Factory Compliance Audit

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CIL Provides Accredited Factory Compliance Audit Services in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. CIL is an ISO 17020 accredited inspection agency for 'factory compliance audits / vendor audits / supplier audits. CDG provides on line & off line support to an Organization, by deploying its well-trained professionals to oversee legal compliance needs, as applicable to the plant, Business House or Factory located across India.

This allows HR generalists to concentrate & excel in core areas and functions of human resource management, crucial for accelerated development, growth and profitability. CDG provides the tools for mapping the strengths & identifying areas of improvement in human resource management, as also recommends effective guidelines & recommendations to drive the organization to the next level, in today ' s highly competitive & volatile business environment.

Scope of Work including EH&S support:

Factory plan approval

New Factory License / Renewal / Amendment / Transfer

Building Stability Certificate

Registration of Contractors under the CLRA Act

Pressure vessel Testing

Lifting Machineries / Lifting Tools & Tackles inspection by Competent authority

Statutory Registers Maintenance under the Factory Act and applicable allied Acts

On-site Emergency Plans and Record of Mock Drills

Statutory Returns submission as per the periodicity – Quarterly / Half Yearly / Annual

Safety Committee Meeting

Training to ERT Members on First Aid

Display of Statutory Abstracts / Notices

Consent to Operate (CTO) under the Pollution Control Board Authority – One-time model

Fire License / Fire Fighting Systems

Training calendar & Records on Safety, Fire and First-aid

Accident Reporting & Investigation reports.

Accidents and Dangerous occurrences – Statistics & Analysis

Record of tests and examinations of equipment and structures as per statutes

Safe Operating Procedures (SOP) for various plant operations

Record of work permit systems

Maintenance and testing records of fire detection and firefighting equipment’s

Records of industrial hygiene surveys (noise, ventilation, illumination levels, & Indoor air quality)

Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS)

Records of Waste Disposal

Records of STP & ETP treatment

PPE Matrix / Other documents related to EHS Management System.

Factory audits are one of the best ways to get a full picture of your supplier’s sourcing and operational policies, and ensure that they align with your company’s brand image. The type(s) of audit that’s best for your company depends on the type of product or service you provide. The factory audits, each type, all lead to the ultimate goal of protecting your company’s image and your brand image(s). They allow an independent third-party auditor to objectively evaluate core objectives of safety, security, ethical operations, compliance of government regulations, adherence to your company’s standards, and to avoid costly supply chain interruptions. Factory audits help ensure your supply chain is complying with local and international standards, your own company’s standards, and, ultimately, aligning with your company’s image standards. A Factory Compliance Audit' is very important for both buyer & supplier as well. It's critical to conduct a factory audit in India to identify underperforming current supplies as well as new potential suppliers. Until locking in any order, a factory audit is required in the long run, it will save you from possible catastrophe, financial loss, and business failure. Is your factory receiving negative feedback on its products? It's past time for you to recognize the flaws in the operating process and correct everything.

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Details:

• The last step before placing an order is usually the factory audit. You can carry out a factory audit by visiting the factory yourself or you can hire a third party (CDG Inspection Limited) to do it on your behalf. Factory audit will help to improve the quality of your supplier chain and also reduce risk of your sourcing process from India. Factory audit (FA) refers to an onsite factory inspection that is carried out on behalf of an importer at the premises of the manufacturer before placing an order to a new manufacturer. Factory Audit is aimed at avoiding getting involved in a bind working with the wrong factory.
• During the Factory Audit, CDG auditor records data and takes pictures of all the essential aspects for the importer’s reference for them to have an in-depth feeling and sense about the factory before any contract is signed.
• A Factory Audit is compulsory before any order is locked in because it will (in the long run) save the importer from potential disaster, money loss, disappointment and business failure. Thus, accurate and concrete information are needed when selecting a supplier. These information will help you determine if they are the right supplier to do business with.
• Whether a factory will fulfil order in time ? Whether a supplier is well equipped to produce right quality product ? When you have these questions at the very early stage, it means you want to be certain that the factory can fulfil the order within the deadline and meet your required quality level. Our Factory Audit (Factory Compliance Audit, Quality System Audit) service will help you.
• With high qualified engineers and professional experience of assessing 500+ china factories, CDG can help you make your crucial decision on whether you should trust and move forward with a potential Indian supplier. A factory audit (factory evaluation, supplier evaluation) report with full information will be emailed to you within 24 hours. By our supplier evaluation or a factory audit report, you will have a general understanding to the supplier and basic feeling if they are reliable to do business with.
• A factory audit is a snapshot of your factory at a particular moment in time. An experienced auditor visits with their checklist full of items to verify and check. And they have an important goal to verify whether everything the company said about themselves is true.
• Your supplier could just be trying to win your business. And all those yeses they gave you may not be completely accurate. Or, maybe they don’t know their stuff, and so “yes” is their default answer.

