SEDEX Certification Consultancy
What is SEDEX and SMETA?
SEDEX stands for Supplier Ethical Data Exchange, which is an online system that allows suppliers to maintain data on ethical & responsible practices and allows them to share this information with their customers. It is an online database which allows companies to store and view data on ethical and responsible business practices. Sedex does not set any standards or determine the policy of its members. It is purely a tool for facilitating access to information. Sedex stores information on ethical and responsible practices covered by ILO Conventions, ETI Base Code, SA 8000, ISO 14001 and industry specific codes of conduct. Sedex members can use the information on the system to evaluate suppliers against any of these codes or the labour standards provisions in individual corporate codes. Sedex itself does not specify a particular code or state that suppliers have 'passed' or 'failed'. Sedex certification is achieved through SMETA, which is an audit procedure developed by Sedex. SMETA is world’s most widely used social audit, SMETA identifies and prioritises the risks using a 2 or 4-pillar audit depending on organization’s needs.
SMETA stands for SEDEX Members Ethical Trade Audit. It is a social auditing methodology, enabling businesses to assess their sites and suppliers to understand working conditions in their supply chain. SMETA is designed to help auditors conduct high quality audits that encompass all aspects of responsible business practice, covering SEDEX’s four pillars of labor, health and safety, environment, and business ethics. SMETA 2-pillar audit covers labour standards and health and safety as mandatory elements plus entitlement to work, subcontracting and homeworking and a shortened Environment assessment as additional elements. The SMETA 4-pillar audit covers everything in the 2-pillar audit with an extended environmental assessment and business practices audit.
SEDEX Certification
Punyam.com assists companies to get Sedex Certification quickly and at an affordable cost. Our Sedex consultant will help you get Sedex Certification in a time and cost-effective way. Punyam’s team of Sedex consultants will provide you active support in the implementation of a Sedex requirements, pass through SMETA audit and achieve Sedex Certification.
Punyam.com has broad experience of Sedex certification in all types of industries. We provide Sedex Certification consultancy services to our clients in following steps:
- Micro-level survey for each and every department of the organization and Gap Analysis.
- Preparation of applicable Sedex documents based on detail study of all activities of all department of companies.
- Training to all levels of employees for Sedex SMETA audit requirements.
- Support in Sedex implementation and training to Sedex team
- Develop required documents for Sedex compliance
- Conduct review of the system to monitor progress of Sedex implementation
- Filling online questionnaire on Sedex Portal
- Application to accredited certification body for Sedex SMETA audit
- Support for successfully passing Sedex SMETA onsite audit.
- Uploading SMETA Report on the Sedex portal.
- Recognition as a Socially Compliant Organization.
- Improved structure and focus with respect to business ethics.
- Reduces risk by the Sedex Risk Assessment tool
- Ensures transparency and confidence
- Compliance with Legal, Contractual, & Regulatory Requirements.
- Develops Ethical business practices
- Improves business efficiency of the organization
- Reduce workload and generate greater employee involvement
- Improves business proficiency of the association
- Drives improvements in your supply chain
- Competitive advantage
- Encourages increased supplier engagement
- Availing the status as an approved supplier.
- Boosts productivity
- Saves time and resources
- Improves supplier engagement
- Access to export market and hence achieve new business.
SEDEX SMETA covers Best Practice Guidance, Measurement Criteria, Audit Report, and Corrective Action Plan Report (CAPR). For conducting Supplier Ethical Data Exchange SMETA Audit by the certifying body the organization needs to follow requirements are as below:
For SMETA 2-pillar audit:
- Follow Labour standards
- Follow Health and safety standards
For SMETA 4-pillar audit:
- Follow Labour standards
- Follow Health and safety standards
- Protect and improve Environment Conditions- Environmental assessment is required
- Follow Business Ethics
In addition to the above, organization will need to follow protocol to develop audit report and establish remedial activity plan.
Our Strength for Social Compliance Consultancy
- We have a team of highly- experienced ISO consultant and globally certified lead auditors for Consulting Services
- Our team is having graduate/master degree of Engineering/management having more than 15+ years of experience in management system implementation for clients.
- Our consultants provide handholding support to clients in development and implementation of policies, plans, controls, documentation and record-keeping as well.
- 100+ Social Compliance System implementation in various industries in 15+ countries.
- Implemented 7000+ Man-days Social Compliance projects successfully
- We follow the latest standard industry best practices for Social Compliance implementation
- 200+ Editable documents for various management systems have been sold to our global clients
- 200+ personnel of clients and other individuals trained by our consultants for awareness, system implementation and auditor training through online/class room.
- Our Social Compliance consultants work with more than 50 leading International & National Certification Bodies such as BV; BSI; TUV; DNV; SGS; Lloyds; ISOQAR; NABL; IAS; UKAS, etc.
- Our clients had got benefits of continuous improvements and business excellence with use of our practical approach in consultancy projects.
- In our ready to use Social Compliance documentation package we provide 100+ editable sample document templates with more than 400 pages.