Supplier & Supply Chain Audits
Reduce Supply Chain Risk Through Independent Evaluation
Make better decisions, track trends, and drive improvements in your supply chain.
Your management system doesn’t stop at your facility
Suppliers, subcontractors, outsourced processes, and other external providers can directly affect the quality, conformity, reliability, and performance of your products and services.
QSI provides supplier and supply-chain audits to help organizations evaluate external providers and identify potential risks before they become larger problems.
Supplier Management System Audits
QSI can evaluate suppliers against applicable management-system requirements, including:
- ISO 9001
- API Spec Q1
- API Spec Q2
- Customer-specific requirements
- Industry standards
- Contractual requirements
Technical Supplier Audits
Some suppliers require more than a traditional quality-system audit.
QSI can incorporate technical requirements into supplier assessments for processes such as:
- Nondestructive examination
- Heat treatment
- Welding
- Coating and plating
- Calibration
- Chemical analysis
- Mechanical testing
- Machining
- Other specialized processes
Contractual & Regulatory Compliance
Supplier audits can also evaluate conformity to:
- Purchase-order requirements
- Contract requirements
- Customer specifications
- Statutory requirements
- Regulatory requirements
- Industry codes and standards
- Project-specific requirements
Risk-Based Supplier Evaluation
Not every supplier presents the same level of risk
QSI can help organizations focus auditing resources where they are most needed by considering factors such as:
- Product or service criticality
- Supplier performance
- Process complexity
- Previous audit results
- Nonconformances
- Customer requirements
- Regulatory requirements
- Outsourced processes
Supply Chain Visibility
Supplier auditing can provide management with information that may not be visible through normal supplier-performance metrics.
Audits can identify:
- Process weaknesses
- Inconsistent implementation
- Documentation gaps
- Technical risks
- Control weaknesses
- Recurring problems
- Opportunities for improvement