Strategic drivers of contract manufacturing: Part II, the practice: forty medical device...

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Part I of this article examined the incentives for medical device and diagnostics manufacturers (primaries) to hire contract manufacturers (CMs) to produce sterile medical device disposable components. (1) Best practices for building successful outsourcing relationships were also outlined. Contract manufacturing is defined as hiring an external company to manufacture products or subassemblies for a primary. The product bears the primary's brand name and is sold through the primary's sales channels. Part II reports the results of a recent survey of mor