AUDITING

In principle, there are two relevant situations:

Your company is aware of the benefits of an effective quality and environmental management and is planning to be certified soon according to the standard DIN EN ISO 9001 and/ or DIN EN ISO 14001.

Or alternatively, your company is already certified according to the standards listed above and the next monitoring or repeat audit (re-audit) is ahead of you. In both cases, the following questions will arise:

Is your company sufficiently prepared for these audits?

Are you aware of the changes to the current versions of DIN EN ISO 9001:2015 and DIN EN ISO 14001:2015 compared with the previous editions of 2008?

Many raw materials and intermediates are now purchased, a large part of these products originate from European and Asian suppliers. These suppliers often guarantee the quality of their products based on self-written certificates. But the following question frequently arises for the purchaser of these goods:

Can you really trust these supplier documents? How reliable is the supplier really working?

In these cases, product, supplier as well as compliance audits can help you to judge correctly the quality capability of your suppliers. Furthermore, it has been observed for some time that more and more companies are carrying out supplier audits before an initial order is planed with a new supplier. In such cases a successful completed supplier audit can open new doors for more successful business relationships.

QERA-Consulting can draw on many years of experience in this field. Thanks to its numerous business and family relationships, particularly to the People’s Republic of China, you can benefit from our effective assistance in carrying out these special audits.

Principles such as independence, confidentiality and integrity have top priority at QERA-Consulting. Accordingly, it is often more helpful and results-oriented to assess business processes with an impartial view from outside the company.

Our audit services at a glance:

• Preparation and implementation of internal audits (1st party audits) of quality management
  systems (QMS) according to DIN EN ISO 9001:2015 and environmental management
  systems (EMS) according to DIN EN ISO 14001:2015 by application of DIN EN ISO 19011:
  2011/ Corrigendum 1: 2013 (Auditing of Management Systems)

• Implementation of compliance audits (1st, 2nd party audits) with focus on
  chemical and environmental regulations as well as on customer-defined requirements in
  the sense of chemical restriction lists (Restricted Substances Lists, RSLs)

• Implementation of supplier audits (2nd party audits) in Europe and the People’s
  Republic of China with the focus on companies from the chemical industry as well as paper
  and textile industries according to IAF/ EA Codes 4 (textiles and clothing), 7 (paper), 12
  (chemical industry) and NACE-Code 20 (manufacture of chemical products)

• Preparation as well as support of monitoring and certification audits (3rd party audits)
  of quality management systems (QMS) according to DIN EN ISO 9001:2015 and
  environmental management systems (EMS) according to DIN EN ISO 14001:2015 by
  application of DIN EN ISO 19011:2011/ Corrigendum 1: 2013 (auditing of management
  systems)