• Do they have the capability to make your product? And,
• Do they have the capacity they’d need to produce it on time?
• We do due diligence and find a good factory to work with. CDG’s audits ensure a supplier has the required competence, compliance and capability to meet contractual requirement

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Factory audit (FA) refers to an onsite factory inspection that is carried out on behalf of an importer at the premises of the manufacturer before placing an order to a new manufacturer. Factory Audit is aimed at avoiding getting involved in a bind working with the wrong factory.

During the Factory Audit, the auditor records data and takes pictures of all the essential aspects for the importer’s reference for them to have an in-depth feeling and sense about the factory before any contract is signed.

The news of corporate corruption flying around the business world have made companies to pay more attention to enacting policies that reflect corporate social responsibility.

The fall of recognizable businesses has cautioned companies that do not pay attention to conducting their operations ethically.

This has made such companies to develop a checklist that will ensure that their actions are in line with high standards of business etiquettes.

1.   Strategy and Vision

The corporate social responsibility checklist must comprise all aspects of the company’s vision statement as well as strategic goals that will make it effective. You need to understand the social responsibility issues that are specific to your industry and the world at large.

  2. Accountability and Oversight

The compliance with social responsibility checklist must bring the bad behaviors of company leaders into oversight and ensure that the leaders are held accountable.

The checklist should determine if the factory in question has any department that’s in charge of tracking CSR behaviors and reporting all violations to the authorities concerned.

3.   Risk Identification

Although all businesses encounter different kinds of risks, the compliance with social responsibility checklist will go a long way in helping the factories to determine if the level of risk encountered while making a decision aligns with the traditional business ethics.

The checklist must pinpoint risks to the factory’s ethical practices in its policies as well as actions. The factory audit of social responsibility must be factored into a factory’s decisions on business risks. It must also get rid of potential ethical problems.Compliance for a new factory or an existing factory not only calls for knowledge but also requires enormous efforts on the administrative front.

Effective monitoring system should be in place to ensure the voluminous compliance activities are carried out on time. All these efforts are essential to maintain a congenial IR climate apart from compliance and governance.

CIL Factory Compliance Services offers the client the required knowledge base and designs technology driven systems and processes for completion of clerical activities to ensure compliance on a routine basis, thus freeing the client to focus on development and IR climate.

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Factory Audits & Supplier Audits

An official tailor-made factory audit services for quality assurance purposes.

Core Objective

A factory audit is a program to assess the quality from all factors and aspects of a factory’s functioning process. The inspection of quality management and overall look and feel before an organization decides to further deal with another company or organization is where our suppliers audit fixes perfectly.

CDG believes in a smart decision before regrets. We are a factory audit agency where our quality inspectors take the lead of inspection before you join hands with another organization. Our supplier auditing process is simple yet highly efficient.

Why CDG For The Factory Audit?

With a high number of clients satisfied on the international board, CDG takes the honour of assisting national & international clients on the same priority. To make concepts much clear before decision making, our clients need to understand the value of supplier auditing and how it is done by CDG.

