Supplier quality management is a critical business practice for companies that increasingly outsource business processes to strategic partners and have increased reliance on vendor products and ...

Supplier Audit Rights in Technology Agreements In a recent article, we discussed contractual audit provisions that give the buyer of technology goods and services the right to verify that the supplier ...

Businesses choose to outsource in order to reduce operational costs and to focus on core business tasks. According to Think Progress Economy, a 2009 Strategic Outsourcing Conference poll showed that ...

There is an ongoing trend in the pharmaceutical industry to outsource activities to external vendors. When such outsourcing affects GMDP-activities, and is therefore related to EU Good Manufacturing ...

Over the past few months, Microsoft Corp. and other software vendors have become less aggressive about threatening customers with audits to gauge whether they’re complying with their license contracts ...

When software vendor auditors push too far, enterprise technology leaders must be prepared to push back. In an extreme case, the food company Mars (best known for Snickers and M&M’s candies) filed a ...

Research suggests that on-site audits are becoming less meaningful because suppliers are less willing to devote time to them. Derived from the Latin word audire (to hear), the term “audit” dates back ...

Virtual audits proving to be beneficial post-COVID despite continuing challenges. It is best practice for life sciences companies to audit their medical affairs (MA) functions at least every two years ...

Suppliers typically request audit rights when key buyer obligations or supplier rights hinge on factors that would otherwise be invisible to the supplier. For example, suppliers' fees are often based ...