Sedex helps to maintain ethical information in a simple and effective manner. It is a secure online database which allows the registered members to share, store the information in four key areas:- Health and Safety standard, Labour standard, The environment and Business ethics.

You can join the Sedex database by performing a SMETA-guided Sedex audit in your company. After a successful audit, you have the chance to register with the Sedex platform, where you can share your SMETA reports with other members and your customers.

SMETA (Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit) is the most widely used social audit in the world. SMETA is Sedex’s social auditing methodology, enabling businesses to assess their sites and suppliers to understand working conditions in their supply chain.

Sedex is the name of the organisation – SMETA is the name of an audit methodology. The Supplier Ethical Data Exchange (Sedex) is a not-for-profit, membership organisation that leads work with buyers and suppliers to deliver improvements in responsible and ethical business practices in global supply chains.

There is no expiration date for the SMETA audit report, and the client decides the period of validity with their own criteria. Most clients set one year as the validity period to perform annual audit.

The certification process for SEDEX as follows:

• Application:

This is the first step to get the SEDEX certification, the application covers some basic information of the company. The certification body must accept the application and needs to b record or maintain all the information on the SEDEX database.

• Review of Application:

The application received shall be reviewed by the team to ensure that the compliance requirement have been fulfilled.

• Quote and Agreement:

After the review of documents we provide the price quotation to the client and performs the Gap Analysis to cover all the clauses and section of the quality standards and Gap Analysis is done to check the Gap between company planned things and achieved things.

• Documentation Review:

Check the document of the organization to ensure that the documentation fulfilled the compliance requirement.

• Stage-1 Audit:

Evaluate your organizations documented procedure and policies against the compliance requirement.

• • Review:

Review the documentation of your management system to ensure that the compliance requirement have been contented.

• • Corrective action:

Corrective action is deal with the non conformity. It has taken when the non conformity occurs.

• • Verification:

Verify the documentation of the organization as per the standard requirements.

• Stage-2 Audit:

In stage-2 audit, the auditor verifies that the organization implement according to its documentation and if the auditor of certification body identifies the non-conformities, then the auditor give the opportunity to correct the non-conformities.

• • Review:

Review the implementation process according to the organizations document.

• • Corrective Action:

If there is any non-conformity occurs, then the corrective action has been taken.

• • Verification:

Verify work instruction and implementation process are being followed by your employees.

• Granting of Certification:

The Certification Body will issue a certificate of compliance, which is valid for three years.

• Surveillance Audit:

Surveillance audit conduct to ensure that the organization meets the requirements of the management system. Surveillance audit must be performed in every six month or one year from the date of issued certificate.

• Re-Certification:

Re-certification is the process, which is done at the end of three years period.

• • Review:

Review the documentation and implementation process of your management system to ensure that the compliance requirement have been contented.

• • Corrective Action:

Recheck the non-conformity, if any other problem occurs then CB give the opportunity to the organization to resolve the non-conformity.

• • Verification:

Compare the documentation of the organization with the compliance requirement.

• Easy to access information or data at one secure place.
• Develops Ethical business practices.
• Maintain and manage business data or information properly.
• Improves business efficiency of the organization.
• Reduce workload and generate greater employee involvement.