Supplier Inspections, Audits, and Compliance Tracking

Why Should You Attend:

The webinar is an overview of three of the most critical issues that a compliance group in a company can encounter. Without an effective process to address each of these three critical factors, a company can be highly vulnerable to organizations, suppliers, and factories that strive to minimize cost while maximizing risk to their customers.

The key points to be covered for these three critical issues include:

• Supplier Inspections: Will cover both domestically produced and imported products. Though imported products (especially from Asia) typically pose more risk and potential for compliance issues, domestically produced products are by no means risk-free. This topic will be explored in depth with a process recommended to address prior to and after the start of production.
• Audits: Especially internal audits will be discussed in light of the processes and systems that need to be established, maintained, and analyzed continually to insure that the company is remains in compliance with current regulations. The most daunting event for a company CEO is to see his company in the headlines for a compliance issue because the internal processes are based on outdated regulations.
• Compliance Tracking: Post-qualification and post-startup, how does a company continue to analyze and track their suppliers’ compliance to specifications? It is easy to measure the physical characteristics of a product, but how about the non-measurable areas such as social and quality systems compliance? This session will analyze how to keep the product and support systems in compliance.

Areas Covered in the Webinar:

• Supplier inspection process and approach
• Forms for documenting compliance at supplier’s end
• How to audit your internal processes for continuous improvement
• Approach to insure initial and ongoing supplier/factory compliance
• How domestic and import factories differ
• Why there is more to cost than the product quote

Who Will Benefit:

• Vice President of Quality and Operations
• Compliance Managers
• QA/QC Personnel
• Factory Personnel
• Supervisors of personnel who conduct audits
• Anyone related to supply chain, sourcing, purchasing

Instructor Profile:

Formerly the vice president and head of R&D/quality for Elmer’s Products, Inc., Richard Maksimoski has over 30 years of R&D experience at a broad range of CPG companies and industries including: Elmer’s Products (stationery, toy, office, hardware); Scotts Miracle-Gro (lawn and garden, pesticides); Jergens/Kao Brands (skin care, cosmetics, food); Kraft Foods (full range of food products); Procter & Gamble (cosmetics, hair care).

Mr. Maksimoski formed Maximum C/Q, LLC in July 2009 as a compliance, quality, and new business development consulting firm to help clients develop their growth strategy, manage project execution, source their production needs, and enable complete confidence in the compliance and quality needs to launch products.

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