Over the last 20 years manufacturers have increasingly relocated their plants and/or looked to low cost centres such as South America, Asia and Eastern/Central Europe for outsourcing of production to independent suppliers of those countries.

This change in approach – outsourcing – has undoubtedly reduced direct costs of manufacture but, particularly in the case of outsourcing to independent suppliers, has multiplied the risk of poor Quality, poor Health and Safety and Environmental and Social practices impacting on the client’s bottom line and reputation with their consumers and stakeholder.

In order to minimize/manage these risks these companies have the need to operate stringent and time consuming/costly Supplier Audit practices of their own to not only initially evaluate potential suppliers as to their suitability to work on-behalf of the client but also, at periodic intervals, to re-assess the actual performance and continued suitability of the supply chain.

Increasingly, third parties are being contracted to carry out 2nd party supplier audits. AJA Registrars with its global network of offices and large multi disciplined pool of auditors is ideally placed to provide this service and has an established track record of such services in disciplines that include:

Our global network of offices, with strategic regional headquarters, ensure that our Management and Audit teams can provide any client with experienced and qualified project planning and management approaches and culturally appropriate on-site audit practices against both relevant national legislative ad regulatory requirements and against each client’s own audit agenda/criteria.