Factory Compliance Audit

A quality assurance tool for importers is a factory compliance audit. Here at CIL, we send a professional auditor to your supplier’s (or prospective supplier’s) facilities to confirm compliance with certain predetermined requirements.

While on-site at the factory, the compliance auditor carries out a number of checks and provides a detailed report to help you in your supply chain decisions. Take for example, they will work to determine whether your product supplier:

• Has the capacity or capability to meet your order requirements.
• Has an effective quality management structure in place.
• Is operating in line with environmental requirements or labor laws.

At the end of the factory compliance audit, you will receive a complete detailed audit report, which provides information about the auditor’s findings along with photographs.

Compliance audits are aimed at helping you manage existing supplier relationship or aid you in the product sourcing process.

If there are any problem you should be aware of, you will certainly be notified so that you can handle them appropriately.

Why Factory Audit is Required?
Naturally, your suppliers will make claims on what systems are in place for quality management, how they operate, compliance with labor laws, environmental management, etc.

Hiring a neutral third-party compliance auditor to visit the factory gives you a clearer picture of what is actually happening and lets you ensure they are up to your standards or verify any claim a supplier might make.

It is essential to establish a quality management system for the manufactured product and prepare documents to be checked on-site.

CIL conducts technical audits at the business premises of manufactures and vendors to help them understand the existing quality management system in place, produce according to normative requirements, and improve quality towards a “zero complaints” goal.

Our factory compliance auditors follow any specified checklist. In the absence of none, we provide a checklist to match your requirements. We provide evaluation report and offer recommendations for each process of the audit.

Our audit experts also offer preliminary audit services and gap analysis.

CIL’s Factory Compliance Audit Services
At CIL Quality, we help you to ensure that the suppliers you work with meet your standards of quality and are complaint with all applicable local and international guidelines.

We offer a wide range of quality assurance services to importers. Our compliance audit service covers multiple areas. We conduct the following types of factory audits on the business premises of manufacturers:

Capability Audit
Conducted to ensure a product supplier has the capacity and capability to meet your manufacturing requirements and complete your orders in a timely manner.

Quality Audit
Conducted to evaluate the efficacy of a supplier’s Quality Management System (QMS). Factory’s efficiency (production capacity, labor, equipment, etc.)

Security Audit
This audit is conducted to confirm compliance with Customs and Border Protection’s guidelines and programs.

Environmental Audit
Conducted to evaluate a supplier’s environmental management system to ensure compliance with applicable guidelines and high environmental standards.

Social & Labor Compliance Audit
Conducted to verify compliance with any applicable labor laws and universally held standards for worker treatment.

Gap Evaluation
CIL identifies areas where possible improvements can be made; areas of non-conformity in the vendor/supplier factory and target such sectors for improvement.

Audit Report
Our expert auditors prepare detailed reports based on their observations during the process of compliance audits as well as their subjective evaluations.

Follow-up Audit
Here at CIL, we follow up on the initial compliance audit to see if the vendor/supplier’s factory has made improvements based on the recommendations of the previous factory audit report.

Generally, in factory compliance audit, we see:

• Factory compliance with local legislative & regulatory requirements
• Factory’s efficiency (production capacity, labor, equipment, etc.)
• Financial capability
• CSR activities
• Occupational health & safety practices
• Labor laws, and much more.

We create a comprehensive biodata of a supplier’s factory after the compliance audit.

Why Partner With CIL?
Our people have real-world business acumen to understand your goals, needs, and operations. We have a fantastic team at the root of our services and value. Systems, products, and processes are essential, but people are always number one. We support our team and put them first so they can put your business first! CIL is an ISO 17020 accredited inspection agency for factory compliance audit.