he challenge of finding reliable and high- quality suppliers has the potential to be a headache for all medical manufacturers. Identifying companies that can guarantee standards that meet their requirements is an essential element of any OEM’s procurement strategy. Failing to do
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There’s always a risk to using a new contract manufacturing partner. While regulations exist to prevent poor quality products from entering the market, time and cost constraints mean audits are geared towards evaluating many processes quickly, rather than studying each in depth. MedAccred sought to change that by agreeing a set of standards for companies across the supply chain to meet. David Callaghan learns more about MedAccred from Dannette Crooms, vice-president of supplier quality at Edwards Lifesciences and Didier Hayem, supplier quality chapter lead for diagnostics operations quality at Roche.
this effectively can land a company in trouble with regulatory bodies, which insist on seeing evidence in a contract to support proper quality control. How can identifying the best partners to work with be achieved in the most effective and efficient way? That’s where MedAccred comes in.