Prime Value Of Our Factory Audit

CDG conducts factory audits to primarily check the processing and procedures of a factory. We aim to assess the facility’s quality system. The other factors that are also keenly observed are:

· Workplace environment

· Quality conduct

· Capabilities

· Standard delivery process

· Final object delivery

· The capabilities are measured as per the client’s requirement and delivery standard of the company. CDG ensures that your vendors and suppliers are able to undertake an order as per your demands.

· The Avoidance Of Scam Or Illegal Factories

· CDG has an official team of professional auditors.

· The factory auditors are highly experienced and skilled to analyze and investigate the proceedings to the roots. With an extensive yet critical investigation procedure, manufacturer audit comes as clean as possible. We cannot deny the increasing rate of scams in industries. However, CDG can assure the avoidance of any illegal activity or scams.

· Our factory auditors make sure to elaborate the proceedings of the vendor/supplier to our clients for second-degree assurance of safety before closing the deal.Auditing takes many forms in India, including tax auditing, company auditing, financial auditing, compliance auditing, management auditing, and many others. The requirements for becoming an auditor vary depending on the type. If you want to be an auditor, this post will try to give you a better picture of auditing in India. Pending Rejection – 180 Days – This designation is utilized in the following situations:

1. A factory has failed to demonstrate continuous improvement (closure of major issues) against their Corrective Action Plan.

2. An active factory is found to have a Critical issue.

3. The factory has exceeded the allowable follow-up audits to achieve an Accepted designation.

These factories are authorized to produce CIL or related licensed products but must substantially demonstrate continuous improvement, or achieve an Accepted designation, or the designation will be dropped to ‘Rejected.' A ‘Supply Chain’ facility is required to make continuous improvement against the established Corrective Action Plan.

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A proper factory audit is critical in ensuring that your supply chain is compliant, efficient, and capable of delivering a quality product for your customers. CDG helps ensure that your suppliers and vendors have quality control systems, regulatory compliance, and productivity measures in place to help your business flourish.

It is important for you to understand what a factory audit is, the three critical areas of a successful audit, and the different types of factory audits. This article provides you a clear explanation of a factory audit’s purpose and how CDG will help your business achieve supply chain success and compliance.

What is a Factory Audit?

A factory audit is a formalized process to evaluate if a vendor or supplier conforms with regulations or required business standards. The purpose is to ensure that the supplier delivers quality services and products. Quality managers usually perform factory audits, and they evaluate the supplier’s production processes, organization, and quality management system.

Types of Factory Audits

To ensure your vendors are compliant and reliable for your business’s distribution channel, you must understand these five types of factory audits. Below are the most critical factory audit types and their benefits.

1. Ethical Audit

Ethical audits are critical because they confirm the review and evaluation of the vendor’s social accountability. Today, companies must achieve a higher standard of providing a safe, healthy, and ethical work environment, including creating quality pay and labor practices. A thorough ethical audit checks to see if the proper work conditions exist throughout the organization.

There are many benefits of ethical audits for your business. It confirms compliance with government requirements and provides you with the confidence that your supply chain has safe human rights practices and working conditions. Ethical audits help you understand what proper compliance looks like and will strengthen your company’s brand reputation.

2. Manufacturing Audit

A manufacturing audit determines if a vendor can produce and deliver a product that satisfies your company’s needs and specifications for manufacturing audits. It also prevents the possibility of costly disruptions or production issues, which could hurt your business. Manufacturing audits also play a role in mitigating operational, ethical, and quality risks.

Manufacturing audits provide other advantages to help your business move products to your final customers quickly and efficiently. It helps align your company’s sourcing and distribution policies with your vendor’s policies. You also receive an accurate snapshot of the factory’s competence and overall capabilities to produce a reliable product.

3. Environmental Audit

Environmental audits evaluate compliance with local regulations and laws for optimal environmental protection. It ensures that your vendor follows your business’ compliance requirements and other international principles. These audits also help foster continuous environmental performance improvement.

4. Structural Audit

Your vendor’s premises and buildings should prove that it has strong safety and compliance systems for a factory audit. Structural audits ensure compliance with fire safety measures, conditions and codes, and structural integrity. These audits provide a clear view of the quality of safety in your supply chain.

