What are Walmart’s Responsible Sourcing Standards?
Walmart’s Responsible Sourcing Standards are a set of guidelines that suppliers must adhere to in order to do business with Walmart. The standards cover various aspects of social and environmental responsibility, including labor practices, product safety, and environmental sustainability.
How does Walmart ensure compliance with its Responsible Sourcing Standards?
Walmart conducts social compliance audits of its suppliers to ensure that they are complying with the Responsible Sourcing Standards. The audits cover areas such as labor practices, health and safety, and environmental sustainability.
How PQSmitra can help your organization meet Walmart’s Responsible Sourcing Standards:
PQSmitra is an accredited third-party auditor that specializes in social compliance auditing. We have extensive experience in conducting audits that meet Walmart’s requirements and can provide your organization with the tools and resources necessary to meet Walmart’s Responsible Sourcing Standards.
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Hassle-free Walmart Social Customer Audit with PQSmitra
The PQSmitra Team assists with a clear understanding of Walmart’s social compliance audit standards as well as simple solutions for putting them into practice. The team provides all necessary assistance in completing Walmart supplier audit-related documentation procedures. The first assessment of the organization’s current processes. To ensure satisfactory audit outcomes, 100 percent documentation support is provided. Walmart’s Social Compliance Audit implementation process is described below:
Simple & Practical Methodology
Initial Review
- Review of the existing System
- Gap analysis and planning for the compliance
Documentation
- Designing and developing of forms, formats, and procedures
- Training and Hand holding/ support for implementation
Effective Verification
- Internal audit for verification of implemented system
- Management review
Audit clearance
- Audit / verification
- Closure of non-conformities support if any
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
- Compliance with Laws
- Voluntary Labor
- Labour Hours
- Hiring and Employment Practices
- Compensation
- Freedom of Association and Collective Bargaining
- General Health and Safety
- Dormitories and Canteen
- Environment
- Gifts and Entertainment
- Conflicts of Interest
- Anti-Corruption
- Financial Integrity.
Note : The above audit criteria is mentioned based on the experience & for reference purpose. As it the sole property of Walmart, the checklist/audit criteria can be modified and revised at any point in time.
- Quality System Documentation
- Process Control & Documents
- Performance Measurement Records
- Standard Operating Procedures & Work Instructions
- Visual Management Implementation
- Health & Safety Related Requirements
- Legal & Environmental Compliance
- Human Resources Competence & Upgradation
- Operational System Improvements.
- Manufacturing units including sub-contractors in Walmart Supply chain.
- Recognition of socially compliant organization
- Opportunity to participate in Supply Chain of Disney-branded products.
- Opportunity for exports. Supplier Approval by overseas customers
- Compliance with business, legal, contractual, and regulatory requirements
- Improved structure and focus with respect to Business Ethics.
- Customer Specific Requirements are the additional requirements imposed by the customer (Walmart Social Compliance Audit) which an organization needs to compulsorily comply with in order to become a verified supplier. In many cases, these requirements are additional to ISO certification.
- Generally, customer specific requirements are the additional requirements generated over the existing ISO certification to meet certain needs of the customer. This helps the organization gain recognition as a socially compliant organization.
- As per specific requirements the Organization might have to make necessary changes in the Quality system to comply with the Customer Specific requirements. PQSmitra helps an organization to make the necessary changes to comply with the requirements of Walmart Social Compliance Audit in a very easy and practical manner.
- Yes, PQSmitra can ensure that your suppliers are certified and we can assist them in improving the overall quality to meet your specific requirements.
- Yes, PQSmitra as an Organization remains very up to date regarding the new trends of certification & specific requirements. We provide full assistance in the implementation of the same.