Supply Chain Assurance
Assessments for Confidence, Business Advantage and Improvement of your Supply Chain

When it fails, your supply chain represents a major risk to your business delivery, competitive edge and corporate reputation.

Managed effectively, independent assurance of your supply chain can be a means to building significant business advantage, reducing cost, increasing satisfaction and loyalty while expanding your capability.

What is Supply Chain Assurance?
LRQA assessment services help ensure your supply chain is effective, efficient, and capable of delivering your requirements. Our assessments ensure your suppliers are consistently delivering to your prescribed standard or to selected third party standards; and our diagnostic and improvement surveys can help you understand specific risks and weaknesses in your supply chain.

Whether you have developed your own customized supply chain standards and you want someone to audit on your behalf, or you want to combine third party standards such as ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001 with your own additional requirements, LRQA provides assessment and verification services for your supply chain tailored to suit you, including:

• Compliance – verification that key requirements for your supply chain are met
• Quality – confirmation of consistency of performance to agreed standards
• Operations – assessment of supplier capability and of the effectiveness of process management
• Risk – identification and assessment of risks and risk management
• Strategy – testing the supply chain against your business goals – can your supply chain deliver your future needs?

How Independent Assurance of Your Supply Chain Benefits Your Business
The supply chain is where your business can be most vulnerable.  You depend on suppliers, subcontractors or partners to deliver to your high standards and timeframes.  But to what extent do they share your business  priorities, quality standards, ethical commitments, and environmental standards?  How efficient and capable are they or how effectively are they managing quality and cost?  You need to know on the points that matter to you.

Managed effectively, assurance of your supply chain can be a means to building significant business advantage, reducing cost, increasing satisfaction and loyalty while expanding your capability. We understand how important your supply chain is to your business, so we set up assessment services customized to suit your needs.  You can have as much or as little as you want to give you the level of assurance you need.

Why Choose LRQA?
At LRQA, we are passionate about what we do, and we understand what's at stake for your business.  We work hard to apply our expertise to make your supply chain more efficient and effective.  This is why we are one of the world's most trusted assessment and verification companies providing assurance of your supply chain and in turn, your clients.

• Reputation and Experience – LRQA has extensive work assessing third party management system based standards, such as ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 28000.  We also work on behalf of clients carrying out 2nd party audits using their own standards. We’ve issued thousands of approvals and have worked with many clients globally to assure their supply chains.

• Assessor Expertise – We use a unique qualification coding system to match our assessors’ industry knowledge and expertise with your business needs, enabling an effective and robust audit of your system.

• Global Capability – LRQA assessment teams are deployed globally through one of the world’s most comprehensive assessment resource networks.  Located on every continent, we can provide local intelligence of manufacturing and supply practices and conformance issues.  We also have the capability to follow your supply chain across country boundaries, tracking from the setting of standards, sourcing of suppliers, agreements of contract and raw material provision, through manufacturing and international logistics, to final delivery. 

Your Next Step
If you outsource your supply chain auditing, want to set up a supply chain assessment program or just want a fresh view of your strategy and operations, talk to LRQA – we know how to listen.  Contact Business Advisors today at 866-563-4654 or sales-usa@lrqa.com.

Alternatively, read more on LRQA’s Supply Chain Assurance services and experience:
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