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Technical Auditing

What is a Technical Audit?

When partnering with new suppliers or enhancing the performance of existing ones, verifying adherence to your quality standards is essential. A technical audit by APS ensures a meticulous review of your supplier’s performance against established quality criteria, enabling you to make informed decisions and pinpoint areas for improvement.

APS’s technical audit offers a thorough evaluation of a facility’s systems and processes, ensuring they meet your standards or identifying areas needing attention. This comprehensive assessment provides you with the assurance that quality levels are maintained or improved effectively.

Our Solutions

APS offers robust and independent technical audits to evaluate your supplier’s (or potential supplier’s) capabilities comprehensively. Our audits are tailored to meet the specific needs of your industry or product, as well as your in-house quality requirements.

Our Audit Protocol Covers:
Our Audit Protocol Covers:
  • Verify Supplier Capabilities: Ensure that new or existing suppliers meet your quality requirements.
  • Manage Quality Risks: Prevent potential quality issues by confirming that adequate systems are in place.
  • Improve Quality Standards: Identify opportunities to enhance quality and performance.
  • Maintain Consistent Standards: Ensure uniform quality and safety standards across multiple suppliers.
What You Will Receive Following an Audit:

After completing an audit, APS delivers a comprehensive report within 48 hours. If issues are identified, a Corrective Action Plan (CAP) is provided to your supplier, outlining necessary actions to meet quality standards. Our auditors also provide an overall risk score for your supplier.

Follow-Up:

  • Progress Monitoring: Track corrective actions through follow-up audits, desktop reviews, or phone consultations.
  • Factory Improvement Services: Manage the implementation of the CAP through our improvement services.
How it works

When to Schedule a Technical Audit

Effective scheduling of technical audits is crucial to ensure optimal outcomes. Consider the following:

Supplier Onboarding

Schedule audits when partnering with new suppliers to verify their capabilities and adherence to your standards.

Periodic Reviews

Conduct regular audits to ensure ongoing compliance and performance improvement.

Pre-Contract Evaluation

Perform audits before finalizing contracts to assess potential suppliers’ quality systems and capabilities.

Post-Issue Review

Schedule audits if quality issues or non-compliance have been identified to address and resolve them promptly.

Common Questions

Most Popular Questions.

Find answers to frequently asked questions about our inspection services, including processes, benefits, and scheduling tips.

Technical audits are important for verifying supplier capabilities, managing quality risks, improving standards, and ensuring consistent quality across multiple suppliers.

Schedule audits when onboarding new suppliers, conducting periodic reviews, before finalizing contracts, or following quality issues.

Our audits cover quality management systems, resource management, stock management, incoming material inspection, production processes, pre-shipment quality control, and more.

If issues are identified, a Corrective Action Plan (CAP) is provided to your supplier, outlining necessary actions to address the issues.

Yes, audits can be tailored to meet the specific needs of your industry, product, or in-house quality requirements.