This is really a good question. Sometimes, we are looking at the portfolio of some companies and ask "How many products on this portfolio are sold in less than 5 units per year" One company with 1200 references showed me an excel sheet with 500 references that are available but with really low volume of sales. This cost stock, regulatory update work, continuous improvement... So let's talk with Alexandros Saavidis about Discontinuation and I hope this will convince you to embrace this practice.

Who is Alexandros Savvidis?

Alexandros Savvidis is a Senior Medical Device Specialist active for more than 17 years in multiple areas including Regulatory Affairs, Quality Management, R&D, Sales, Technical Support & Analysis. After his studies in Biomedical Engineering, he has worked in the medical devices as also the pharma packaging industry across Europe in Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands, UK, and Greece. He has organized and contributed as an RA Specialist to various successful international certifications of medical devices of all classes. Alexandros has gained one overall experience and deep understanding through his various roles in the full norm compliant development and certification process, like many other aspects like GMP, quality, risk management, vigilance, or clinical evaluations. He has worked on small, middle-size companies alone or as a team member, or even on cross-functional teams of Life Science Giants. In the last years, his main focus is the implementation of MDR requirements and updates

Who is Monir El Azzouzi?

Monir El Azzouzi is a Medical Device Expert specializing in Quality and Regulatory Affairs. After working for many years with big Healthcare companies and particularly Johnson and Johnson, he decided to create EasyMedicalDevice.com to help people have a better understanding of the Medical Device Regulations all over the world. He now created the consulting firm Easy Medical Device GmbH and developed many ways to deliver knowledge through videos, podcasts, online courses...

Links

• ■ Discontinuation process Download: https://mailchi.mp/easymedicaldevice/discontinuation

Social Media to follow

• Monir El Azzouzi Linkedin: https://linkedin.com/in/melazzouzi