{"id":3219,"date":"2012-11-01T19:35:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T19:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/2012\/11\/01\/more-surprise-supplier-audit-ideas\/"},"modified":"2021-07-08T06:18:10","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T10:18:10","slug":"more-surprise-supplier-audit-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/more-surprise-supplier-audit-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"More Surprise Supplier Audit Ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hope that you have enjoyed the article \u201cSurprise Supplier Audits:\u00a0 Pros, Cons, Ideas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t miss updates on Procurement &amp; Supply Chain, Subscribe here!<\/p>\n<p>In the article, I\u2019ve provided some ideas about how to best implement surprise supplier audits.\u00a0 I am using this additional space to share even more ideas on the topic.\u00a0 So here you go:<\/p>\n<p><!-- &gt; 800x600 &lt;![endif]--><!-- &gt; Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 &lt;![endif]--><!-- &gt; &lt;![endif]--><!-- &gt;&lt;![endif]--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">The concept of surprise audits should be presented to your supplier as a standard business process that is performed with randomly selected suppliers.\u00a0 This can help ensure compliance while not making your suppliers feel that you are suspicious of them.\u00a0 This premise is why companies do random drug testing of their employees \u2013 so those employees called upon for a test don\u2019t feel that they are the target of suspicion.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">Ensure that you work with your suppliers to ensure some type of security pre-clearance so that your surprise visits aren\u2019t met with uncomfortable and insurmountable refusals for your team to enter the suppliers\u2019 facilities. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Be sure to subscribe to this blog, or check back soon, for a \u201cProcurement Parable\u201d about surprise supplier audits.<\/p>\n<p>If you linked to this post from the Pros, Cons, Ideas article, click here to return to that article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hope that you have enjoyed the article \u201cSurprise Supplier [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":4130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-procurement"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.4 (Yoast SEO v19.13) - 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