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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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1 Big Inventory Control Risk: Medical Device Shipments to the Field
Medical device shipments require extra management and communication to make sure they get where they are going. The stakes are high, because medical devices require special care and must arrive on time in order for the surgery to proceed. Medical device manufacturers must think about how to improve their inventory control operations and supply chains to manage shipments through to their destinations.
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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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Designing your Purchasing Process: 4 Critical Things to Consider
The purchasing process in medical device manufacturing defines how inventory is created, valued, and tracked. Explore how linking purchase orders, inventory management, and costing ensures compliance, reduces errors, and drives long-term operational success.
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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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Software Validation for SaaS Tools: Should You Revalidate?
SaaS platforms need different validation than on-premise software. What medical device teams should weigh before revalidating their SaaS tools.
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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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3 Ways You Can Supercharge Sales Operations with Artificial Intelligence Tools
Medical device sales operations teams can leverage AI automation to streamline their processes and improve overall efficiency. 3 ways medical device distributors and sales reps can use Artificial Intelligence tools are to facilitate lead prioritization and scoring, customer relationship management (CRM), and utilizing virtual assistants.
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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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