Supplier Evaluation Auditing

Do you have concerns about a supplier? Supplier Evaluation Auditing is an important part of your due diligence. Should you conduct a formal audit on them prior to adding them to your approved vendor list?

If your business uses services and products from suppliers to fulfill contracts, Streamline can perform a supplier audit to ensure that they are in compliance with your requirements and their operations aren’t going to jeopardise your business.

Our Certified Lead Auditors will work with your organisation to develop a supplier audit program, utilising criteria based on your inputs, Management System Standards clause requirements and regulatory requirements.

Our Supplier Evaluation Auditing services will mean your organisation will:

• Gain benefits of professional and experienced Certified Lead auditors
• Reduce auditing training and logistical costs
• Allow employees to focus on their core jobs

What you get

• Audit criteria agreed with you, drawn from your contract and specifications, the relevant ISO standard and the regulations that apply.
• A remote or on-site audit of the supplier by an experienced ISO Lead Auditor.
• A written report with each finding graded and the objective evidence behind it.
• A clear recommendation (approve, approve with conditions, or do not approve) to support your own decision.
• Verification of the supplier’s corrective actions afterwards, if you want it.

How it works

• We agree the scope, the criteria and how the result will feed your approved supplier list.
• You let the supplier know an audit is coming and arrange access.
• We carry out the audit, then report to you, not to the supplier, unless you ask us to share it.

What we need from you

• Your requirements: the contract, specifications and any flow-down obligations.
• Access to the supplier, arranged through your relationship with them.
• The final approval decision, which stays with you.

What it does not include

• Product testing, inspection or laboratory analysis.
• Legal review of supply contracts.

For the standards behind supplier control, see our guide to ISO 9001 clause 8.4 and ISO 45001 clause 8.1.4, and for information security suppliers, why a supplier breach is still your notification.

Benefits to be gained from auditing suppliers:

• Ensure suppliers are fulfilling the requirements of management system standards
• Provide confidence in supplier products, parts or services
• Identification of opportunities for improvement
• Reduced downtime due to poor supplier products
• Demonstration of Due Diligence and a proactive position towards Supplier Management

Streamline’s Supplier Evaluation Auditing service allows your business to make informed decisions on the capabilities of your suppliers and contractors.

We look forward to hearing from you and answering any questions you may have.

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