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You Need 1 Centralized System: What to do if you have too many tools and hate using them.
You know it, I know it, the companies that make your tools know it. The only solution is to consolidate into one centralized system. Cut the fluff; just the best tools stay, right? Well unfortunately for most people selling medical devices, there are tools that you don’t have the luxury of ditching. So how can you consolidate?
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Spend some QUALITY time together this Thanksgiving
The quality department in a medical device company plays a critical role in ensuring products meet regulatory requirements, safety standards, and customer expectations. This often means managing some uncomfortable situations, such as product issues or failures. While sales and distributors are not typically interacting directly with the quality department, that doesn’t mean that they do not impact each other. So we decided to talk to some Quality managers to get an idea of how the field team might make their lives easier.
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Linkages: Connecting operational improvement to business value
Discover how mapping connections across your value chain reveals hidden risks and opportunities for operational improvement. Learn why investing in better processes, practices, and tools drives efficiency, boosts compliance, and strengthens long-term business growth.
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AI Implementation Warning: 3 Critical Questions You Can’t Afford to Ignore
An AI implementation is no joke – answer these critical questions to avoid costly mistakes
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What happens to the supply chain when shipping costs rise? Act now to prepare for the risk.
A constricted supply chain represents risks to the medical device industry. Rising shipping costs will have ranging impacts on production costs, margins, and supply chain flexibility. Companies will need to adapt to mitigate impacts to the business until balance is restored.
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Ordering Process Inefficiencies and Their True Cost to Your Business: 5 Ways to Do Better
The business impacts of an inefficient ordering process are broader than just lost sales. in this article we investigate the true range of externalities caused when there is a breakdown in the supply chain for medical devices for a surgery.
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Medtech Industry Revolution: How Digital Twins Unlock Game-Changing Insights
Digital twins are a best practice in the medtech industry to support streamlined operations and supply chain savings.
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AI for Sales Advantage: Unlock Faster Wins and Bigger Deals in Medical Device Sales
Over the next several weeks we’re going to take a look at the medical device industry and start to unpack how to utilize AI for sales. Specifically, we’re going to look at the role of AI in medical device sales. For years there has been concern that the role of medical device sales reps and distributors will shrink or disappear as a result of new technologies, pricing and cost concerns, and a shifting regulatory landscape. That hasn’t materialized and we’re not convinced it will; at least not in the way many predicted a decade ago. In fact, we think AI will do a lot to empower and grow medical device sales if employed appropriately where it matters.
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Medical Device Software Shouldn’t Be Complicated: Discover a Powerful Alternative
The image shows complex devices with an ad overlay “we believe great software is never complicated” because medical device software should be easy to use and improve your life
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Get Better Inventory Management: Great People Need Great Tools
You need better inventory management, and that starts with your tools. Your team is great – don’t great people deserve great tools?
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Best Inventory Software Advantage: A Flexible Tool That Works the Way You Do
You have to wear a lot of hats, the best inventory software will give you the flexibility to do everything you need to do while streamlining workflows and expanding your capability.
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Get the Best Inventory App Today: Why we decided to publish our pricing
Your inventory app must deliver on its value and promise of ROI. The best inventory app will be transparent and give you all of the info you need to make a purchasing decision, no smoke and mirrors. Try Beacon today!
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Business Ops Advantage: 6 Key AI Questions to Answer
AI and the Future of Business Ops There’s been a lot of chatter about artificial intelligence (AI) over the past several months. Specifically, generative AI; and even more specifically, ChatGPT. In fact, if you’re even a little bit curious, there’s a reasonable chance you grabbed an OpenAI account and have been taking ChatGPT for a […]
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