Purchasing Controls for Medical Devices

Course Description:

This webinar can help you understand your responsibilities in terms of Purchasing Controls enabling you to provide safe and effective products to your customers. Learn how to prevent quality and compliance problems by having a strong system for Purchasing Controls! This webinar will help you to understand the regulations and how you can translate them into an efficient and effective process for purchasing/ supplier control.

You'll learn about the essential elements of purchasing control and how you can translate them into your procedures. We'll discuss the process steps for purchasing control and how it relates to other parts of your QMS including receiving and acceptance activities.

Why should you attend?

Inadequate supplier/purchasing control can lead to a multitude of problems including rejections or delays at receiving inspection; non-conformances and scrap on your manufacturing lines; and quality problems that can manifest later in the field resulting in MDRs and recalls.

Purchasing Controls have received significant scrutiny from the FDA in recent years due to an increase in adverse events and recalls. Purchasing Controls continue to be a leading source of 483 and Warning Letter citations.

Areas covered:

This 90-minute webinar will focus on establishing an effective and efficient system of purchasing controls. Topics to be covered include:

• Understanding the regulations
• Lessons Learned
• FDA Expectations - Authority and Scope
• Purchasing Controls Process 1: Planning
  • Planning
  • Evaluation of Suppliers
  • Purchasing Data
  • Performance Management
  • Feedback and Communication
• Best Practices

Who will benefit?

         This webcast will be of a valuable assistance to the below audience.

• Supplier Engineers
• Supplier/Purchasing Managers
• Quality Engineers
• Supplier Quality Engineers
• Compliance Personnel
• Supplier Auditors
• Compliance Specialists

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