KLASTON MANAGEMENT AUDITS
There are several types of Audit: Intern Audit, External audit (second and third party), Combined audit and last but not least the Joint audit.
The audit is a tool that evaluates the effectiveness of the Management System, in order to identify risks, opportunities and determine compliance with requirements.
Auditing is a systematic, independent and documented process of obtaining objective evidence and evaluating it objectively to determine the extent to which audit criteria are met.
Types of Audit:
Intern audit: Sometimes called first-party audits, they are conducted by the organization itself for management review or other internal purposes and can form the basis for an organization’s declaration of compliance. Independence can be demonstrated by the absence of responsibility in relation to the activity being audited.
External audit: include those generally referred to as second- and third-party audits. Second-party audits are conducted by parties having an interest in the organization, such as customers or by others on their behalf. Third-party audits are conducted by external, independent auditing organizations, such as those that provide compliance certification/registration, or by government agencies.
Combined audit: carried out on a single auditee in two or more management systems. The parts of a management system that can be involved in a combined audit can be identified by relevant management system standards, product standards, service standards or process standards applied by the organization.
Klaston has the experience to carry out all types of Audits, whether they are:
Quality, Environment, Occupational Health and Safety.
ISO 9001, ISO 13485, ISO 14001, ISO 17025, ISO 22001, ISO 45001, ISO 27001, ISO 50001, IATF 16949, CONAMA 306, RDC 16.
- ISO 9001 Internal Audits (Full or Partial)
- QMS Diagnosis – “Gap Analysis”
- Process Audits
- Product Audits
- Supplier Audits
- Legal Compliance Audits
We have professionals available to meet your request in Brazil and abroad.
Supplier Audits can be an excellent opportunity to evaluate your suppliers and ensure that they are complying with what was agreed. See below some of the benefits of auditing your “partner” suppliers
#1 – You will save money
The first and most obvious benefit of regularly auditing your suppliers is that it significantly reduces risk. You can:
Track your suppliers’ performance against service level agreements, identify repeat issues, and identify potential future issues before they happen and create contingency plans.
No more annual losses due to supplier failures!
#2 – You will ensure that suppliers comply with your standards.
If you don’t regularly audit your suppliers, how do you know you’re on the same page? You have a lot of requirements to meet, but are they meeting the same? How do you know they do what they promise?
Standards are changing and adapting all the time, so it is essential that you regularly audit your suppliers against relevant changes.
#3 – You will ensure continuous quality improvement
Without ongoing audits of your suppliers, it is difficult to know whether you are receiving consistent, on-time, defect-free, and standard products.
This makes your own commitment to continuous quality improvement impossible. You need a complete and comprehensive overview of your suppliers’ performance to establish best practice touchpoints for continuous quality improvement.
By regularly auditing your suppliers, you also strengthen your relationship with them. If you let your suppliers “get on with it,” you are missing out on opportunities for new partnerships, better prices, and opportunities to share knowledge.