Third Party Factory and Supplier Audits
In today’s highly competitive market, it is imperative that you build a vendor base of partners that will meet all aspects of your production needs, from design and quality, to product delivery requirements. Comprehensive evaluation through factory audits and supplier audits are a vital component of the evaluation process.
The key criteria an TTS factory and supplier audit assesses are facilities, policies, procedures and records that verify a factory’s ability to deliver consistent quality products over time, rather than at one given time or only for certain products.
Major checkpoints of a supplier audit include:
Company legality information
Bank information
Human resource
Exportation capability
Order management
The standard factory audit includes:
Manufacturer’s background
Manpower
Production capability
Machine, facilities & equipment
Manufacturing process & production line
In-house quality system such as testing & inspection
Management system & capability
Environment
Our factory audits and supplier audits provide you with a detailed analysis of the condition, strengths and weaknesses of your supplier. This service can also help the factory to understand areas requiring improvement to better meet the buyer’s needs.
As you select new vendors, reduce the number of your vendors to more manageable levels and improve overall performance, our factory and supplier audit services provide an effective way to enhance that process at a reduced cost to you.
Professional and Experienced Auditors
Our auditors receive comprehensive training on auditing techniques, quality practices, report writing, and integrity and ethics. In addition, periodic training and testing is done to keep skills current to changing industry standards.
Strong Integrity & Ethics Program
With an industry recognized reputation for our strict ethical standards, we maintain an active training and integrity program that is managed by a dedicated integrity compliance team. This helps minimize the risk of corruption and helps educate auditors, factories and clients regarding our integrity policies, practices and expectations.
Best Practices
Our experience in providing supplier audits and factory audits in India and around the globe for a broad range of companies has allowed us to develop “best-in-class” factory audit and evaluation practices that can save you time and money in selecting factory and supplier partnerships.
This gives you the option of including additional value-added assessments that can benefit both you and your suppliers. Contact us to learn more.