STRAUMANN GROUP
Managing risk through relationships Straumann is a premium brand that prides itself on never sacrificing quality. For this reason, their approach to balancing cost and risk mitigating is critical to procurement.
“ Straumann is a premium brand,” Sandra explains.“ We will never sacrifice quality.
“ At the same time, we’ re in a heavily regulated industry where meeting those expectations and managing cost is important.”
Straumann’ s approach to this is stringent collaboration with its long-term partners to comply with regulatory expectations.
“ The quality that comes from them directly impacts our product,” Sandra explains.
“ The fact that we’ ve partnered with them for so long means they understand what our requirements are.
“ They understand what the industry that we work in requires.
“ Based on that long-term partnership, our approach is not always about tough negotiations based on price and more about collaboration to eliminate additional costs from our operations while making mutual concessions where needed to drive more value all round.
“ We’ re asking, together, how we can refine our shared processes to eliminate operational costs and operate more efficiently.”
Sandra explains with this understanding of industry and regulatory requirements,
88 May 2025