In the highly unregulated and interconnected business of trading and manufacturing in Asia, it is often difficult to determine who is actually manufacturing your product and where it is coming from. Certain basic facts about potential vendors are vital to successfully doing business in the region. Thus, a key factor in achieving your business goals is to identify and engage with vendors that are able to meet your production and quality requirements, while maintaining acceptable levels of social responsibility in a growing socially aware environment. An audit confirms that your factory is legitimate before placing an order.
Our vendor audit process will help you to match production capability, performance, and professionalism with your expectations and requirements. This requires an in-depth assessment of various criteria including policies and management procedures that demonstrate the vendor’s ability to actually deliver.
The factory audit is ideally conducted before your order is placed. By checking the manufacturer's legal license, production capacities and capabilities, quality assurance (QA & QC) system, typical performance, the factory audit can provide you with the information to help you more accurately evaluate the overall performance of the manufacturer, with minimum risk before your order is placed.
in 2017 40% of factories in China have been at least temporarily shuttered
China’s Ministry of Environment has, over the last year, dispatched inspectors to 30 provinces in the sprawling nation to fine, reprimand or charge officials at more than 80,000 factories.
We can help you:
Check if the supplier is a real company. Are they fully-licensed and experienced in the desired product categories? Who really owns the operation? Are payments to this supplier safe? Are the documents and certificates provided authentic and valid?
Ensure your products meet all applicable standards and regulations: we help you design a supply chain solution that covers all applicable laws, regulations, industry norms and other stakeholder expectations. This ensures that your products have been produced in decent working conditions without exploiting the people who made them, and that they do not present a serious risk to the health and safety of consumers and environment.
Minimize risk at the earliest stage: our factory assessment services can help you identify potential risks and find solutions to resolve them.
Improve efficiency and performance in the supply chain: influencing the management processes, our factory audit services can help improve the efficiency and productivity of a factory.
Strengthen corporate reputation: factory audits help you demonstrate your commitment to sustainability which will in turn, help strengthen your company’s reputation in the market.
Become a more sustainable organization: we continuously strive to develop new services to help you meet the challenges of achieving business excellence in sustainability issues. We help you create long-term value for stakeholders and become a more sustainable organization.
