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The world’s leading medical device companies are locked in a relentless pursuit of growth. Yet for many, that ambition is quietly undermined by a persistent, structural villain hiding in plain sight.
Inescapable Waste—embedded in daily operations across warehouses, hospitals, and trunk stock locations worldwide. Fueled by fragmented systems, manual processes, and visibility gaps that make scaling impossible.
Left unchecked, Inescapable Waste compounds with every new market, every new product line, and every added layer of complexity—silently eroding margin, slowing execution, and limiting global potential.
Legacy ERPs and regional tools were never designed to manage the complexity of global field inventory. They were built for static environments—not for dynamic, distributed operations spanning thousands of assets, users, and locations. Today’s MedTech organizations need more than patches and workarounds. They need a foundation engineered to stop waste at the source. They need a Unified Platform.
Break the Silos: One Platform, Every Territory, One Truth
Movemedical was purpose-built to Reset The Standard™ for field inventory automation. For global MedTech companies, this starts by replacing a maze of regional, department-specific tools—often homegrown, expensive to maintain, and heavily reliant on spreadsheets and disconnected databases—with a single, connected platform built for the full medical device lifecycle.
This is not about deploying the same software in different languages. It’s about creating one source of truth for your most critical assets and workflows—across every geography and business unit. Whether teams operate in EMEA, APAC, or the Americas, they work from the same data, follow the same standards, and align to the same objectives.
That alignment matters. It’s what enables consistent execution, regulatory compliance, and service delivery at global scale—without adding operational drag.
Deep ERP Integration: Automation That Skips the Slowdowns
Integration is often reduced to basic data syncing. Movemedical takes a fundamentally different approach.
We deliver deep ERP integrations with systems like SAP and Oracle that automate real workflows—not just transactions. Inventory in the field is continuously reconciled against ERP records. Consignment adjustments happen automatically. Usage capture and billing workflows are triggered and completed without manual intervention.
The result is data integrity across systems and a sharp reduction in E&O (excess and obsolescence). Manual reconciliation—still cited by nearly half of operations teams as the biggest barrier to efficient restocking—is systematically removed from the process.
In fact, according to Movemedical’s 2025 Sales & Operations Field Excellence Benchmark Report, up to 50% of respondents reported a reduction in manual inventory work after adopting Movemedical—freeing teams to focus on higher-value execution instead of cleanup.
Automation isn’t a luxury. It doesn’t just save time—it removes risk and enables scale without adding headcount.
True Visibility: Ending the Guesswork That Drives Waste
If you can’t see it, you can’t manage it—and in MedTech, that gap is expensive.
A case is scheduled for tomorrow. The rep assumes the loaner set is available. Operations believes it was returned last week. The system shows it in transit. In reality, it’s incomplete—or already expired. The scramble begins. Extra inventory ships overnight. Another kit is added “just in case.”
Then the questions start—the same ones we see field teams ask and struggle with every day:
Where is the high-demand loaner set? Is that kit expired? Does the rep actually have what they need for tomorrow’s case?
This guessing game isn’t rare—it’s systemic, and it’s precisely the root cause of overstocking and costly obsolescence.
55% of sales reps cite missing or delayed inventory as the leading cause of surgical case delays, making it the most consistent disruptor of care delivery. Nearly 40% of operations teams experience inventory shortages every week, not quarterly or annually—weekly.
When visibility breaks down, organizations compensate by overstocking. Inventory grows to mask uncertainty. Expirations rise. Capital sits idle in the field.
Movemedical replaces that uncertainty with true, item-level inventory visibility across every implant, instrument, and asset—globally. Leaders know what they have, where it is, its condition, its expiration status, and how likely it is to be used—before the next case is scheduled.
That visibility changes outcomes. 81% of operations teams report improved data-driven inventory decisions after adopting Movemedical, validating that visibility—not more inventory—is what reduces waste at scale.
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See the data behind the waste.
Explore real benchmarks from sales and operations teams across North America, EMEA, and APAC in the 2025 MedTech Field Inventory Excellence Report:
https://discover.movemedical.com/field-inventory-excellence-report
Empowering the Rep: Less Admin, More Execution
For decades, field inventory management has pushed administrative burden onto sales reps—logging transfers, tracking trays, and chasing updates instead of supporting surgeons and patients.
Disconnected tools make this worse.
Movemedical flips that dynamic. Our mobile-native platform streamlines case management, simplifies usage capture, and automates ordering—removing friction from the rep’s day. As a result, nearly 75% of users report saving at least three hours per week, with 39% saving more than six hours previously lost to manual follow-up and coordination.
That ease of use drives adoption—and adoption builds trust. Sales trusts the platform. Operations trusts the data. Policing gives way to partnership. Inventory decisions become proactive, not reactive. And revenue teams can focus on growth with confidence that inventory is accurate and available.
The Mandate for Growth
The global MedTech landscape demands efficiency, compliance, and scalable execution. Waste created by fragmentation is no longer acceptable.
By unifying operations on Movemedical, leveraging deep ERP automation, and unlocking true visibility, organizations achieve a clear outcome: less waste, fewer errors, and a stronger partnership between the field and the back office.
This is how the standard is reset—and how leading MedTech companies unlock their full global potential.
Let’s Continue the Conversation
The decision is no longer whether waste exists—it’s whether you’re ready to eliminate it.
Movemedical is the unified platform purpose-built to stop it. Reset the Standard™—and see exactly how much waste you can remove.
Request a Strategic Inventory Assessment to quantify inescapable waste, identify immediate pull-back opportunities, and establish a long-term partnership for global standardization.
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