Social Auditing,an Essential Approach for the Control of your Supply Chain and Reinforce Brand Protection

The objective of a social audit is to provide an unbiased image of supplier organization and practices according to local laws and international standard as well as the buyer's internal code of conduct. In addition to this analysis our team will also define a corrective actions plan. Our specialists can also help you to implement monitoring and follow-up to this list of actions. If you wish, our auditors can be part of the change management process by delivering in-house training.

Thanks to this continuous monitoring of your pool of suppliers, your company can protect its brand image and improve its competitiveness. Managing your social risk should bring associated costs saving and should also foster long term cooperation with a selected pool of suppliers.

Since 2007, API audits has developed professional solutions in technical and social auditing, and has recently acquired global recognition in the field by becoming one of the five auditing firms to be accredited by the ICS initiative. This initiative is led by France's largest retailers such as Carrefour, Auchan and Casino.

Why choose API for your factory social audit? Our approach to deliver an unbiased, comprehensive and relevant analysis of supplier:

• Because we maintain a close relationship with our customers, we can deliver a trully dedicated level of service, more specifically thanks to:
  • • 1. Tailor made and responsive solutions that larger companies cannot provide.
      2. API Audit never hesitates to go an extra mile to accompany our customers.
      3. API aims to act as an integrated part of our customer's quality managment system.
         

• Because we believe that an audit result has no value without a genuine impartiality, we place a strong focus on ethics. This is why in API has developed:

1. 1. • • A code-of-conduct with ethical values beyond the requirement of accreditation schemes
        • Staff training, conitnuous supervision and random inspections to ensure adherence to the company's code of conduct.
        • Strong procedure for monitoring auditor integrity.

Because we believe that only a strong local regulations and practices related expertise can provide added value to our customers, we place a strong emphasis on training and maintaining a highly skilled team of auditors:

1. • • • Mix of international ( mostly European ) and local staff in auditing teams.
       • Auditor selection based on skills, knowledge and experiences.
       • Strong in-house training and expertise follow-up procedures.
       • Technical manager involved in European standardization committees.

Because we believe that our size and flexibility allows us to provide you with the best value for money, we have developed a scalable and adapted price grid to fit our customers’ needs:

• • • • A pricing system per man/day that is very straight forward and transparent
      • We take pride in ensuring that no customer is ever overcharged
      • Existing infra-structure and economies of scale are attractive to large volume customers