Controlling outside manufacturer

Answer:
Why do you want to have a similar process control at your outside manufacturer? You want good products, timely delivered and at a fair price, and those outcomes can be controlled by you. Perhaps your outside manufacturer has different equipment, different manufacturing experience, different people with different knowledge and experience. I’m more in favor of working the interfaces between organizations to make transactions the more seamless possible and give freedom to how people or organizations attain mutually agreed objectives. One of the reasons for the success of ISO 9001 since 1987 is allowing companies to have their own quality management systems instead of several, according to the flavor of the week and the flavor of the week is determined by which customer will be visiting us this week. I experienced that when of my consulting clients had visits/audits from French customer, then English customer and then German customer. Another topic is what is your companies’ dimension and power to impose your own ways of controlling to an outside manufacturer working for several clients.

The following material will provide you information about subcontracting:
ISO 9001 – How to control outsourced processes using ISO 9001 - https://advisera.com/9001academy/blog/2015/05/05/how-to-control-outsourced-processes-using-iso-9001/
Understanding outsourcing according to ISO 9001: A case study - https://advisera.com/9001academy/blog/2019/03/19/understanding-outsourcing-according-to-iso-9001-a-case-study/
Free online ISO 9001:2015 Internal Auditor Course - https://advisera.com/training/iso-9001-internal-auditor-course/
Book – Discover ISO 9001:2015 Through Practical Examples - https://advisera.com/books/discover-iso-9001-2015-through-practical-examples/