Supply Chain Management as an Integral Aspect of Your Quality Management System
In a business climate where outsourcing vital activities is often the best decision for a manufacturer’s balance sheet, effective management of suppliers becomes a key factor in achieving high product quality in conjunction with optimal profits. Planning becomes paramount in ensuring that the right products and services are outsourced, and the appropriate ones are handled in-house. Choosing capable suppliers and managing their activities is an on-going risk management exercise. Without established processes, these activities could consume infinite resources. In addition, regulatory entities are placing increased emphasis on effective control of purchased products and services and as the manufacturer, you bear the ultimate responsibility for product quality.
To address the industry’s needs for on-going, up-to-the-minute education on purchasing controls, acceptance activities, and conforming, effective Quality Management Systems (QMS), AAMI developed a webinar on Supply Chain Management as an Integral Aspect of Your Quality Management System.
Program content includes a brief overview of the six key supplier control phases defined in the Global Harmonization Task Force’s Guidance on the Control of Products and Services Obtained from Suppliers. The webinar also:
- Identifies linkages between the six supplier control phases and medical device regulatory requirements
- Focuses on planning aspects to enhance supplier selection and evaluation
- Highlights opportunities to use existing aspects of your QMS to support supply chain management
- Examines how existing risk management processes can support and enhance supplier selection, evaluation, control, and monitoring
Don’t miss out on this exciting educational opportunity on CD to learn more about how to create an effective model for supply chain management within your existing QMS!
PROGRAM OBJECTIVES
The webinar demonstrates how your current QMS can support effective supplier quality management techniques. Speakers identify opportunities to use your existing QMS controls specifically to address supplier quality problems, and show how your risk management process facilitates decision-making for supplier controls. At the conclusion of the program, you will have a better understanding of how your existing QMS controls can ensure the best opportunity for receiving high quality products or services from suppliers.
PROGRAM-AT-A-GLANCE
- Introduction: Supply Chain Management As An Integral Aspect of Your QMS
- Suppliers and the Supply Chain
- Managing the Supply Chain: Six Key Supplier Control Phases
- How a QMS Supports Each Phase
- A Focus on Planning
- Supplier Quality Management Principles in the QMS
- Handling Expected Problems and Surprises
- When Risk Management Enhances Decision-Making
- Planning for Success in the Supply Chain
- Supplier Selection and Evaluation
- Supplier Controls
- Monitoring Supplier Performance
- Integration of Supply Chain Management and QMS Activities
- Question and Answer Session
SPEAKERS
- Tammy M. Pelnik, President, The St. Vrain Group, Inc.
- Michael Hoffman, Vice President of Regulatory Affairs and Quality Systems, Medicis Technologies Corporation
WHO SHOULD PURCHASE
This webinar is designed for Quality Management System, Purchasing, and Supply Chain Management professionals. These individuals may represent medical device manufacturers, consulting businesses, European notified bodies and conformity assessment bodies, FDA, and other organizations that require information on effective implementation of supplier quality management methods used to meet regulatory requirements such as FDA's Quality System regulation, ISO 13485:2003, and GHTF’s guidance on outsourced products and services.
WEBINAR CD - Includes pdf of handout materials and webinar recording on CD.
- $295 for webinar registrants
- $395 for non-registrants
- Please note: Domestic and international shipping rates apply.
THREE WAYS TO PURCHASE
- Phone - - 1-877-249-8226 / 240-646-7031 to order with credit card.
- Fax - Select and download the order form and fax to 240-396-5781 .
Mail - Select and download the order form and mail with payment to:
AAMI - Webinar CD - Supply Change Management
PO Box 0211
Annapolis Junction, MD 20701-0211
QUESTIONS?
For questions about ordering the CD, please contact AAMI Publications at 1-877-249-8226 / 240-646-7031.