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Scope of second party audit

The situation is we have a customer audit. They only purchased imported finished goods and not a in-house produced products. Is it okay that they also audit our production area where we manufacture our in-house local finished goods? They also taking pictures of all the documents we presented which including confidential formulas? As far as I know taking pictures must be depend on the agreement of management and the auditor.

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Strahinja Stojanovic Apr 20, 2017

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This situation is very strange. The scope of the customer audit can only include the processes and products they are using and you can prohibit them from auditing other processes and facilities. Taking pictures of processes and documents is completely off limits, you cannot allow this. There cannot be an agreement that can grant them this especially if they are not using products produced in this way.

They will probably try to threaten you with canceling the contract or something like that but you should endure. This sounds like behaviour of some big company but sometimes is better to lose some contract th an to allow third party to find out all sensitive information about the company.

For more information, see: First-, Second- & Third-Party Audits, what are the differences? https://advisera.com/9001academy/blog/2015/02/24/first-second-third-party-audits-differences/

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