Note to our valued Suppliers, to:

• Submit any process, design, business changes, or deviations being considered by your company or on behalf of your suppliers/sub-tier suppliers in the Medtronic Supplier Change Request Portal.
• Allow Medtronic appropriate time to qualify and approve the change(s) prior to implementation.
• In the event that the supplier started building product with the new unqualified process prior to the relevant “Supplier Change Request” approval, this product cannot be shipped to Medtronic until the SCR is approved, or a written authorization is given to supplier to ship at risk by Medtronic supplier quality.

These reminders are per agreements between you and Medtronic, and nonconformances are subject to supplier control actions.