Pack 8: Supplier Management eDocs

The Standard requires supplier management of materials, traded materials, traded products, outsourced products and services. This is to ensure that the material or service provided doesn’t pose a risk to the finished product. A robust supplier management system needs to look at not just the supplier, but also the material or service itself and the inherent risks it may bring with it. Having a really clear purpose for management of suppliers, which has defined inputs and outputs of each stage of the risk assessment is essential.

Each material needs risk assessing before it can be approved. The pack provides you with a risk assessment process, which results in a risk rating that you can apply to your supplier risk assessment. The straightforward method make the complicated subject of material risk assessment – simple.

Once the risk assessment is complete, the next step is to approve each supplier.  Material approval isn’t a straightforward subject, so knowing what options you have to approve each material is confusing. The procedure in the pack provides you with a simple process for approving your materials. If you need to complete a supplier assessment questionniare or an audit of your supplier, templates are included for those too; for food, packaging, storage, distribution, labs, laundry suppliers and consultants.

Monitoring of suppliers is an aspect of the process that’s often overlooked. The system provided will ensure that suppliers are constantly reviewed and the results of the review, are fed back into the system, providing a continous loop of improvement.

Finally, the pack includes a completed severity risk assessment and 18 pages of completed material risk assessment. So you can use these for inspiration, or select and adapt them to suit your needs. Saving you loads of time.

The simplicity of this pack, will ensure that you have your suppliers in order in no time at all and you’ll breeze through your external audits.