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What is supplier quality system audit?

Supplier quality system audit is a comprehensive inspection and verification of the supplier's quality management system in accordance with the international standard ISO 9001, ensuring that the supplier can continuously and stably provide products or services that meet the requirements during the production process. This is a systematic evaluation process.

What should we audit during the supplier quality system audit?

1. Basic information of the factory: contact information, business license, enterprise name, address, establishment date, ownership, registered capital, organizational chart, number of employees, including management, R&D personnel, quality control personnel, workers, salespersons, office area, production area, warehouse area, fire protection facilities, hygiene conditions, etc
2. Factory production capacity inspection: Number of production lines, number of production machines and equipment, evaluate daily and monthly output
3. Factory management: procurement management, incoming inspection, production management, employee management, warehouse management.
4. Quality management, control, and planning: Quality policy and plan, effective audit and management of upstream suppliers, inspection of incoming materials (such as raw materials or purchased parts) to ensure the quality and delivery of raw materials, final internal product inspection and testing, inspection, maintenance and regular calibration of measuring and testing equipment, sample inspection, finished product inspection including sampling and full inspection plan arrangement, defect repair management plan and records.
5. Transaction customers and past transaction records: main market, transaction history, reference customers, samples, review their payment history and credit records with other customers.
6 Quality Manual, Procedure Files, and Homework Instructions
Audit whether the supplier has prepared a detailed quality manual, explaining its quality policy, objectives, organizational structure, etc. Check whether there are standardized documents for quality-related management processes and operating procedures to ensure that each link is based on evidence. Review whether there are operation manuals for key production processes to ensure the standardization and consistency of operations.
7. Personnel Capability and Training
Review whether personnel in production, inspection, quality control, and other positions have the corresponding qualifications, and conduct corresponding training and performance evaluations to ensure that they possess the required skills and have relevant records to prove it.
8. Quality traceability and non-conforming product management
Has the supplier established a product batch traceability system that can track every link of raw materials, production process, and finished product shipment?
Whether the discovery, isolation, identification, and handling process of non-conforming products are effective, and analyze and take corrective and preventive measures to ensure that similar problems do not occur again.
9. Environmental and Safety Management
Whether the environmental management complies with environmental regulations and whether there are environmental management system certifications such as ISO 14001. Whether the production process complies with safety standards, whether there are safety operating procedures, and accident prevention measures for effective safety management.
Through these specific audit contents, enterprises can comprehensively evaluate whether the quality management system of suppliers can continue to operate effectively, ensure that suppliers have a sound quality management system, ensure that product or service quality meets enterprise requirements, and thereby reduce quality risks.