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SQP Audit

What Is SQP Audit?

Supplier Qualification Program

SQP stands for Supplier Qualification Program, It is a technical audit program which was developed by surveying the requirement of global consumer product brands and retailers. It provides a standard that shows improvement by ensuring supplier’s production processes have the controls which are required to mitigate risk. It also helps to measure supplier performance and at the same time facilitating continuous improvement in managing product quality and safety. Many American and UK based customers are demanding this certification from their suppliers. Effective measures for supplier’s production processes and quality safety evaluation being demanded by the brands and international buyers, they demand more effective way of evaluations. Proactive ways are being discovered by the factories to benchmark themselves and track progress against competitors and national standards. Significant shift has been observed towards greater transparency and the implementation tool for assessing continuous improvement.

By implementing SQP standard organization can improve and control its overall production processes risk and quality safety conditions to assure the confidence & satisfaction of their customers and other stakeholders. Factory can get the certificate after successful certification audit but it is the score based certification and certificate is issued if any factory meets the minimum score in audit which is required to get the certificate issued as well as customers has also set the acceptance score against the audit.

SQP is the voluntary certification program and is suitable for any organization i.e. large, medium and small considering improvement in its quality assurance practices and sustainability to meet the expectations of all stakeholders. SQP audit is performed against the requirements of SQP standard which assures safe, legal, ethical & secure manufacturing process.

If any supplier organization is certified on SQP, that certificate and audit report can be shared with multiple customers rather than having different audit conducted for each customer if the customer accept the overall percentage of audit result as SQP audit report reflect the percentage against each improvement area that make overall percentage.

Benefits of SQP Certification

  • Improved Controls and Processes for Managing Product Quality and Safety
  • Improved Transparency and Trust between Buyers and Suppliers
  • Reduced Audit Fatigue
  • Better Risk Management
  • Recognition through Achievement Award for Top Performing Suppliers
  • Get the SQP Certificate
  • Develop complete Quality Management system
  • Get new business opportunities from international Retailers
  • Improve quality performance
  • Improve the reporting structure
  • Improve the traceability
  • Globally accepted standard
  • Helpful to attract new customers
  • Helpful to retain the confidence of existing customers
  • Consistent outcome, measure and monitored
  • Acceptable for International organizations
 

 

 

SQP Standard Focuses on

  • Management Commitment and Continual Improvement
  • Risk Management Systems
  • Quality Management Systems
  • Site and Facilities Management
  • Product Control
  • Product Testing and Product Claims
  • Process Control
  • Personnel Training and Competency

By implementing this standards organization can improve its overall quality compliance performance to assure the confidence & satisfaction as well as meet the expectation of its customers.

SQP Audit Process

After finalization of agreement with client, Quality Systems’ experts visit to client’s premises and conduct the complete gap analysis of existing system against the SQP code of conduct and discuss the gap report to the management, identified gaps could be in documents, implementation, employee’s awareness, customer code gaps. We commence work according to the agreed timelines as per final gap report and proceed for the audit once all the documentation, implementation, and other requirements are done. Our technical team provides complete assistance, support and cooperation throughout the process to make certification audit successful in first attempt.

SQP certificate is not award once-and-for-all, it must be renewed before expiration of the certificate. After applying for the audit to the certification body, they conduct the audit. After the successful conduction of audit, certification body issues the certificate with validity of 01 year. After completion of one year of audit cycle re-audit will be conducted to continue the process of certification.

Cost of SQP Certification

Charges of SQP certification can not be flat or same for every organization, please contact us in this regard.

Why Quality Systems

Quality Systems is working with the team of qualified and experienced consultants and trainers having vast industrial experience, most of our consultants are also lead auditors who are aware to the expectations of auditors from your management system during the audit. Quality systems is assisting across the world to implement and achieve the SQP outstanding score. Our consultation methodology is highly professional, time bound and effective and we always add value to the business process of the client’s organization.

Our SQP Certification complete package comprised on following segments such as training, implementation, consultation, gap analysis, documentation, internal audits, pre assessment, third party audit through recognized Certification body and post audit enhancement / maintenance services to enable your organization to get the best outcome of SQP. Our services are globally accepted, authoritative and benchmarked in the field of SQP audit.