Vendor Assessments & Supplier Audits

Ensuring Quality, Compliance & Efficiency

SQS provides independent, risk-based vendor assessments and supplier audits to support confident supplier selection and robust supply chain assurance. We evaluate a supplier’s capability to meet contractual, technical, and quality requirements, alongside key ESG factors including environmental performance, health and safety, and governance.

Our clear, evidence-based insights and practical recommendations help clients select suppliers that deliver reliably, responsibly, and to the highest standards.

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Vendor Assessments: Why SQS?

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SQS Vendor Assessments

SQS vendor assessments are essential to ensure quality standards are met, and should be considered when: 1. Looking to place an order with a new supplier. 2. Audit an existing supplier prior to start of a new project. 3. Confirm their infrastructure, QMS, Qualified personnel, workload and orderbook. 4. Thier ability to fulfill the order with regards to both Quality and Delivery Time.

SQS Quality Assurance Services

SQS can provide quality assurance services in over 48 countries to all sectors, ensuring that quality standards are met via: 1. Conducting ISO9001 Audits & Vendor Assessments 2. Internal ISO company audits 3. Consultancy in designing and developing Quality Management Systems (QMS) to meet the requirements of ISO9001

SQS Audits & Reports

SQS provide vendor/supplier Audits, plus Vendor Assessments to all sectors. Our Auditors will use either the clients project specific format or if this is not available SQS has designed its own formats for both Audits & Vendor Assessments. Reports for SQS auditing services are issued to clients with all supporting documents and photographs as standard. - Quality System Audit Reports are issued within 5 working days

SERVICES

Vendor Assessments and Supplier Assurance

Reducing supplier risk across capability, quality, and delivery

SQS provides independent, risk‑based vendor assessments to enable informed supplier selection and robust supply chain assurance. Our assessments evaluate a supplier’s capability to deliver against contractual, technical, and quality requirements, including management systems, production and process controls, inspection and test planning, resource competency, capacity, and schedule resilience. We review quality planning, traceability, control of non‑conformances, corrective actions, and continuous improvement processes to determine delivery reliability and execution risk.

ESG performance is assessed as an integral component of supplier due diligence. This includes evaluation of environmental management practices, energy use, emissions and waste controls, health and safety systems, labour standards, ethical practices, and governance frameworks, aligned with client ESG objectives and applicable regulatory or reporting standards.

Where required, SQS can analyse and compare the carbon footprint implications of selecting specific suppliers, supporting lower‑carbon procurement decisions and helping clients understand the embodied and operational emissions associated with their supply chain choices. Our assessments deliver clear, evidence‑based findings and practical recommendations, enabling clients to select suppliers that can deliver safely, responsibly, and to the required quality standards.

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