Ecosysmis supports you in implementing your responsible sourcing policy:
Understand and control the supply chain
What is the purpose of a supplier audit like SMETA?
Unfair or unsafe business practices, cases of corruption, or environmental negligence within the supply chain can, when exposed, severely damage a company’s reputation and hinder its growth—or worse.
Ecosysmis helps you prepare either to undergo an audit at your client’s request or to conduct an audit campaign with your suppliers.
Benefits for your company from a SMETA audit
We can help you to:
- Improve your ethical and responsible business practices
- Increase your profitability
- Save time and resources
- Enhance supplier engagement
- Boost productivity
- Reduce reputational risk
- Gain a competitive advantage
- Foster collaboration and reduce unnecessary duplication of activities
The solution for supply chain management
With Sedex, we offer you an efficient and straightforward way to manage the ethical and responsible practices within your supply chain.
By allowing suppliers to share the same information with multiple clients, the SMETA audit reduces the number of audits required and enables both parties to focus on the improvements to be made.
(1) SEDEX: Supplier Ethical Data Exchange – a platform for sharing suppliers’ ethical data
(2) SMETA: Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit
Training for SMETA Audits
This training is designed to provide you with the skills necessary for auditing social management systems (SMS).
If you have already conducted an ISO 9000, ISO 14001, or OHSAS 18001 audit, this social systems audit training will expand your expertise to understand the verification of social management system criteria. It prepares your company thoroughly for the SMETA audit.
By the end of this training, you will gain:
- of the SMETA audit and certification process
- to organise third-party audits in accordance with SA 8000 requirements
