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Material Management
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Arena Solutions, Inc.
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Almost as soon as Excel superseded Multiplan, Microsoft’s first spreadsheet application, in 1987, manufacturers adapted it to organize their BOMs (bills of materials). More than 20 years later, it is safe to say that many managers still routinely fit their product information into Excel’s cells. And why not? Everyone loves Excel—it’s easy enough to use, everyone’s got it, and it came with your ...
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Arena Solutions, Inc.
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This whitepaper tells the story of a quick to react company that stumbled and fell because of its lax revision control processes and its poor communications both internally and externally with suppliers and contract manufacturers (CM). This paper also describes how a collaborative bill of materials (BOM) and change management system like Arena could have saved this company from an expensive ...
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Arena Solutions, Inc.
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Manufacturers of medical devices are among the most highly regulated and most thoroughly equipped companies. They invest enormous sums of capital in business, research and manufacturing assets ranging from clean rooms and data loggers to CAD software and programs for computational fluid dynamics. Yet even as medical device manufacturers leverage digitization for business and product development ...
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Arena Solutions, Inc.
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An FDA or ISO audit is a necessary and potentially difficult part of doing business for any medical device manufacturer. For startup medical device manufacturers the first audit of your processes can be as nerve-racking as the first time you defended your business plan before venture capitalists, submitted your first 510(k) application, or delivered your product to market. Maybe more so, because ...
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Verisae
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Supply Chain Emissions Management
The world’s largest retailer, Walmart, has really brought the issue of life-cycle analysis and supply-chain emissions tracking to the forefront. With much fanfare, Walmart announced during mid-July 2009 that it would be developing a “Sustainability Index” which would in no small way require its suppliers, all 100,000 of them, to measure sustainability as part ...
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