Save time, energy and resources with our shared audits.
Tired of receiving numerous customers’ audit requests? Did you know that you can reduce the number of audits performed at your site?
You probably have a multitude of clients, each with their legitimate needs to evaluate the conformity of the products that you manufacture or the services you provide to them.
You probably have a multitude of clients, each with their legitimate needs to evaluate the conformity of the products that you manufacture or the services you provide to them.
Save time, energy and resources with our shared audits service. We will perform a single audit and represent a group of your clients during this single audit. We take care to meet our clients’ specific requirements and reporting needs whilst minimizing your demands on time to host multiple audits. Contact us to coordinate your customers’ audits – this process is free of charge for the audited site.
Intertek are leaders and innovators in shared audits with more than 15 years of experience.
Ask for the coordination of a shared audit of your site
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A shared audit is a scheduled audit that is performed by Intertek on behalf of several of your customers. The shared audit combines different customer requests into one audit. Consequently, common services and areas are audited only once. We can extend the scope of the audit, which means that more products are audited in this single audit.
A shared audit saves you time by avoiding multiple customer audits.
Each customer represented by Intertek may ask for specific questions, which will be kept confidential and communicated only to the client concerned. A customer participating in a shared audit does not know the name of the other participating clients.
Each client will receive a report tailored to their products, containing answers to their specific questions. A shared audit offers each of your clients a quality and relevant audit covering the same requirements as an individual audit.
One of your clients can join the audit during its entire life cycle. We adapt to different requests. After the audit, your client can request an existing audit report purchase.
We all have a responsibility to protect the future of the planet. Requesting a shared audit for your customers is an eco-responsible approach. Each shared audit avoids multiple business trip.
Intertek will manage the coordination of the audit with your customers.
No. As soon as a customer requests to join an audit, Intertek will contact you to validate with you if they can participate in the audit and verify with you the products involved.
Intertek will not accept any client on an audit without your prior written permission. We will never share any information without your express consent and respect your confidentiality guidelines.
Transparency with our stakeholders is one of our core values.
If you request a shared audit for your site, Intertek takes care of everything. We manage the communication and documentation with your clients for the organization of the audit.
All your customers’ audits are performed on the same day and your teams are less disturbed. Common services and processes are audited only once.
If we represent 10 of your customers, you avoid 9 audits and therefore save at least 9 days.
We will always ask for your approval on the list of customers to be represented by Intertek during the shared audit. The audit agenda will be sent to you before the audit.
By performing a shared audits of your site, you act directly as an eco-responsible company by contributing to the reduction of on-site travel. Each shared audit allows you to avoid one trip. Since the creation of the shared audit activity, Intertek has avoided 7500 trips in 15 years.
After an audit on your site has been performed, a client may request the purchase an existing audit report, especially if you do not have a date available for a new audit in the time period requested.
Intertek creates a new audit report specific to this customer, containing only its products and ensuring confidentiality with other customers. Once validated, this specific and adapted report will be sent to the customer.
Intertek always asks for your approval before starting an existing audit report purchase process and checks which products were covered.
By approving the purchase of existing audit reports, you act directly as an eco-responsible company, contributing to the reduction of on-site travel. Each report purchase avoids one trip. Since the creation of the shared audit activity, Intertek has avoided 7500 trips in 15 years.
If a company wishes to participate in an audit or to purchase the report of an audit already performed, we always ask for your consent and will validate together the scope.
We will never share any information without your express consent and respect your confidentiality guidelines. Intertek will not accept any client on an audit without your prior written permission.
Customers participating in an audit or purchasing a report have no information about other clients represented in the audit and do not have access to the other client-specific requirements and responses.
If you wish, Intertek can have any client participating in the audit or purchasing an audit sign a CDA. We take care of everything for you.
Transparency with our stakeholders is one of our core values.
Let us coordinate your customer audits.
Intertek does not charge the audited site for any services related to the shared audit. For the auditee, the performance of a shared audit is free of charge.
As a third party, we remain independent of the audited site to avoid any potential conflict of interest.
Intertek performs audits according to more than 25 auditing standards and covering pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, medical devices and food supplements industry.
