Medical Device Industry MD-NET Solution

• TENON’s commitment
• The issues customers face
• Key points in solving issues
• Overview of our service
• Uniqueness and advantages

TENON’s commitment

Tenon provides Medical Device Industry MD-NET Solution, an EDI application for linking the VAN services provided by @MD-Net to the enterprise business systems of medical device manufacturers.

The issues customers face

As companies from other industries increasingly enter the fields of advanced medical devices, in vitro diagnostic devices, and other therapeutic devices, the medical device market is expected to expand further.

The many products traded as medical devices include those related to therapy, treatment, diagnosis, ophthalmology, physiological functioning, and observation equipment. However, dealer transactions related to these products, consumables, and other supplies are, on the whole, handled in wide variety but small quantities. Types of transaction include not only purchase and sale transactions but also deposit transactions with medical institutions and short-term lending transactions adapted to patients and surgical procedures. The exchange of transaction information and inventory information calls for complex system linkages.

Key points in solving issues

Transaction information linkage platforms based on EDI between medical device manufacturers, dealers, and logistics companies are becoming an indispensable system element for supporting medical equipment distribution. In particular, EDI transaction linkages utilizing @MD-Net, the industry standard VAN, are used by a constantly increasing number of companies.

Medical device manufacturers are able to link data including ordering/delivery performance, shipping/shikiri information, usage reports, and resupply requests with dealers via @MD-Net, in a form consistent with their in-house SAP and other enterprise business system functions, and can exchange commercial transaction information.

Overview of our service

Our Medical Device Industry MD-NET Solution is a package solution that provides EDI application functions indispensable to linking the enterprise business systems (ERP) of medical device manufacturers to @MD-Net. For the application functions required for ERP by medical device manufacturers using SAP ERP, we separately provide our Medical device Sales Template (MST).

The primary functions of the Medical Device Industry MD-NET Solution are as follows.

Uniqueness and advantages

Our Medical Device Industry MD-NET Solution contributes to work efficiency, quality improvement, and cost reduction in customers’ @MD-Net-based EDI transaction information linkage through the following unique points and advantages.