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Proactively Managing Purchasing Controls for Medical Device Companies

 
  March 02, 2016  
     
 
CfPA-The Center for Professional Advancement, Chicago, IL
August 24, 2016


Who Should Attend?
This one-day course is designed for those who perform, supervise, manage, audit, or oversee purchasing controls activities for medical device companies. This includes, but is not limited to, professionals in:

  • Supplier Quality
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Supplier Quality Assurance
  • Current suppliers (for both products and services)
  • Those wishing to become suppliers to medical device companies

Course Description
This intensive, one-day course provides comprehensive and up-to-date knowledge of purchasing controls for quality assurance and control of purchased components, services, or finished medical devices. The course covers regulatory expectations regarding purchasing controls as contained in U.S. and International regulations and guidelines. The Global Harmonization Task Force (GHTF) guideline GHTF/ SG3/N17:2008–Quality management system–Medical devices–Guidance on the control of products and services obtained from suppliers. This course will prepare attendees to effectively manage the Purchasing Controls process.
 
 
Organized by: CfPA-The Center for Professional Advancement
Invited Speakers:
John Freije; President and Principal Consultant, Freije Quality Engineering, LLC

John Freije is the Principal Consultant and owner of Freije Quality Engineering, LLC, which he started in 2007. In this capacity he works with medical device companies and suppliers to medical device companies to develop and implement Quality Systems exceeding the expectation of ISO 13485 and FDA’s Quality System Regulation 21 CFR 820.

Mr. Freije has been in the work force over 34 years with over 23 years in the medical device and pharmaceutical industries with a primary focus of supplier development. Experience includes support of quality systems and various product lines at Roche Diagnostics, projects for the Special Forces and Direct Fire Control at Raytheon Technical Services Company, various Engineering and Quality positions with increasing responsibilities at Eli Lilly and Company supporting medical device commercialization, quality, and manufacturing. Honorably discharged at the rank of Staff Sergeant (E-6) after serving eight years in the US Army as a Field Artillery Systems Mechanic.

Mr. Freije received his MSE from the University of Wisconsin and completed his undergraduate studies at Purdue University. He is a senior member of the American Society for Quality (ASQ) where he is the 2016 Biomedical Division Chair. Mr. Freije is also an ASQ Certified Quality Engineer, a SME Certified Manufacturing Technologist, and the co-author of Proactive Supplier Management in the Medical Device Industry.

 


 
Deadline for Abstracts: n/a
 
Registration: Please click here for registration information.
E-mail: jmorbit@cfpa.com
 
   
 
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