Consumers, governments and communities alike are concerned with how the manufacturing of consumer products impacts the lives of workers, their communities and
the environment, as well as the safety of the products produced. As retailers and brands work to demonstrate good corporate governance across their supply chains, their suppliers are concurrently being asked to continuously showcase their capabilities, capacity and performance in these areas.
Being proactive in improving supply chain performance requires evaluation of processes and procedures, measuring the results in order to better react to risk, monitor market signals and facilitate continuous improvement.
Intertek has developed a series of risk-based assessment tools and audit solutions to assess and benchmark suppliers, while helping global companies manage and track the performance in their supply chains. The assessments measure business risk, capacity and capabilities, workplace conditions, product quality and safety, security and environmental sustainability.
This knowledge allows you to map the risk in your supply chain and track improvements and performance, enabling you to make more informed buying decisions and mitigate against reputational risk.
Intertek's portfolio of risk assessment tools and audit solutions include:
- Intertek Trust ID #
- Import Safety Intelligence
- Think Green Initiative
- Supplier Qualification Program
- Workplace Conditions Assessment
- Mill Qualification program
- Global Security Verification
Intertek Trust ID # - Provides Trust and Transparency to Your Identity
- Enables factories to develop an identification number that connects to a living factory profile on Import Safety Intelligence (ISI)
- Connects a factory profile to all Intertek audit programs, reducing duplication and redundancy associated with completing factory profiles for multiple audits
- Showcases your factory profile, capacity and capabilities and connects to global brands and retailers
Import Safety Intelligence (ISI) - Import with Confidence
- Builds supplier trust to enable importers to buy with confidence
- Develops a living factory profile on capacity and capabilities
- Connects the global community of importers and suppliers, resulting in a better, more efficient match
- Benchmarks and measures your factory against peers in your sector, country or global marketplace
- Improves your factory rating with regard to product quality, safety, social, security, quality and environmental performance
Think Green Initiative (TGI) -A Sustainable Approach to Greening the Value Chain
- Enables manufacturers to complete the trilogy: Think Green, Act Green and Be Green
- Allows factories to simultaneously demonstrate environmental performance and improve bottom line
Supplier Qualification Program (SQP) — Manufacture with Confidence
- Provides factories with improved controls and processes for managing product quality and safety
- Incorporates elements of GMP, BRC, FMEA and ISO principles, supported by product-specific modules for softlines, toys, footwear, furniture and hardlines
- Aligns with the general requirements of US and European retailers
Workplace Conditions Assessment (WCA) - Measured Results : Improved Performance
- Evaluates factory workplace conditions and puts working hours into perspective by benchmarking against sector, country and global averages
- Enables you to demonstrate your performance on real issue - Good Workplaces = Happy People
- Teaches new approaches for assessing, benchmarking and communicating workplace performance in order to measure the positive progress made and identify areas for continuous improvement
- Measures how you perform against global, country and industry-specific benchmarks
- Global recognition through alignment with the Global Standard for Consumer Products (GSCP)
Mill Qualification program (MQP) - A New Operating Environment for Sustainable Textiles Suppliers
- Garment quality starts with fabric quality - the further down the supply chain you start the better
- Controls fabric quality, environment issues and social attributes
- Offers 4 Separate modules: - Quality (Quality systems) - Testing (Laboratory) - Environmental (TGI) - Social (WCA)
Global Security Verification (GSV) Verify Supplier Chain Security and Facilitate Global Trade Efficiency
- Enables voluntary participation among factories to demonstrate compliance to C-TPAT members by working towards meeting the requirements established by U.S. Customs and Border Protection
- Join the world’s largest platform and community of suppliers assessed to GSV standard
- Reduces audit fatigue, saves cost and enable global recognition
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