Conference Description:

Supplier selection and management is one of the critical issues for medical device manufacturers. Suppliers provide materials and services to the device manufacturer, which means that they can be critical to performance and delivery of your device. Neither the FDA nor your notified body regulates your suppliers (with a few exceptions). They expect you to have an effective process to ensure your suppliers perform in the regulatory environment.

How well do you understand the requirements for supplier management?

Could you pass a regulatory audit or inspection without any issues?

This course delivers the tools, templates, and methods to help participants implement an effective and efficient supplier management program.

This two-day hands-on course provides a clear understanding of the underlying principles of supplier management. The course uses exercises to solidify understanding. In addition, the course uses FDA Warning Letters to illustrate the points and help you learn from others. As part of the practical implementation, the course includes receiving acceptance activities, outsourced processes, process validation at the suppliers' location, supplier auditing techniques, and supplier issues in management review.

The course uses the Global Harmonization Task Force (GHTF) framework, but expands it to cover other issues and techniques important in effective implementation.

Why should you attend:
Since FDA regulations do not allow them to audit your suppliers unless they make finished medical devices, they require that you have sufficient control over them. But from time to time the FDA makes a reinterpretation of what this means. This happened within the last f 5 years, so if you supplier management program is older than that, you need to make major changes in you supplier management program. This is why the Good Manufacturing Practice (aka Quality System Regulations) is called cGMP. The C stands for current, meaning what the FDA considers the current state of the art in the areas they regulate. Also European Notified Bodies also periodically update their expectations, and for suppliers this happened with the publication of a guidance document by the Notified Body Operations Group (NBOG).

This seminar will go into the details of the NBOG supplier guidance document and a GHTF (Global Harmonization Task Force) guidance that describes the current FDA expectation on supplier management.

One of the major things introduced in these guidance document, is the concept of Risk, and the use of identified risks as part of the evaluation and monitoring of suppliers.

This seminar will review requirements and expectation of the FDA and European Notified Bodies for supplier management, and then how to incorporate these into your own supplier management process.

Areas Covered in the Session:
Understand FDA QSR and ISO 13485 requirements for supplier management
Creating a Risk-based Multi-tier supplier classification system
Understand when suppliers have to register and list with the FDA
Defining and using supplier Metrics
Explain the link between design control and purchasing data
Develop an risk-based supplier management process
Incorporating supplier regulatory and safety risk
Incorporating supplier business risk
Create supplier measurement and monitoring systems
Understand the how to develop and implement supplier controls
Create a risk based Value-added system for supplier audits
How to prepare yourself and your contract manufacturer for unannounced audits from your Notified body
Creating acceptance criteria and understand how that fits into your supplier control process
Who will benefit:
Quality Managers
Quality Engineers
Audit Managers
Supplier Engineers
Internal quality auditors
Supplier auditors
Quality associates
Quality Specialists
Regulatory Compliance Managers

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