What is Factory Audit?

An audit can refer to any kind of official inspection. Most often when people talk about audits they’re referring to quality control checkpoints.

Factory audit in Vietnam is an activity to help buyer/customer quickly understand vendor/supplier’s status. An audit can discover supplier’s general information, capability, quality control, corporation social reponsibility (CSR) program, etc.

Factory audit gives you a chance to review and evaluate your supplier. While it’s also an improvement opportunity for supplier through audit finding issues.

When do you need to Audit a Factory?

• New supplier: When you plan to have new cooperation with new supplier
• Regularly: Anually, Quarterly, Monthly: In order to ensure your suppliers are able to deliver consistent quality products over the time while still maintaining good practice on safety, environmental and social matters

Benefits of Factory Audit in Vietnam

• Clearly understand supplier status before starting any business
• Ensure your supplier’s sourcing policies comply with yours
• Sustainable development your supply chain

Our Factory Audit Programs

At VN Inspects, we generally provide two type of audit program includes:

• General factory audit covering: Company profile (General information, management system, certificate,…), 5M1E (Man, Machine, Material, Method, Measurement, and Environment)
• Technical audit covering: Company profile (General information, management system, certificate,…). The rest of it is focus on process control and quality control. Our auditor will check and measure the actual process’s output against to its SPECs, and verify if supplier is doing as what they had written down on documents

Beside of that, we also support customer own checklist and flexibility to fit any specific requirements from customer.

Procedure of Factory Audit in Vietnam

Customer booking an Factory Audit schedule with VN Inspects / As well inform supplier at the same time -> VN Inspects confirms the schedule and assigns to auditor -> Auditor performces onsite audit at supplier end -> Supplier acknowledges and signs on audit report -> VN Inspects sends audit report to customer -> Follow up audit, monitoring if supplier has made improvements according to audit finding issues (customers follow up or can either assign this task to us).

Factory Audit Pricing

At VN Inspects, we offer $359 / Man-day. It is All-inclusive price (no more extra cost).

With $359 you will get:

• All-inclusive pricing in anywhere factory within Vietnam
• No extra charge for auditing overtime, audit at the weekend
• Full time professional and experienced auditors
• Free technical support before – during – and after audit
• Details audit report available within 36 hours

Contact us to know more information, booking an audit schedule, or would like to require a sample checklist.

• Related service: Pre-Shipment Inspection (PSI)

FAQ on Manufacturing Audit in Vietnam