Healthcare & Life Sciences
In healthcare, an incomplete supplier record is a patient safety question.
Hospitals, distributors and life sciences companies onboard suppliers of medical devices, consumables, laboratory services and contract manufacturing. Product information and regulatory documentation must be right before items are used or sold.
Supplier relationships
Who you onboard, and what you need from them.
Typical suppliers and documentation in healthcare & life sciences. In Skuvet these become supplier categories with their own requirements.
Typical suppliers
- Medical device and consumable suppliers
- Contract manufacturers and laboratories
- Clinical and facilities service providers
- Distributors and wholesalers
Information and documents
- Regulatory registrations and declarations of conformity
- Quality certificates such as ISO 13485 where relevant
- Product specifications, labelling and safety information
- Insurance and company registration details
The challenge
What makes onboarding hard in healthcare & life sciences.
Regulatory documents go out of date
Certificates and declarations have expiry dates and revisions. A supplier record that is not monitored becomes a compliance gap.
Product attributes drive clinical systems
Incorrect units, pack sizes or identifiers flow into procurement and clinical systems and are expensive to correct later.
Multiple approvers, little visibility
Clinical, quality and procurement approvals happen in parallel, and nobody can see what is holding a supplier back.
How Skuvet applies
An example onboarding workflow.
An illustration of how a healthcare & life sciences organisation could configure Skuvet. Stages, checks and approvers are set to your own policies.
Suppliers provide company and site details and the categories they will supply.
Regulatory and quality documents are collected per category, with expiry dates tracked and surfaced before they lapse.
Product lines are validated against required attributes and identifiers before downstream use.
Quality and procurement decisions are recorded with the evidence behind them.
Products and catalogues
Product onboarding applies where suppliers provide catalogue data. Required attributes, identifiers and labelling information can be checked against your rules before items move downstream.
Product onboarding & readiness →
Skuvet is not a regulatory submission system and does not certify devices or suppliers.
Other industries
The same platform elsewhere.
Experience Skuvet
See how Skuvet would work for healthcare & life sciences.
Tell us about your suppliers, documents and systems. We will tailor the demonstration to your process.
