QMS Component: Supplier Quality Assurance

Records that a VTA approval holder hold that assure that the quality of the goods or service provided by suppliers have been assessed regularly. This information is generally used to develop and maintain the approved vendors register.

Supplier Quality Assurance describes the process you use to determine a supplier’s quality assurance. This may simply be requiring ISO certification or establishing a supplier ranking based on a set of criteria. Factors that may be considered include:

• quality of goods and services provided by individual suppliers
• timeliness of the supply goods and services provided
• identification of issues related to goods and services supplied once a trailer has been provided.

Once a ranking is established for the supplier, the process should link this information to the approved vendors register.