Coordination Tax Assessment

Where coordination tax is likelyhurting your company the most.

The cost of holding cross-functional work together when no system owns it end to end. Read cold from public data, then sharpened with your own numbers.

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Medical device makers

Coordination tax per employee

$16.5K to $24.8K a year

Low confidence: industry baseline only

  1. Quality and corrective action8/10
  2. Supplier and supply chain7/10
  3. Change and document control7/10
  4. Regulatory and audit exposure7/10
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Step 2 · Where it hurts

Where coordination tends to hurt.

What a manufacturer your size usually sees, until your own numbers replace it.

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The whole-company picture, across every function. Drop into the area you own, or open the leadership view for the business consequences.

Where it hurtsIntensityWhy, and what it could cost

Total coordination tax

$16.5K to $24.8K per employee a year

8/10High

The whole-company figure. The breakdown below shows which functions carry it; the leadership tab reframes it as business consequences.

Quality and corrective action

the heaviest single area

8/10High

CAPA closure, audit readiness, and recurrence absorb the most coordination of any function.

Supplier and supply chain

a major share

7/10Elevated

Qualification, supplier corrective actions, and continuity chased across the company boundary.

Change and document control

a major share

7/10Elevated

Multi-function approvals and record-keeping run in sequence across engineering, quality, and manufacturing.

Operations and the floor

holds and lost capacity

6/10Elevated

Production waits on cross-functional decisions; supervisor time goes to chasing and status.

Regulatory and audit exposure

findings recur when proof is rebuilt

7/10Elevated

Reconstruction-based audit prep keeps inspection risk concentrated and recurring.

Where it concentrates

Two themes carry half of it.

The mix for your industry, grouped into comparable themes with the domains inside each.

Medical devices

52%

of the tax sits in two themes: Controlled change & records, and Quality events & corrective action.

  1. Controlled change & records27%
    • Change control 15%
    • Document & records control 9%
    • Periodic review & data governance 3%
  2. Quality events & corrective action25%
    • Nonconformance & CAPA 19%
    • Post-market & recall 5%
    • Compliance 1%
  3. Supplier & supply chain19%
    • Supplier quality 13%
    • Supply chain & planning 4%
    • Procurement & sourcing 2%
  4. Regulatory & customer11%
    • Regulatory affairs 8%
    • Customer management 3%
  5. People & operations10%
    • Operations 6%
    • Training & competency 4%
  6. Product & systems8%
    • New product development 7%
    • System & data integration governance 1%
Step 3 · What it costs

$16.5K to $24.8K per employee, a year.

Unifize’s model for medical device makers, not a published statistic. Until we have your numbers, it is an estimate, not a measurement.

Per employee, medical device makers

$16.5K to $24.8K

a year, for each employee

Low confidence: industry baseline only.

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How it is built

Coordination share of headcount, weighted by time
12.08%
× Loaded cost of coordination time
$291.2K a year ($140/hr)
× Shadow coordination
+17.5%
× Confidence band, level 0
0.40 to 0.60
= a year, per employee
$16.5K to $24.8K

The same method Unifize uses with every account, so this number and the one in a conversation come from one engine. A conversation adds what public data cannot show.

One root cause underneath all of it. Your system of record stores what is officially true. The work that produces those records runs in email, meetings, and spreadsheets. The gap between the two is the tax, and it bites hardest around a trigger: an audit, a 483, a recall, a new quality leader, an acquisition.

Proof

Already being reduced.

“Tasks that have taken weeks or months are now completed in days.”
Tedd Carr, Director of Quality, The Will-Burt Company

75%

improvement in nonconformance closure time, first month

5 → 1

quality systems consolidated into one

In your industryRecovery Force, an FDA-regulated, ISO 13485 wearable device maker, runs CAPA, complaints, audits, and change control on Unifize through a 483 observation.

Step 4 · The full report

The full picture, and what to do about it.

This page is the cold read from public data. The full report confirms your numbers, then shows how you compare and how it gets reduced.

My personalized report
  1. 01

    Where you sit across every industry

    Medical devices against aerospace, pharma, automotive, and the rest.

  2. 02

    How you compare to your peers

    Once your numbers are confirmed, against the median and top quartile.

  3. 03

    Your tax from six angles

    By process, economic layer, waste type, team, site, and theme.

  4. 04

    A deep dive into your domain

    Quality, supplier quality, change control, or your area, broken into stages.

  5. 05

    How we assessed you

    Every signal we used, and where each one came from.

  6. 06

    How Unifize removes it

    The mechanism for each kind of waste, plus a CFO one-pager.

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