Supplier audits

The assessment approach "supplier audit" has gained massively in importance because, with globalization, companies are outsourcing important components of their value chain to an ever greater extent. As a consequence, the management of supplier relationships and knowledge of the supplier's current performance are of great importance.

Another aspect is the commitment to corporate social responsibility (CSR). Supplier audits serve here as a comparison of the sustainability topics relevant and indispensable for your organization with the corresponding approach and processes of your suppliers. For this purpose, we develop criteria, methods and tools individually for your company that are suitable for CSR supplier assessment.

Approaches for auditing the performance of your external suppliers also arise in the context of a QM system within the framework of the well-known ISO 9001:2015 standard.

Process audits can also serve as a weak point analysis for your company, especially in risk assessment. This applies, for example, to supply bottlenecks or the possible failure of a supplier. In addition, auditing and evaluating potential new suppliers is a good way to qualify them according to your customer requirements and to stabilize your own manufacturing process.

Detailed access to the suppliers' value creation processes often reveals gaps and potential for improvement. Measures derived from this provide your company with significant competitive advantages.

Compliance audits focus on compliance with your regulatory obligations. However, requirements relating to sustainability issues such as human rights and employee rights, occupational safety or environmental protection are also market-relevant examples. The catalog of requirements can have the following character:

• customer-specific
• standard-related or
• statutory

Your benefits from supplier audits are particularly noticeable through a high level of implementation orientation. Results from supplier audits lead to objective, comprehensible findings and substantial decision-making aids. This results in concrete improvements with long-term benefits.

The benefits of supplier audits result from:

• Individually coordinated criteria catalogs and evaluation systems
• Methodical and reproducible procedures for supplier evaluation
• Targeted identification of potential opportunities and risks
• Risk limitation, legal certainty and qualification vis-à-vis your customers
• The continuous improvement process in the supplier relationship
• Targeted safeguarding of your own manufacturing process
• Short-term relief in case of internal resource bottlenecks, national and international
• Establishment of long-term, resilient partner networks

As soon as we know your supply chain management and your ideas, we align our planning precisely and individually to the resources and requirements of your company. On this basis, our audits offer a variety of starting points for making the right decisions and implementing improvements.

For these reasons, the costs for a supplier audit cannot be given as a lump sum. Please contact us: We will be happy to work out an individual quote for your company.

• Meaningful audit reports include recommendations for action
• Personal, smooth support from our specialists - regionally, nationally and internationally
• Individual offers with flexible contract terms without hidden costs