Supplier Re-Evaluation Requirement After Legal Entity Change

[LOGANATHAN.R]

I was previously employed with the organization under its former legal entity. The company has since transitioned to a new legal entity name.

During the initial supplier evaluation process, all required forms and calibration certificates were obtained from the approved calibration service provider. The same supplier continues to be used under the new legal entity.

Please advise whether a full supplier re-evaluation and update of the Approved Vendor List (AVL) is required, or if the existing supplier approval can be carried forward to the new legal entity

 

[yodon]

Unless your system or the standard (I'm not familiar with 14001) require it, I wouldn't think so and a memo to file explaining the situation should provide the bridge to the next time you need to (re)approve them.

That said, you may want to double-check to see if you have any agreements in place (e.g., Quality Agreements) with any of the suppliers that would need to be updated to reflect the new company name. If just calibration service providers, I wouldn't think so, but thought I'd mention.