More and more retailers and brands require their suppliers to conduct factory audit and then assess if these suppliers are in compliane with their procurement standard before placing orders.

As oversea importers, you always hope your factories can smoothly pass these audits,for example, social compliance audit, SER audit,ES audit,SA8000 audit,QMS audit,techinial audit,C-TPAT audit,security audit, and then get orders quickly. But in fact,many factories can not pass audit for several times so that importers can not get orders at all.

How to make your China factories pass these audit easily?

Below steps can be for your reference:

1.Search,screen and approve potential suppliers according to your clients' requirements in terms of social compliance,quality management and security.Too bad factories maybe waste your time and influence your image in your clients' mind.If possible,on-site pre-audit often does work.In addition,normally,audited factories can easily pass future factory audit.Too bad to pass; 

2.Establish long-term business relationship so that your China suppliers place great emphasis and are willing to cooperate.Otherwise,they often refuse factory audit by your clients or appointed 3rd party auditing company. No cooperation, no pass;

3.Frankly communicate the audit requiremment,audit procedure,audit preparation,and difficulty involed with factories so that they can understand. Never cheat your factories. In China, some trading companies are afraid of being rejected by factories, they cheat factories and tell them factory audit is very easy and what factory should do is only audit reception. Cheating leads to no pass.;

4.Stress the importance of factory audit and necessarity of corrective action so that factory can make actual improvement step by step and finally meet clients' requirements and pass factory audit.No correction, no pass;

5.Rewards for factories passing factory audit.More orders and better price given to these good factories.Stimulation can lead to factory audit pass;

6.Factory audit training and factory audit consulting is necessary for some factories,especially for those which prepare factory audit for the first time. Although some factories are willing to cooperate, but they do not know how to prepare for the audit at all.Importers should provide relevant training or appoint external qualified consulting units to provide such training to factories.No training, no pass.

MEAN-HOW provides one-stop China souring service to importers.In addition,we also provide factory pre-audit and factory audit consulting to factories.