Factory quality assessment is an important process that ensures error-free and timely delivery of products to customers. When your products are not delivered on time or have defects, it hurts your business reputation. There are primarily two reasons to conduct a factory quality assessment: 1. To verify that your supplier's facilities are operational and suitable for manufacturing your product 2. To ensure that your supplier's sourcing policies comply with your own 3. To identify and hedge against potential quality, operational, and ethical risks 4. To evaluate the competence of the factory management Conducting supplier quality assessment is an essential and well-established tool for identifying, eliminating and preventing quality problems in a supplier’s products, processes or management system before the problems spread. Without proper management, buyers could face various risks including financial burden, brand damage and legal disputes arising from failure of suppliers’ performance in social compliance, environmental, technical and security.