INTRODUCTION

Finding suppliers that operate at consistent levels of high quality is necessary to ensure that your own organization can perform at an equally high level. An effective audit is one of the most important methods for ensuring that your suppliers are always complying and conforming to set standards and requirements.

This course will show you how supplier audits enable your organization to reduce risks and build and maintain a robust management system, so you can continuously improve your contractual requirements and relationships with suppliers.

Course Objectives 

• Verify the conformity and effectiveness of your supplier’s system
• Plan, prepare, conduct, report and follow up audit findings to ensure requirements between you and your suppliers have been met
• Use a process-based approach for auditing suppliers 
• Report on areas requiring improvements or changes to ensure processes remain valid and suitable at all times