What is supplier certification?

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Supplier Certification

After supplier selection, the next step is the supplier certification process.

In fact, supplier certification process starts only after the supplier begins shipment of the product to the organisation.

Some of the benefits of supplier certification are:

  1. Elimination of receiving inspection, that allows the supplier to ship directly to stock.
  2. Creation of a customer-supplier partnership.
  3. Reduced number of suppliers, that reduces the overhead costs.

The supplier certification process has been described by the supplier technical committee of ASQ on eight certification criteria and they are listed in Table 1.

Table 1. Supplier certification criteria
1. The customer and supplier shall have agreed upon specifications that are mutually developed, justifiable, and not ambiguous.
2. The supplier shall have no product-related lot rejection for a significant period of time (say, one year or significant number of lots).
3. The supplier shall have no non-product-related rejections for a stated period of time or number of lots.
4. The supplier shall have no negative non-product-related incidents for a stated period or number of lots. This criterion covers incidents or problems that occur even though inspection and tests showed conformance to specifications.
5. The supplier shall have a fully-documented quality system such as ISO 9000 or QS 9000.
6. The supplier shall have successfully passed an on-site system evaluation. This evaluation could be by third party such as an ISO 9000 registrar or by the customer (second party).
7. The supplier must conduct inspections and tests.
8. The supplier shall have the ability to provide timely inspection and test data because this documentation is necessary when the product arrives.
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