Meditech Surgical Case Analysis Paper Strategic Supply Chain Management Meditech is a leader in the endoscopic surgical instrument market. The company manufactures and market low cost endoscopy surgical equipment to hospitals and independent surgeons. The company’s distribution operation is arranged and managed from a central storage warehouse that ships its products to domestic and international affiliates. The organization have been experiencing a good customer service experience in the
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MBA OPERATIONS Meditech Surgical Case Group III Ankur Verma Arvinderpal Singh Balvinder Singh Bhavya Pabby Bhupesh Singh Bhupinder Kumar Jasdeep Bedi Ishwar Devgan Introduction Meditech is a leader in the endoscopic surgical instrument market. The company manufactures and market low cost endoscopy surgical equipment to hospitals and independent surgeons. The company’s distribution operation is arranged and managed from a central storage warehouse that ships its products to domestic
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SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT Final Examination QUESTION 1: Case Analysis: MEDITECH SURGICAL. 1. What are Meditech’s problems in introducing new products? In manufacturing ALL products? When Meditech introduces new products‚ the company’s output is exceeded by a higher demand‚ consequence of a great amount of initial orders from customers. As a result of this situation‚ the company faces shortage at the beginning of introduction‚ product cannot be delivered at the agreed time‚ back orders accumulate
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Meditech Surgical Case Paper ISCOM/476 Jesus Orozco University of Phoenix Kathryn Kendall April 18‚ 2011 . Introduction In order to identify possible issues that are interfering with Meditech’s ability to remain a leader in the endoscopic market‚ to understand clearly an analysis will be conducted to identify meditech’s problems in the introduction of new products‚ concerns in manufacturing‚ and all its products. The analysis will also observe how problems occur both systemically
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Case Study: Meditech Surgical Overview Endoscopic surgical instrument maker Parents company: Largo Healthcare Company Spunned off 3 years ago Primary competitor: National Medical Corporation Same Development Strategies but different Sales Strategies Continuous development of old products continually & increase new product introductions National sells to surgeons Meditech sells to material managers‚ hospital & surgeons Compete based on product innovations
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CASE: Meditech Surgical 1) What are Meditech’s problems in introducing new products? There is no historical data or forecast to base demand off of. It is impossible to decipher the amount of a product to produce with no calculations to base it on. This also creates scheduling problems on the assembly lines‚ which cause a backup for producing their current enhanced products. In manufacturing ALL products? They cannot continue to juggle the enhancement of current
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GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT Case Study: Meditech Surgical Agenda g Market d Company overview M k t and C i Problem analysis Main issues Suggested solutions Q&A 2 Market overview Invasive surgical trends I i i lt d Market created in early 80’s‚ rapidly growing and promising Old instruments gradually updated and replaced with introduction of new endoscopic ones ones. 3 Company overview p y Major key l M j / k player i endoscopic surgical i t in d i i l instrument t market
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Meditech now is the main company that captured a majority of the endoscopic surgical instrument market. It manufactures the low cost and good price endoscopy surgical equipment for their customers. The strategy of Meditech’s rapid product development is to introduce flawlessly to protect Meditech’s reputation and sales of other products. Actually‚ it consistently failed to keep up with demand during the flood of initial orders. Right now‚ the distribution operation of Meditech is sending products
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1. Meditech has plenty of inventory but their problem is the delivery process and lack of communications between the marketing department and supply chain. They’d push their products with aggressive sales‚ and then when it came down to it they couldn’t get the products delivered quickly and efficiently. The production line would get backed up because of the orders‚ causing old and current customers orders to be delayed. 2. There is a huge lack of communication and the panic ordering of customers
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Meditech Health Information Systems Kristy Trumble September 15‚ 2012 Table Of Contents Meditech……………………………………………………………………….2 Meditech Product Uses………………………………………………………2 Meditech Integration………………………………………………………….4 User Friendliness…………………………………………………………….5 Benefits………………………………………………………………………..6 Implementation Process……………………………………………………..7 Findings Analysis…………………………………………………………….8 Conclusion…………………………………………………………………….8 References…………………………………………………………………….10 Meditech “I
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