Too much of anything—even a good thing—can be bad. As such, facilities that worked with multiple buyers ended up undergoing multiple audits, each pretty much the same as the other. And thus was born ...

This is the fifth installment in a limited series exclusively on Sourcing Journal of research provided by Cornell University’s New Conversations Project. The New Conversations Project is dedicated to ...

When I walk a manufacturing floor, I can usually tell within minutes whether it’s audit-ready. I’m not looking for binders, dashboards or compliance posters. I’m watching how work happens. Where do ...

You have to ignore a whole bunch of things you can sense is a problem. Because you have to pay all your staff salaries and what do you want to do? A three-week audit? It’s not just all the days going ...