Quality management is essential to an organization’s good governance and helps ensure that a product is high quality and made with respect for people and the environment.
As supply chains become more internationalized and intricate, the demand for visibility and quality intensifies. Many companies have their own audit criteria, but these create considerable quality management challenges, from inconsistent assessments and a lack of visibility to duplicated efforts and a drain on resources.
Recognizing these multiple issues and the need for a common standard, amfori and partners created the amfori Quality Management Initiative (QMI). This standardized, integrated approach to quality management system audits enables non-food organizations to monitor and enhance producers’ quality management and build responsible and sustainable supply chains for global buyers, brands and retailers.
Our one-day, on-site amfori QMI audit assesses the quality management capabilities of producers in China, India, Vietnam and Thailand across four areas:
- Infrastructure, system and environment
- Product design
- Incoming materials quality control
- Production control
An all-in-one platform for monitoring and ESG data
amfori QMI audit data is stored transparently and efficiently in the amfori Sustainability Platform, alongside amfori BSCI (social) and amfori BEPI (environmental) reports. This enables members to identify best practices and quality improvement areas, along with all-in-one monitoring with environmental, social and governance (ESG) data in one place.
What are the benefits of amfori QMI?
amfori member/buyer benefits include:
- Reduce the resources needed for assessment and avoid duplicating audits
- Foster a sustainable buyer-supplier relationship through an integrated, holistic approach
- Precisely benchmark and identify sustainable producers using a common standard
- Strategically monitor multiple producers
Producer/factory benefits include:
- Avoid audit fatigue and reduce costs
- Efficiently manage multiple audits with a common tool that links to visible return on investment (ROI)
- Continuously improve quality management for sustainable production
- Effectively build and maintain customer retention, trust and satisfaction
Your qualified amfori QMI auditing partner
As the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, and a qualified amfori QMI auditing partner, we provide extensive expertise in the scheme’s requirements. We bring broad experience in management systems and quality audit services, including ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001, SA8000, amfori BSCI and amfori BEPI. Our dedicated team ensures you receive comprehensive support throughout the auditing process, empowering your organization to achieve excellence in quality management.
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Frequently asked questions (FAQs)
The audit questionnaire is for the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) non-food sector.
amfori QMI covers four crucial quality management aspects:
- Infrastructure, system and environment
- Product design
- Incoming materials quality control
- Production control
Audit results are provided transparently and efficiently on the amfori Sustainability Platform, alongside amfori BSCI (social) and amfori BEPI (environmental) reports. This allows all-in-one monitoring, with environmental, social and governance (ESG) improvement areas on one platform.
amfori:
- Standard developer and owner
- amfori sustainability operator
- Quality assurance/integrity lead and designer
amfori member (buyer):
- Service user to initiate audit and report review
- Engagement review
- Monitor producers’ performance
HKQAA:
- Industry standard partner
- Auditor training service provider
- Audit quality assurance program implementation partner
Producers (auditee):
- Service user
- Remediation
- Feedback for system enhancement
Auditing company (SGS):
- On-site audit and reporting
- Calibrate best practices and feedback for auditing tools and system enhancement
No. But its scoring system indicates the auditee’s capability across four aspects:
- Infrastructure, system and environment
- Product design
- Incoming materials quality control
- Production control
Noncompliance is subject to remediation or continuous improvement actions to be taken by the producers.
amfori QMI is a standardized, integrated approach that enables non-food sector organizations to monitor and improve producers’ quality management capabilities.
amfori BSCI was developed by the Foreign Trade Association, a leading global business association for open and sustainable trade. The scheme enables organizations to monitor and improve working conditions.
amfori BEPI provides a comprehensive range of services that enable organizations to monitor and improve the environmental performance of production sites.
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