IndoComTrade

With our service we will make sure that you will not going to buy BLIND! An onsite visit by an experienced auditor is the only way to verify your potential business partner’s profile. This Simple Audit will allow you to know who you are dealing with and to prevent losses.


1. Sourcing and Factory Assessment Audit

One of the key essential factor before importing or buying products from overseas is selecting the right vendor. Its objective is to confirm and make sure that the factory able deliver the right product in the right timeframe and the purposes of Sourcing and Factory Assessment Audit are:

To identify key strengths and weaknesses of your existing vendor and new vendor base

Avoiding scams and inexperienced vendors

Compare potential vendors and select viable source in order to have the most efficient and effective production ….within the time limit  and the lowest cost.

What we will do:

Background checks: for example- basic financial information, factory’s official licenses and certifications, and
….looks for evidence of other customer orders

Evaluate capabilities of potential new vendors as part of the selection process

Check the experience in manufacturing targeted products of the factory

2. Factory Audit

Why Factory Audit?

A factory audit usually takes place after a group of potential suppliers have been screened down to a few serious candidates. It is the most in-depth form of supplier evaluation. It allows you to verify the capability of manufacturer to meet contract condition for safety, quality and performance, quantity and delivery terms.
Approving the factory where production will take place is the last step in the process of selecting a supplier. Factory audit also encourage progress over time by pointing to areas of improvement.

The purposes on conducting factory audit are:

To make sure that the factory is capable of making the buyer’s products

To make sure that the factory able to handle complex workmanship and how they’re controlling their cost

To verify the quality system, to observe the verifications of incoming materials, in-process products and finished
…goods. The main objectives is too look for holes in the factory’s quality system, and to evaluate their reliability

Monitor and track progress over time to drive quality throughout the manufacturing process

Provide an independent assessment tool that both parties can use together to make improvements.

Core processes and area addressed by factory audit includes:
1. Quality Management System
2. Product Control
3. Process Control
4. Good Manufacturing Practice (Factory environment standards)



3. Social Audit

When consumers discovered that their favorite brand name companies were exploiting child and other “sweatshop” labor, the resulting public outcry made it very difficult if not impossible for companies to continue shirking responsibility for labor conditions in their factories. The concept of corporate citizenship, or social responsibility, has become a very important business practice of companies nowadays especially for their brand image.

A social audit is tool for reporting and evaluates of an organization’s social performance and ultimately to improve its social and ethical performance. A social audit helps to narrow gaps between vision/goal and reality, between efficiency and effectiveness. It is concerned with the possible influence on the social quality of life instead of the economic quality of life.

Social auditing objective’s is usually to avoid public relations risks for the importer or the retailer it also creates an impact upon governance. It is taken up for the purpose of enhancing local governance, particularly for strengthening accountability and transparency in local bodies.

The benefits of social audit are as follows:

• It enables the company to take close look at itself and understand how far the company has lived up to its social objectives.
• It encourages greater concern for social performance throughout the organization.
• It provides data for comparing effectiveness of the different types of programs.
• It provides cost data on social programs so that management can relate the data to budgets, available resources, company objectives and projected benefits of programs.
• The social audit shows a business where it is vulnerable to public pressure and where its strengths lie

The aim of social accountability (code of conduct, human rights, ethical requirements) audit/monitoring is to ensure that your business partners abide with your company’s commitment to corporate social responsibility. To validate transparency, consistency and integrity, most companies use a 3rd party company to conduct the social accountability compliance audit. Indocomtrade verification is compliance to SA8000 standards in impartiality and justness.

SA 8000 is based on international workplace norms such as ILO conventions; UN´s Universal Declaration of Human Rights; Childs Rights Convention

SA 8000 Standard Elements:
>Child labor
>Forced labor
>Health & Safety
>Freedom of assessment
>Discrimination
>Disciplinary practices
>Working hours
>Environment

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