VAWD Accreditation for a Safer Supply Chain: A Closer Look With our strategic location in close proximity to one of the nation’s largest distribution hubs, our ability to provide expedited shipping, and our extended service hours, we can ensure that pharmaceutical products can reach any location in all 50 states on time, every…
A Closer Look at State-of-the-Art Clean Room Packaging & Assembly In the medical device industry, it’s the topic on everyone’s minds, at all times. And for good reason: risk affects patients and outcomes, supply chain and productivity, manufacturers’ reputations, and companies’ bottom lines. Risk can take many forms, one of them being…
Navigating Converting Your Product Lines to Sterile Packaging In spring 2017, the European Parliament approved and formally adopted the EU Medical Device Regulation (MDR). In brief, the MDR is a regulatory push to increase medical device safety in the EU market. It specifies that devices delivered in a sterile state should be designed,…
Recall Processing: How to Contain Risks and Costs in Voluntary and Mandatory Recalls This topic is the one that no manufacturer ever wants to talk about. No OEM wants to be subject to a federally mandated recall or undertake a voluntary recall. Recalls of any kind are bad for patients, for reputations, for…
Solving the Complexity of Package Validation for the High-Growth Firms It’s a topic of continual interest to us, as well as to firms in the orthopedic device industry. This year alone, we’ve looked at it from several angles: from what drives orthopedic-specific complexity to how tier 1 services can effectively counter it and four key ways to…
Boosting Velocity with Just In Time Supply Chain Management and Faster Inspection In any business dependent on its supply chain, the goal is to deliver the products your customers need when they need them—as cost-effectively as possible. For many OEMs, especially in medical device manufacturing, that goal is elusive. Why? The answer…
Optimizing Inventory Management with the ‘Circle of Life’ Approach Most medical device manufacturers are already great at shipping high volumes of inventory. By that, we mean assembling finished goods and pushing them out to the field. Shipping inventory out, though, is just one aspect of a strategic, full “circle of life” approach…
The Challenge and Risk of Continual Sourcing: Why Squeezing Your Supply Chain Can Cost You More Looking to save costs? Of course—all businesses are. That’s because there are two sides to profitability: driving topline revenue growth and ensuring your operations are as efficient as possible. In recent years, seeking this efficiency, many…
Two Strategies to Free Capital Captured in Consignment Inventory No doubt you know about the La Brea Tar Pits, the gooey natural asphalt in present-day Los Angeles that trapped over three million animals during and since the last Ice Age. What captures our collective imagination is the idea that so many animals went…
Three Ways to Reduce the Effects of Orthopedic-Specific Complexity Often the result of rapid growth, complexity can bring complications to your business, and it can imperil your growth and profitability. You’ve heard it before—from us, as well as from other professional sources that carry weight. Despite the challenges it brings, complexity isn’t…