30. April 2021
There are a number of challenges to overcome in international procurement, such as cultural and language barriers, lack of customer knowledge about suppliers, insufficient communication and contact with suppliers, and lack of professional staff for process audits. Process and product audits are performed to assess the quality capability of a product/product group and its processes, during product development or serial production development or service implementation. Unlike a system audit, which evaluates the completeness and effectiveness of the basic requirements of the quality management system, the product audit is used to evaluate the quality characteristics of product.