{"id":23,"date":"2011-11-04T22:22:52","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T22:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.symaconsulting.com\/blog\/?p=23"},"modified":"2011-11-13T21:01:17","modified_gmt":"2011-11-13T21:01:17","slug":"im-creating-a-new-supplier-audit-procedure-ive-been-asked-to-include-service-supppliers-sterilization-to-be-audited-every-12-months-is-this-a-reasonable-request","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.symaconsulting.com\/blog\/im-creating-a-new-supplier-audit-procedure-ive-been-asked-to-include-service-supppliers-sterilization-to-be-audited-every-12-months-is-this-a-reasonable-request\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m creating a new supplier audit procedure, I&#8217;ve been asked to include service suppliers (sterilization) to be audited every 12 month, is this a reasonable request ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sterilization process is critical in the Medical Device industry&#8230;. I do not know what industry you are working in, but if you are selling sterilized products then the sterilization process is actually an outsourcing of your organization&#8217;s manufacturing. Now how often do you internally audit your own manufacturing process ? At least once per year&#8230;..<br \/>\nIn addition sterilization is not a process that you can verify at incoming inspection, the process has to be validated, is there a revalidation schedule ?<br \/>\nSounds not like a bad idea to audit your &#8220;critical suppliers&#8221; once per year.<\/p>\n<p>SYMA consultants can help you in developing your Supplier Audit Procedure, in training your auditors and\/or providing you 2nd party audits.<br \/>\nwww.symaconsulting.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sterilization process is critical in the Medical Device industry&#8230;. I do not know what industry you are working in, but if you are selling sterilized products then the sterilization process is actually an outsourcing of your organization&#8217;s manufacturing. Now how often do you internally audit your own manufacturing process ? At least once per year&#8230;&#8230;..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quality"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.symaconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.symaconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.symaconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.symaconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.symaconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.symaconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28,"href":"https:\/\/www.symaconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions\/28"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.symaconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.symaconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.symaconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}