What Is a Vendor Application?

Supplier audit is an evaluation of the performance of existing suppliers and an annual quality system audit is an important part of the supplier management process. It is based on the completion of the supply market research and analysis and the preliminary screening of potential suppliers. Development of suppliers.

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As far as the control level of procurement and supply is concerned, supplier audits can be limited to the product level, the process level, the quality assurance system level, or even the supplier's overall business management system level (company level).

(1) Product level. It is mainly to confirm and improve the product quality of suppliers. Implementation methods include product or sample approval inspection before formal supply, and incoming quality inspection during supply.

(2) Process level. This level of audit is mainly for products whose quality is strongly dependent on the production process. To ensure the reliability of supply quality, it is often necessary to go deep into the supplier's production site to understand its process, and confirm that its process level, quality control system and corresponding equipment and facilities can meet the quality requirements of the product. This level of audit includes the review of the process, as well as the supplier's on-site process confirmation and adjustment due to instability in the supply process.

(3) Level of quality assurance system. This is an audit of the supplier's entire quality system and process with reference to ISO9000 standards or other quality system standards.

(4) Company level. Company-level auditing is the highest level of auditing of suppliers. It not only examines the supplier's quality system, but also audits the supplier's management level, finance and cost control, planned manufacturing system, information system, and design engineering capabilities. Major business management processes.

In practice, for those ordinary commercial suppliers, buyers are generally limited to product-level and process-level audits, but if buyers want to select partners, the situation is different, especially those with strict management and technology Advanced international companies, they usually use a large number of quality assurance systems and company-level audits to control the supply chain management system.