blackholequasar
The Cheerful Diabetic
Hello, folks! I am currently transitioning our company over to a controlled supplier process and found that one of the "ISO Certified" suppliers that we had been using is actually not certified, if I am reading this right... They provided a QAS International Registration Certificate which does not bear any seals or mention to ANAB or any other accredited body. The audits appear to be done on an annual basis and not on a 4-year cycle. When I searched the ANAB CB Directory, I came up with nothing for QAS International.
I informed the supplier that we cannot accept them as ISO certified (as their cert is not from a CB) and they are pushing back stating that they have been doing this since 2008 and never had an issue. Is anyone familiar with this company? QAS International? Perhaps I didn't do my homework deeply enough? This is for one of our critical suppliers, as well, that our facility has been ordering bare circuit boards from for population here. And I can say that in the few years I've been here, I have not seen any new orders placed with them so part of me wants to just disqualify them based on lack of use. I just don't want to make a judgement about the authenticity of someone's certificate that is completely wrong.
I informed the supplier that we cannot accept them as ISO certified (as their cert is not from a CB) and they are pushing back stating that they have been doing this since 2008 and never had an issue. Is anyone familiar with this company? QAS International? Perhaps I didn't do my homework deeply enough? This is for one of our critical suppliers, as well, that our facility has been ordering bare circuit boards from for population here. And I can say that in the few years I've been here, I have not seen any new orders placed with them so part of me wants to just disqualify them based on lack of use. I just don't want to make a judgement about the authenticity of someone's certificate that is completely wrong.