Resources
Calculators, papers, templates, and guides to strengthen your vendor oversight, risk management, and quality compliance in clinical trials.
Interactive calculators
2Cost of Vendor Quality
Estimate the annual cost of vendor-related quality issues (investigations, CAPAs and remediation) across your trial portfolio.
Open CalculatorVendor Management Cost
Estimate the financial impact of vendor management inefficiencies in your organisation, and see where improvements pay back fastest.
Open CalculatorPapers & guides
910 Top Tips for Vendor Risk Assessment
Ten changes you can make to your vendor risk assessments straight away.
Analysis: Service Provider Management in ICH E6(R3)
How to implement the ICH E6(R3) service provider management requirements.
Critical to Quality Factor Identification Guide
Simplify CTQF identification and speed up risk-based quality management processes.
Integration Guide for Software Selection
What to check before you bring new software into a GxP environment.
Key Challenges of Clinical Trial Vendor Management
What peers in Clinical Operations, Quality, executive roles and former inspectors told us about vendor management.
TMF Retrieval Guide for Sponsors
How to get a complete TMF back from your CRO at the end of a study.
Vendor Management and Oversight Assessment
See how your current process measures up and where it needs work.
Vendor Management and Oversight — Analogies, Context and Discussion
Tom talks about Vendor Management and what we can learn from the Sydney Opera House.
Why Vendor Management and Oversight Matter More Than You Think
The challenges and best practices of clinical trial vendor management, from selection to KPIs.
Tools & templates
4QMS Vendor Management SOP Checklist
The SOPs a vendor management process needs, as a checklist.
Vendor Communication Plan Template
A ready-to-use plan for how you communicate with each vendor, which you can compare against what you do today.
Vendor Risk Categories Cheat Sheet
Learn the difference between complementary and unique risks of vendors, and how they apply to your vendor categories.
Vendor Risk Management Checklist
Check your vendor risk management process step by step.