Second-Party Auditing for Your Supply Chain

Get Your Supply Chain under Control With Second-Party Auditing

Expanding your business globally brings a new set of challenges, especially when managing suppliers and facilities located around the world. Second-party auditing allows you to identify areas of inefficiency or waste in your supply-chain, as well as potential risks to your business operations. Compliance issues with industry standards or legal regulations can severely damage a company's reputation with consumers, and TÜV Rheinland helps clients avoid these pitfalls by providing professional independent second-party auditing. Our team of experts evaluate supply chains based on clients' unique requirements, making our auditing services valuable to companies around the world.

Benefits at a Glance

With second-party supply chain audits from TÜV Rheinland, you can:

  • Validate the strength of your supply chain against strict requirements
  • Protect the reputation of your organization
  • Minimize the risk of product failures, product recalls and other compliance issues
  • Reduce the risk of your company's liability with documented safety standards
  • Gain access to our worldwide network of experts and services

Our Services for Second-Party Auditing

TÜV Rheinland provides second-party supply chain audits, according to customer specific requirements and other relevant management system standards. Our experienced auditors evaluate supplier performance, to effectively assist customer find out systemic issues, process weakness and quality risks. This is an important approach to help understand and control supply risk. The benefits of second-party audits include:

  • Protecting yourself against any form of damage to your reputation by limiting product recalls and compliance issues.
  • Evaluate suppliers and supply chain management to your companies proprietary requirements
  • Limiting demand on your internal resources, saving you time and money

Frequently Used International Systems

Some of the frequently used international systems for 2nd party audit includes ISO 9001:2008, ISO 14001, TS 16949, VDA 6.3, OHSAS 18001 and SA 8000 (BSCI) as well as TÜV Rheinland STAR, a unique product developed by TÜV Rheinland for the evaluation of company sustainability.