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Overcoming Inspection Challenges for Handicraft and Natural Material Products

For importers of handicrafts and natural material products, ensuring consistent quality can be a complex task. Variations inherent to these products pose unique challenges, making it essential to have robust inspection processes in place.
With over 120,000 inspections carried out each year, V-Trust has gained deep insights into these issues and offers practical tips to help buyers establish clear and acceptable quality standards with their suppliers before production, and enhance inspection effectiveness.

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Enhancing Quality and Efficiency: The Importance of Production Monitoring in Vietnam's Shoe Manufacturing Industry

In this article, we will explore the significance of production monitoring in Vietnam's shoe manufacturing sector.

Differences: SMETA Audit 2-Pillar and 4-Pillar (Checklist)

The Sedex membership developed the audit methodology known as SMETA (Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit) to provide a centralized audit process that can be reliably shared. Developed by the Associate Auditor Group (AAG) with input from numerous stakeholders, the protocols of the audit were put into two types of audits: SMETA 2-Pillar audit and SMETA 4-Pillar audit.

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Why Approved Samples are Worth the Investment

In a recent inspection performed on beauty skincare packaging containers, our inspector noticed that the client’s labeling didn’t match up in a way that greatly affects the marketability of the final product. The client’s order was for plastic bottles that will later contain 1 fl oz / 30ml of a skincare product, to be filled in a different country. However, the bottles were all made with printed labeling for 0.9 fl ox / 27ml. This created a huge problem for the buyer because the order was already completed with over 5,000 units, thus forcing every unit to be reworked before leaving the factory.

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Detecting Preventable Barcode Errors in Product Inspections

Having correct, readable barcodes on packaging is crucial to guarantee the efficiency of inventory management, tracking & tracing and product handling throughout the supply chain. Therefore, ensuring that all approved packages have correct, readable barcodes, which includes verification of the barcode’s grading and quality, is an essential part of the general checking criteria of on-site product inspections.

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