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A factory audit is a tailor-made program aimed at assessing a facility’s quality systems, workplace environment and capabilities in accordance with standards set by the client or CDG. It ensures that your vendors and suppliers are able to undertake a specific order as per your requirements.

A factory audit ensures that the supplier or vendor can design and produce according to normative requirements. It also ensures that a new or existing manufacturer can deliver quality products, undertake continuous improvements and operate efficiently. An annual factory inspection determines if the products to be manufactured/certified fulfill the correct requirements. By providing a means to examine a factory’s structure, organization, quality process and experience, the audit enables you to compare potential suppliers and select a viable source.

HOW TO PREPARE FOR A FACTORY AUDIT

It is important to establish a Quality Management System for the product manufactured and prepare documents to be checked on site. The factory should conduct an internal audit and management review then initiate corrective actions to address any identified gaps before applying for a preliminary audit.

CDG conducts technical audits at the business premises of vendors and manufacturers to enable them to understand the existing Quality Management System, improve quality towards a "zero complaints" goal, and produce according to normative requirements.

Our auditors can follow any checklist specified or compile a checklist to match your requirements. We provide the evaluation report and recommendations for each process. Our experts also offer gap analysis* and preliminary audit services.

• Gap assessment
  CDG identifies areas of non-conformity in the supplier/vendor factory so that gaps can be targeted for improvement.
• On-site factory audit
  We perform an evaluation of the supplier/vendor factory’s on-site quality system, workplace environment and capabilities. This can be done in accordance with standards set by the client, CDG or requirements for certified products. Our factory audit confirms that the supplier/vendor can produce the ordered product quantity to the agreed quality and time specifications.
• Report
  Our auditors prepare expert reports based on their observations as well as their subjective evaluations.
• Follow-up audit
  We follow up on the initial audit to determine if the supplier/vendor factory has made improvements based on the recommendations of the previous report.
• CDG provides on line & off line support to an Organization, by deploying its well-trained professionals to oversee legal compliance needs, as applicable to the plant, Business House or Factory located across India.
• This allows HR generalists to concentrate & excel in core areas and functions of human resource management, crucial for accelerated development, growth and profitability.

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Factory Audit Inspection

A Factory Audit are conducted at your supplier’s manufacturing facilities to examine their manufacturing capacities, quality management system, to provide assurance of regulatory compliance and assess product quality to identify workplace safety. Our audits range from verifying business transactions, safety and compliance checks of processes and systems.

A Factory Audit is used to assess if your potential supplier is a real company and who’s exporting license is being used. Conducting audits help ensure your compliance with global market, industry and regulatory requirements.

Supplier Audits provide you with clear picture of your supplier’s business and policies, along with information outlining corrective action, if necessary. CDG Supplier Audits aim to help you build long-term relations with your suppliers and achieve continuous improvement.

CDG offers a range of supplier audit programs to help you engage with capable and ethical suppliers:

• Manufacturing Audit
• Social Audit
• Food Audits

Factory Audit comprises of visiting the Seller and conducting an inspection in the following areas:

• Identify the Supplier - You will find out if you are buying from a trading company or direct from the manufacturer. If you are buying from the manufacturer, you will get the details of the factory so that you can buy from them and save money by cutting out the middle guy.

• Background Information – we check information about exporting license, financial circumstances, business licenses, sales records and factory owner details.

• Quality Controls Procedures and Responsibilities – to ensuring the quality is maintained, testing certificates are genuine and up to date, and to verify that your supplier’s quality management system is suitable for your supply chain.

• New Part Manufacturing Procedures – to confirm seller’s practices and procedures to production of new products. To get a full picture of your supplier’s sourcing and operational policies, and to protect your brand image.

• Product Testing – review and verify suppliers testing procedures meet international standards.

• Consumer Complaints – understand supplier’s practices and procedures to any consumer complaints.

• Product Failure Responsibilities – confirm what support and commitment will the supplier make in the event of Product Failure.

• On Time Delivery – to identify the steps supplier takes that products are delivered on time.

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