The European Union’s RoHS (Restriction of Hazardous Substances) requires that OEMs conduct their own due diligence in validating their suppliers’ readiness for compliance. Symphony developed the RoHS Supplier Audit and Assessment Tool to give companies a best-practice approach for auditing suppliers that are critical to compliance.
This is an Excel based tool that is readily available and helps companies avoid the time and expense of creating their own audit framework for RoHS. The Supplier Audit and Assessment Tool can be used in two ways:
1. By companies to conduct an on-site audit of their suppliers’ manufacturing facilities regarding RoHS-readiness;
2. By suppliers to conduct a self-assessment of their RoHS compliance capabilities.
RoHS Supplier Audit and Assessment Tool - Sample Images
Screenshop of Audit Form:
Screenshot of performance chart summarizing deficiencies:
Symphony recommends that companies utilize this tool to conduct their own on-site audits for critical or high risk suppliers, while requesting lower risk suppliers to self-audit their manufacturing plants. This tool would be most suitable for auditing EMS manufacturing sites as well as manufacturers of sheet metal, cable assemblies, power supply assemblies, PCB assemblies, and other suppliers of systems and subassemblies.
The Supplier Audit and Assessment Tool is designed to help the users probe critical business processes in a manufacturing facility and provides built in ranking mechanisms and charts for easy reporting. The audit and its results become an important part of a company’s documentation for RoHS.
It covers key areas such as quality control, ECO management, inventory management, materials management, product manufacturing, planning and procurement, RMA services, and order fulfillment. The Supplier Audit and Assessment Tool is available for purchase online at a price of $150.00 per manufacturing site audited. It can be purchased by OEMs for conducting on-site audits or by suppliers for self-assessment purposes.
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*For questions on what constitutes a manufacturing site, or any other product questions, please contact us.