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About
Electronic Batch Records (GMP, Data Integrity, Validation) training provides comprehensive knowledge of managing electronic manufacturing records in regulated pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and life sciences environments. The course covers GMP requirements, Electronic Batch Records, data integrity principles (ALCOA+), electronic records and electronic signatures, 21 CFR Part 11, EU GMP Annex 11, audit trails, and computerized system validation (CSV).
This Electronic Batch Records (EBR): GMP, Data Integrity, and Validation Training Course & Certification provides practical understanding of implementing, validating, and maintaining compliant EBR systems. Participants will learn validation lifecycle activities, risk-based validation approaches, documentation practices, change control, deviation management, user access management, data review, and inspection readiness to ensure regulatory compliance, product quality, and data integrity.
- Manufacturing and Production Professionals
- Quality Assurance (QA) and Quality Control (QC) Professionals
- Validation and Computerized System Validation (CSV) Specialists
- Regulatory Affairs Professionals
- IT and Digital Systems Professionals
- Process Engineering and Manufacturing Excellence Teams
- Internal Auditors and Compliance Professionals
- Anyone involved in implementing, validating, managing, or reviewing Electronic Batch Record systems in regulated life sciences organizations
What you will learn
Understand the fundamentals of Electronic Batch Records (EBR), including GMP requirements, batch record lifecycle, electronic documentation, and the role of EBR in pharmaceutical manufacturing.
Learn data integrity principles, including ALCOA+, electronic records and electronic signatures, audit trails, 21 CFR Part 11, EU GMP Annex 11, and regulatory expectations for compliant EBR systems.
Gain practical knowledge of computerized system validation (CSV), including validation lifecycle, risk-based validation, user requirements, testing, documentation, change control, and periodic review.
Understand best practices for implementing and maintaining Electronic Batch Record systems, including data review, access controls, deviation management, governance, inspection readiness, and continuous improvement.
Course Syllabus
- The purpose of the batch record
- US predicate requirements (21 CFR 211.186/188/192)
- When electronic-record rules apply (21 CFR Part 11)
- EU requirements (Annex 11 and Chapter 4)
- The EBR spectrum — eight models
- EBR benefits — conditional on design and control
- EBR risks
- Process understanding
- Process inputs and outputs
- Critical steps and controls
- Designing the master batch record
- Electronic workflow design
- Human versus automated checks
- Master-data governance
- Poor design patterns
- Typical EBR architecture
- System boundaries
- Data sources
- The system of record
- Interface controls
- Interface failures
- Cloud and SaaS EBR
- Time and sequence integrity
- User-access lifecycle
- Roles and permissions
- Segregation of duties
- Electronic signatures
- Audit trails
- Audit-trail review — risk-based
- ALCOA+
- Dynamic data and administrator controls
- Exception concepts and overrides
- Exception versus deviation
- The exception workflow
- Overrides and their control
- Review by exception — what it does and does not mean
- Designing review rules
- Exception overload
- Quality batch review
- Validation principles and lifecycle
- Requirements
- Risk assessment
- Testing strategy and traceability
- Supplier assessment
- Supplier documentation
- Validation deviations
- Release for use
- Current-state assessment
- Process harmonisation
- Implementation approach
- Data migration and migration controls
- Cutover
- Training and competence
- Human factors and hypercare
- Change management
- Executed-record completeness
- Quality review of the batch record
- Supporting the QP release decision
- Record retention, backup and recovery
- Business continuity
- Periodic review of the operating system
- Inspection readiness and common deficiencies
- Metrics and continual improvement
- Recap one theme per screen, in the order you learned them
- See the whole EBR pathway on a single flow
- Revisit the guardrails that keep an electronic record compliant
- Follow the Northstar journey end to end
- 📘 Bonus:Electronic Batch Records (GMP, Data Integrity, Validation) eBook (Free with purchase)
Course Benefits

Get our exclusive eBook with every purchase - a complete companion guide to the course, yours to keep forever
Gain Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Points, accredited by The Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians of the United Kingdom. These can be used to count towards the distance learning element of any scheme that comes under the umbrella of The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges or any other scheme for which there is mutual recognition.
Receive a personal certificate to show your subject knowledge on course completion.
You get excellent value through our cost-effective prices. We can also offer you group discounts on larger purchases.
The course saves you time through the convenience of online availability. This lets you complete the interactive course at your own comfort.
You will stay up to date with changes to 21 CFR 210/211 and 21 CFR Part 11, EU GMP Annex 11 (noting the 2025 draft revision published 7 July 2025 and the proposed Annex 22 on AI, both not yet effective) and Chapter 4, and PIC/S PI 041 on data management and integrity, as our training courses are constantly monitored, reviewed and updated.
The course content has been developed by GMP and computerised-system-validation specialists with experience of EBR/MES implementation, data integrity and QP batch release, so that learners can apply the material directly on the shop floor and in the quality unit.





