Audit Supplier Onsite

Our audits and on-site verification assessments are an effective way to obtain and validate detailed supplier information. This will take the due diligence of their business profile and self-assessment questionnaire review to the next stage to ensure it is validated by a third party.

Intertek can perform physical on-site audits to provide you with the confidence of your supplier’s processes, systems and capabilities. These are typically undertaken for your most critical and highest risk-profile suppliers.

Here a few reasons why Intertek is your qualified partner:

• 20+ years history in onsite compliance auditing
• Assessed over half a million factories for CSR performance over that time
• 100,000 onsite compliance audits conducted in 2016
• Working with 100 of the Fortune 500 companies
• We have thousands of unique clients using our online audit and data management platforms; our online platforms host over 100,000 factories

Sample Onsite Auditing Programs

Intertek has a range of compliance verification audit programs you can use to help assess key compliance risks. Below are sample onsite audit programs we offer that complement our Inlight supply chain efforts:

Inlight Profile Verification:

• Facility evaluation and validation of Inlight Business Profile and/or Supplier Self Assessment

Corporate Social Responsibility Compliance Audits:

• Intertek’s Standard Workplace Conditions Assessment
• SMETA – Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit
• BSCI – Business Social Compliance Initiative
• ICS – Initiative Clause Sociale
• EICC – Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition
• SA 8000 – Social Accountability International audit
• WRAP – Worldwide Responsible Accredited Program
• PSCI- Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Initiative
• TfS – Together for Sustainability

Quality Management Systems and Compliance

• Intertek’s Supplier Qualification Program (SQP)
• Intertek’s Mill Qualification Program (MQP)
• Intertek’s Trim Qualification Program (TQP)
• BRC – British Retailer Consortium
• ISO 19001

Supply Chain Security (C-TPAT, PIP, AEO)    

• Intertek's Global Security Verification
• Other client specific programs

Environmental Compliance    

• Intertek’s Think Green Initiative (TGI)
• Intertek’s Environmental Chemical Management (ECM)
• Higg Index Verification Services
• Business Environmental Performance Initiative (BEPI) Services
• Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC)
• Other industry standards and client specific programs