Supplier audits give you an independent view of how a supplier operates. QIMA audits manufacturing capacity, quality management systems, structural safety, social compliance, environmental practices, and supply chain security, helping you identify risks and follow up on corrective actions.
Supplier audits help you see whether a supplier can meet your quality, ethical, environmental, and operational requirements before risks affect your products or brand.
Supplier audits play a crucial role in achieving this goal by providing comprehensive assessments of suppliers' operations, systems, and adherence to industry standards. QIMA offers a wide range of supplier audit solutions to help businesses mitigate risks, maintain product quality and uphold their brand reputation.
Independent auditors visit your supplier’s manufacturing facilities to assess the areas that matter to your supply chain. Depending on your objectives, a supplier audit can examine manufacturing capacity, quality management systems, structural safety, social compliance, environmental impact, and supply chain security.
Audits can follow international standards, your in-house policies, or QIMA’s best-in-class protocol. You can audit existing suppliers or assess potential suppliers before adding them to your supply chain.
QIMA’s supplier audit programs include:
Each QIMA audit report includes a practical Corrective Action Plan (CAP) with clear objectives and timelines for improvement. You can track supplier progress through regular follow-up audits and monitor audit activity through QIMA’s online platform.
This gives your team a consistent record of findings, corrective actions and follow-up activity across individual suppliers or global audit programs.
Brands sourcing from 50, 100, or several hundred manufacturing sites need a program that runs consistently across countries, languages, and regulatory environments. QIMA's supplier audit network spans 100+ countries with 6,000+ field and lab experts, giving global sourcing teams the reach to audit every site in scope on a single contract, single reporting standard, and single dashboard.
Multi-site programs run through the same customizable compliance dashboard used for single-site clients - every audit, every corrective action plan, every follow-up visible in one view. Suppliers can be ranked by performance, sourcing regions compared, and emerging risks flagged before they escalate. Auditors are local to the supplier's country, so cultural context, local labor law, and language are handled by people on the ground rather than remote reviewers.
More than 30,000 businesses use QIMA services, supported by an NPS of 72. QIMA’s Consumer Products offering covers supplier audits across 100+ countries.
At QIMA, we go beyond supplier audits to provide comprehensive programs for continuous improvement. Our worker voice services and grievance management programs foster open communication and empower workers to share feedback and concerns. We are committed to creating fair and ethical working environments.
Additionally, we offer Self Assessment Questionnaires (SAQs) as a risk management tool to gather worker feedback and identify areas for improvement. These initiatives ensure proactive engagement with workers, effective grievance resolution, and enhanced social responsibility.
QIMA offers an intelligent online platform to help you seamlessly book, modify, and schedule follow-up audits, as well as make secure payments with just a few clicks. Our customizable dashboard provides a comprehensive view of your supplier data, enabling you to track progress, identify trends, and make informed decisions in real time.
By utilizing QIMA dashboards, you can ensure smooth operations, maintain consistent standards, improve quality, and drive continuous improvement throughout your supplier relationships.
With our presence in 100 countries worldwide and regulatory expertise in all the regions we serve, you can confidently leverage QIMA's supplier audit services at every stage of your supplier relationships.
A supplier audit is an independent assessment of a supplier’s manufacturing facilities, systems, and operating practices. It can cover manufacturing capacity, quality management, structural safety, social compliance, environmental impact or supply chain security.
Supplier audits help you identify operational, ethical, and compliance risks before they affect product quality, delivery or brand reputation. They also give your team documented findings and corrective actions to follow up.
QIMA offers manufacturing, ethical, structural, environmental, and C-TPAT audits, as well as food supplier audits. Audits can follow international standards, your internal policies, or QIMA’s best-in-class protocol.
Yes. QIMA’s supplier audit network covers more than 100 countries, allowing global sourcing teams to manage audits across multiple manufacturing sites through one audit program and dashboard.
QIMA audit reports include a Corrective Action Plan with objectives and timelines for improvement. You can track supplier progress and arrange follow-up audits to verify continued compliance or improvement.
Tell us where your suppliers operate, which risks you need to assess and whether you're auditing one site or a global supplier network.
