Dear Cove,
I posted on here a few weeks ago regarding an issue we are having on the issue of own brand lable agreements. To explain the issue we have a company assembling componets - one being a lancet. This lancet is CE marked by the manufacturer. In the last post i was asking regarding the OBL with the manufacturer. The issue we are having is due to the volume of these goods we purchase which is low, the manufacturer will not sign a direct agreement with us as we don't purchase the lancets directly but through the assemble compnay, we have even tried to buy them direct but the numbers that we purchase buy this company is "not sufficent". Now the lancets we purchase are CE marked for bulk purchase and we piggy back our CE mark due to the manufacturing having CE certification for this product.
Getting to the point the assembly company now has a distribution aggrement in place with the lancet manufacturer for which I have seen and it covers all aspects of the OBL you would wish for. My question is then if an agreement was in place between the distributor rather than the manufacturer and ourselves would this suffice?
Our Audiors disagree, however in most cases you do not directly talk to the manufacturere of goods but a distributor.
Can anybody help
Thank you
Peter
I posted on here a few weeks ago regarding an issue we are having on the issue of own brand lable agreements. To explain the issue we have a company assembling componets - one being a lancet. This lancet is CE marked by the manufacturer. In the last post i was asking regarding the OBL with the manufacturer. The issue we are having is due to the volume of these goods we purchase which is low, the manufacturer will not sign a direct agreement with us as we don't purchase the lancets directly but through the assemble compnay, we have even tried to buy them direct but the numbers that we purchase buy this company is "not sufficent". Now the lancets we purchase are CE marked for bulk purchase and we piggy back our CE mark due to the manufacturing having CE certification for this product.
Getting to the point the assembly company now has a distribution aggrement in place with the lancet manufacturer for which I have seen and it covers all aspects of the OBL you would wish for. My question is then if an agreement was in place between the distributor rather than the manufacturer and ourselves would this suffice?
Our Audiors disagree, however in most cases you do not directly talk to the manufacturere of goods but a distributor.
Can anybody help
Thank you
Peter