Social Compliance for Small and Medium Enterprises

1. SOCIAL
COMPLIANCE
AUDITS FOR
ECOMMERCE
AND
RETAILERS
Collaborate ONLY with Socially Responsible
Factories & Pass Your Retail Audit
Social compliance is rapidly becoming a top priority
for manufacturers and large retailers. With more
than 3 years of experience with social compliance
audits, consulting and training, Accredium reviews
all findings in detail with both you and the factory,
and works with factory management to quickly
rectify non-compliant areas.

2. BUSINESS CHALLENGE FOR ERETAILERS AND ECOMMERCE
If you source products from locations
where you have no physical presence,
you may face numerous risks
associated with your sourcing:
How can you be sure the factory you
are sourcing from has the capacity and
capability to meet your needs?
How can you validate the products
being manufactured are aligned to your
specifications?
How can you make sure the factories
adhere to local social accountability
requirements?

3. THE BENEFITS OF WORKING
WITH ACCREDIUM
Avoid irreparable damage to your business’
reputation caused by working with non-socially
compliant factories in India
Identify specific areas of concern and deficiencies
that require corrective action
Train factory management and ensure that it can
implement corrective action plans
Maintain regular email and phone communication
with the factory to ensure that corrective actions are
in progress
Follow-up with future site visits to reassess the
compliance level and check the progress

4. DISCOVER OUR SOCIAL
COMPLIANCE AUDITING BEST
PRACTICES
Accredium has worked with hundreds of factories in
India to ensure that their practices, facilities, and
paperwork are consistent with the requirements of major
codes such as BSCI, ETI, FTA, SEDEX-SMETA & retailers
such as Wal-Mart, Target and Disney
Our standard factory audit can be customized to your
requirements, but is typically comprised and priced at
two levels. A simple Standard Factory Audit and a QHSE
Factory Audit.

5. THE STANDARD FACTORY AUDIT INCLUDES THE
FOLLOWING:
Factory ownership
Legal operating status
Confirm facilities locations
Business size and employee count
General production capabilities
The QHSE Factory Audit includes the above, as well as
a department-by-department review and verification
of:
• Facilities condition including structure,
number of workers, labor law compliance, area of
workshop, etc.
• Evaluate the manufacturer’s production
system, including working condition, facilities,
machines, QHSE capability and environmental control
system.
• Evaluate the quality system to ensure the
presence of inspectors and correct methodology for
quality control
• Evaluate the management capability
• Evaluate the financial condition, including
registered capital, bank credit grad

6. OUR SOCIAL COMPLIANCE AUDIT INCLUDES EVALUATIONS OF YOUR
SUPPLIER’S COMPLIANCE WITH:
Land Usage Rights
Child labor laws
Legal Licenses and Permits
Forced labor laws
Discrimination laws
Minimum wage laws
Worker living standards
Working hours
Overtime wages
Social benefits
Safety and health
Protection of the environment

7. HOW CAN SOCIAL COMPLIANCE BENEFIT YOUR ORGANIZATION?
More importantly, Accredium will work hand-in-hand with your
team and the factories that supply you to ensure that suppliers are
engaged in fair and legal employment practices, are not causing
unacceptable damage to the environment, and are organizations
that you would be proud to call partners.
Our integrated Inspection, Audit and Social Compliance
Assessment platform that can improve your ability to source safe
and quality products in a timely manner for socially compliance
factories in India.
Our Online Audit solutions help organisations to
Perform booking, scheduling for an factory inspection/ audit;
Track the status of on-going jobs 24/7;
Obtain detailed reports; and
Access to a repository of all inspection and audit reports booked
through online

8. SERVICES
Inspections – Verify the product quality based on the
AGCS Verified Social Compliance at the beginning of
production, during production or after the goods have
been produced.
• Factory Assessments – Audit the
production capability and performance of a factory
against the AGCS Verified Social Compliance. Key
criteria assessed are quality management system, good
manufacturing practice (GMP), product and process
control that would indicate the factory’s ability to
deliver consistent quality management over time,
rather than at one given time or only for certain
products.
• Social Compliance Audits – Using the AGCS
Verified Social Compliance to assess and monitor the
working conditions of a manufacturing site, including
wages and benefits, working hours, health and safety
measures, working environment, child or forced
labour, and much more.

9. BENEFITS
• Information Technology: Real time tracking of your
orders via the EAUDIT feature with online booking and scheduling
in a matter of minutes.
• Global Consistency in Execution: Centralized
document control and QA systems provide basis for global
consistency.
• Responsive & Dedicated Customer Service: Single
point contact offers active support from project start to on-going
management.
• Ethical Inspectors and Auditors: Leading integrity
program with established policies, training programs and proactive
monitoring procedures.
• Knowledgeable and Skilled Personnel: Our auditors
and inspectors are qualified, prepared and supported through a
team of dedicated trainers to align with the consistency of
approach.
• Capacity and Capability Building: Using effective
training programs conducted by our global and local specialists, we
have demonstrated an ability to rapidly build up capacity and
capability to meet increased and seasonal volumes, while
maintaining quality in execution.

10. WHY CHOOSE AGCS?
Reputation – For over 10 years, we have worked successfully with top manufacturers
and retailers around the world to help them better manage risk and Social
compliance.
Locations Coverage – With locations close to sourcing areas in over 25 major
locations in India , we offer you the convenience of global compliance with local
service where you need it and can provide the audit report across India within a
reasonable TAT time.
QHSE+ Social Compliance Knowledge & Leadership – Our staff is experienced and
trained of international, industry and regulatory standards worldwide, keeping you
and us at the forefront of changes in safety requirements and management methods.
Personalized Service – At AGCS, we are committed to meeting your evolving needs
and helping you anticipate new market trends. We offer you customized and
specialized services to meet your quality assurance needs throughout your supply
chain. Providing you with the highest level of service is a priority for us.
10 years,750+ factories and hundreds of social compliance audits and still the same
major compliance problems continue.
The time has come to reengineer social compliance efforts to put more emphasis on
performance and partnership and less emphasis on policing and compliance.

11. FACTORY SOCIAL COMPLIANCE
WE CAN DO BETTER!
To brands and retailers: We can do better!
It’s easy to blame factory management for poor working
conditions. But customer behavior is a big part of the problem.
Look to be an enabler of progress, rather than the policeman of
problems.
To suppliers and factories: We can do better!
Your workers, your customers, and consumers are done waiting.
You are the employer to the world, we need your leadership.
Realize the opportunity and commit to changing ‘business as
usual.’
To NGOs, Consumers, Media, and Investors: We can do better!
You are our global conscience. Use your influence wisely. Do not let
perfection be the enemy of progress.
At Accredium, we want our clients to think big, think beyond the
current paradigm and view supplier responsibility through a new
lens. We Can Do Better! Please join us as we re-imagine a new
vision for how we all need to work together – differently with more
emphasis on impact and performance – to drive change for all of
us.

12. SOCIAL COMPLIANCE FOR RETAILERS
Find out how Accredium can help
your suppliers comply with Social
Responsibility and Ethical Sourcing
codes specific to retailers such as:
Akansha Sharma
Business Manager- Supply Chain
Audits
Direct: (M) + (91) -
E-mail:-
info@accrediuminspection.com