Improved Supply Chain Execution In Medical Device Manufacturing

Kanban is a type of scheduling system that can be used to help a manufacturer determine what to produce, when to produce it, and how much to produce for their customers and supply chain partners. This case study explains how a major medical device manufacturer transitioned from a traditional paper-based manual kanban system to a cloud-based ekanban system for the lean manufacturing of high quality, defect free, and low cost intravenous (IV) infusion, medication and supply dispensing, respiratory care, infection prevention, and surgical instruments.

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• How they improved responsiveness to customer demand, improved on-time delivery (OTD) performance, eliminated stock-outs, increased productivity and process agility, and reduced raw, WIP, and FG inventories for the various medical devices that they offer by employing Ultriva’s Collaborative Supply Portal (CSP) ekanban solution.  
• If your organization can adopt the same system for use in the product design and development or the logistics phase of your medical device.