and greater agility when timelines or volumes shift unexpectedly. However, capabilities alone are not enough. A strategic partnership is formed when the external packaging partner aligns with quality, operations, engineering, and client relations to collaboratively solve problems, drive efficiencies, and anticipate challenges before they arise. Effective collaboration from onboarding through production relies on ongoing communication and shared visibility into inventory, scheduling, and production status.

Praxis is built to serve the pharmaceutical industry, with capabilities in primary packaging for Rx and OTC solid-dose bottle filling and blistering, primary filling of liquids, creams, and pastes, as well as secondary packaging services like brite-stock labeling, cartoning, stretch carding, clamshells, and blister carding. With a relentless focus to ensure customers are supported across the lifecycle of the project, Praxis’s customer service team provides ongoing communication for inventory, materials, planning, scheduling, and production status. Praxis also provides innovative problem-solving with its in-house engineering team, identifying and validating packaging configurations quickly, supporting line setup, and helping clients balance manufacturability with shelf presence, sustainability, and functional performance. To meet growing customer needs, Praxis is expanding its facilities by over 125,000 square feet. With expected readiness by mid-2025, plans include additional solid-dose bottle filling, solid-dose blistering, secondary packaging lines, and quality control lab. This growth further strengthens Praxis’s ability to support pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical device companies of all sizes—enabling them to focus confidently on their core strengths. 

Contract packaging should be considered a strategic function that supports supply chain continuity. When internal packaging capacity or capabilities are limited, Praxis becomes a natural extension, offering flexible support for product launches, ongoing runs, sampling, and kitting. Praxis’s consistent performance, responsiveness, and commitment to quality have positioned them as a trusted, long-term strategic partner. 

Are you rethinking your contract packaging expectations? Reach out to Praxis Packaging to discover how their tailored solutions can deliver value beyond the line.