Managing the device supply chain: Best practices

Washington, D.C. – Managing the Device Supply Chain: Best Practices will teach you how to implement best practices for managing your suppliers, whether your company is large or small. It is an up-to-the-minute guide for selecting the right suppliers ... drawing up contracts with controls that actually work ... audit policies that work ... compliance with Unique Device Identifier (UDI) rules ... and much more.

For experienced supply chain professionals, this is the perfect tool for reviewing and improving your existing processes.

Managing the Device Supply Chain features in-depth coverage of the following key topics:
Supplier selection

• How to establish and follow acceptance criteria and activities
• Best practices for establishing acceptance criteria to demonstrate sustained suitability of a supplier
• The 5 items that each approved vendor's file MUST contain
• Methods to balance the acceptance activities for low-, medium- and high-risk suppliers

Supplier contracts

• How to write contracts that make suppliers notify you of any design, product or process changes involving your supplied product or component
• Potential agreement pitfalls and how to avoid them

Auditing suppliers

• Working with and auditing uncooperative and overseas suppliers
• How to conduct a supplier audit and write effective audit observations

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