Supplier Audit, also as known as Factory Audit, is the process of auditing or evaluating the factory according to certain standards. In order to strengthen the supply chain management, ensure the product quality stability and reduce the trade risks, the purchaser proposes Supplier/Factory Audit. It not only helps the purchaser to select new high-quality suppliers, but also helps to improve the quality control level of existing suppliers. When cooperating with a new supplier, it is necessary to arrange a factory audit, which may help the buyer to reduce wisks and improve efficiency.

Supplier Audit/ Factory Audit is the evaluation and vertification of the factory’s production capacity and performance. Only by ensuring the quality and safety of the production process, environment, management system, and other aspects of the supply chain, can customers receive satisfactory products. The key to supplier audit/factory audit is not the inspection of a certain product at a certain time point, but the assessment and true reflection of the quality management ability formed by the factory’s policies, pocedures, and records.