Review a supplier’s documentation before you get on the plane.
It is the same review, aimed outward at a quality system you have never seen and cannot walk.
The situation
A tier-two supplier sends two hundred records and a folder of procedures ahead of an on-site visit. You have a day to prepare and no way to read all of it.
The same supplier gives two different answers
A questionnaire records what a supplier says about its own procedure. Reading the procedure against the standard shows whether it actually meets the obligation, and the two answers often disagree.
Three checkboxes the supplier filled in about themselves.
Whether a corrective action has to be verified as effective before the record can be closed, not only implemented.
“Corrective actions are closed once the containment action is implemented and recorded.”
The same CAPA procedure they answered yes for, read against the standard.
The questionnaire qualified the supplier, and reading the same procedure produced a major nonconformity.
They send what they have; you read all of it
Supplier documents arrive in whatever structure they keep. Procedures and records are reviewed against the applicable standard — not a sample of them, and not only the ones you had time for.
The exceptions arrive cited
Each finding names the clause, the document, the page and the paragraph. You walk in with a list of things to ask about and the evidence already open.
The visit is spent on what documents cannot show
The documentation half is already done and defensible, so the on-site hours go to process observation, operator interviews and the floor instead of paperwork.
The record keeps the citation and the verdict
Each finding carries the passage it stands on and the decision your auditor made about it — exportable, and legible to someone who was not in the room.
See it on a supplier’s documents
Bring a folder from a real supplier pack and we will run it live on a thirty-minute call.