Manufacturing and Quality Control blog

Why should you make social compliance a priority for your suppliers? How effective is auditing at making sure your suppliers are compliant? Just because more factories have been audited does not mean that the conditions at Chinese factories have actually improved though. Now you, as a buyer, need to decide if you will force your suppliers to actually improve.

Topics: Social Compliance

As a buyer of imported goods, have you considered the possibility of corruption making its way into your supply chain? Corruption can take many forms, but it’s often during product inspections where buyers show real concern.

Topics: Manufacturing Tips & Advice

If you've ever bought products made overseas you may have wondered how inspectors decide how many units to inspect. You may even have heard the term “AQL” thrown around regarding quality control and wondered if you should be using AQL for inspection.

Topics: Product Inspection, Acceptable Quality Level (AQL), aql for inspections

Let's imagine that you import electric blenders for sale in the UK market. There are a host of standard quality and safety checks that you would normally have your third-party inspection company perform on your behalf. So the question becomes... can your third-party inspection partner help you with product certification?

Topics: Quality Q&A