Supplier Management for Medical Device Manufacturers: How to Meet FDA and ISO 13485 Notified Body Requirements Using Lean Principles

Supplier management - initial selection and ongoing assessment - is a critical issuesfor medical device manufacturers. Suppliers provide components and/or services to the legal manufacturer, which means they are critical to performance and delivery. 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.

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

Supplier Qualification
Supplier Qualification (cont)
Supplier Assessment
Supplier Assessment (cont)
Supplier Nonconformance
Supplier Nonconformance (cont)

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Speaker: Jeff Kasoff,

Jeff Kasoff, RAC, is the Director of Quality at Medivators, a leading manufacturer of endoscopy consumables and instrumentation. In this position, Jeff is responsible for oversight of the quality system, including the CAPA program, and is the liaison with FDA. For the previous 13 years, Jeff served as Director of Regulatory Affairs at Life-Tech, Inc., in which capacity he was similarly responsible for quality system oversight. Jeff began his regulatory career as the first full-time employee of Optex Biomedical, a device start-up, where he initiated their regulatory policies and procedures and prepared their submissions. Jeff received his Regulatory Affairs Certification in 1996.