Factory Audits & Consultancy
Often Affected by the term – Over Promise & Under delivery from your suppliers? The Solution is here!
Our auditors at CPEC Global perform audits as Third Party for your New/Existing suppliers. We assess their systems, capacity, workplace environment, or capabilities to ensure they meet your requirements as a buyer.
Auditing Types:
- #1 Capability audits — to help verify whether the factory can manufacture your product within the set timelines.
- #2 Quality audits — to measure whether the supplier has an effective quality management system in place (Based on ISO9001 standards).
- #3 Security audits — to ensure parts compliance with Customs program of a selective country.
- #4 Social compliance audits — to assess working conditions and ensure no human rights violations occur, such as child labour, etc., (Based on the SA8000 standard).
- #5 Environmental audits —to verify whether the factory complies with environmental standards and requirements.
Why Factory audits are necessary:
- On paper, that supplier may seem to meet your requirements for production, quality, and delivery. But when the plan is not integrated with the factory, they may not able to comply OTD & Quality.
- When you are considering a new supplier, it is essential to verify them as thoroughly as possible. Imagine you place your first order with a factory that seems to check all the boxes. But, down the road, you end up with an endless stream of headaches due to excessive product defects.
- Even if you’ve already been working with a manufacturer successfully, they should continue to produce high-quality products over time. But many importers working with low-cost country manufacturers have seen their quality start to slip after a couple of years despite a solid start to the relationship.
CPEC Auditors are authorized to perform below audits & certifications as per standards or with given documents,
- Vendor Access Management Audit
- Auditing Major Project Operations
- Customer Audit Support – as per OEM Supplier audit criteria / checklist
- Second Party Audit and Consultancy service
- ISO 27001 (ISMS) Information Security Management Systems
- Process Audit
- Product Audit
- Process Improvement
Factory Audit
Ensuring whether a supplier can operate efficiently, and support continuous improvement, meet out delivery lead times and more concentration on the quality process we conduct process surveys and assessments in factory.
- VAM Audit : Capability and Qualification
Our engineers survey potential of new suppliers on- site and provide detailed reports on the general operations, quality systems, qualifications and capabilities of the supplier as a viable source. - Supplier Process Control and Quality System
QC’s supplier audits evaluate all manufacturing process control systems for existing or new suppliers. Each audit report covers several areas, including evaluations of management, quality control methods, non-conforming materials, corrective action, and inspection and test equipment. - ISO 9001, ISO 13485, ISO 14000, TS 16949 & GMP
We offer factory audits using the ISO 9001, IATF, ISO 13485, ISO 14000, TS 16949 & GMP and/or the ISO 14000 environmental standard. Our auditors from ENN Consultancy conduct preliminary and/or final audits at supplier facility to ensure continuous improvement goals are being identified and achieved.
Packing & Loading Supervision
It aims to see what goods are loaded, in what quantities and under what conditions. Sometimes problems and troubles don’t come from the production process, but from logistics and shipping. When the production is perfect but the loading is incorrect and destroys your product, the result is the same: the goods are not consumable. Errors can be caused by improper loading due to carelessness of the manufacturer, but also by the freight forwarder carrying an unsuitable container. For example, if the container leaks or has a bad smell, the manufacturer will not be responsible for it, but in most cases the freight forwarder will not be responsible for that
either. Based on this, testing your container on load is essential to see where potential errors could be coming from.
Our container handling monitoring report(Only if requested) can help you to claim the loading error. Container handling will usually take place at the manufacturer’s
premises
