Manufacturing and Quality Control blog

All importers can benefit from a quality audit. But don't settle for a QC company that can't adequately assess your suppliers. When it comes to supplier evaluations, there's no need for risk.

Topics: Auditing Factories, Working with Factories

The FDA is currently focused on cooperating with food importers to develop a FSVP. But enforcement will likely increase as FSVP becomes more established. There’s no better time to develop a FSVP than now.

Topics: Auditing Factories, Legal Requirements

Suppliers using prison labor, Pret a Manger deaths, robot employees, Dixon's domestic incentives and lean production in this week's roundup.

Topics: Best in Manufacturing, Social Compliance, Sourcing, Auditing Factories

A GMP audit checklist is one of the most effective tools to assess a supplier’s FDA inspection readiness. You can start preparing now! Read on for 7 essential systems to include in your audit checklist.

Topics: Auditing Factories, Working with Factories

Don’t wait until FDA inspectors arrive at your supplier’s factory to uncover GMP compliance issues. We’ve written an eBook, GMP Compliance of Foreign Suppliers: The Importer’s Guide, to help you and your suppliers assess FDA inspection readiness before it’s too late.

Topics: Auditing Factories, Working with Factories, GMP compliance

Supplier visits play a vital role in the relationship between most importers and their manufacturers. They can help facilitate a better understanding of your specific requirements, so let’s look at five reasons for or against visiting your suppliers.

Topics: Product Inspection, Auditing Factories, Working with Factories

Eighty-eight percent of 85 Chinese textile manufacturers surveyed in 2017 have had to upgrade their factory to avoid being shut down for environmental noncompliance. Do you know how to stay compliant with environmental protection laws?

Topics: Textile Products, Auditing Factories, Legal Requirements

In this blog article, find out what you can do to monitor social compliance for garment factories and avoid common problems and consequences garment importers face.

Topics: Social Compliance, Textile Products, Auditing Factories, Working with Factories, garment importers

Preventing a product defect when first beginning the supplier relationship is almost always far easier and cheaper than trying to correct it after it appears.

Topics: Product Inspection, Auditing Factories, Working with Factories

In our free eBook, learn how to limit product defects at each stage of the manufacturing process with tried-and-true methods used by experienced importers!

Topics: Product Inspection, Auditing Factories, Working with Factories, Quality Control Checklist