TABLE OF CONTENTS The standard requires the organization to ensure that purchased product conforms to specified purchase requirements.
What does this mean?
ISO 9000 defines a supplier as an organization or person that provides a product and in ISO/TS 16949 a product can be services, hardware, software or processed materials. A supplier may therefore be a producer, distributor, retailer, vendor, contractor, subcontractor or service provider. Purchased product is any product or service that is purchased rather than freely given or otherwise acquired and applies to any product or service that affect compliance with customer requirements. Specified purchase requirements are those requirements that are specified by the customer, the organization or by statutes and regulations that apply to purchased product. This would include any requirements limiting the conditions or the source of supply.
Why is this necessary?
This requirement responds to the Factual Approach Principle.
All organizations have suppliers of one form or another in order to provide products and service to their customers. Some of them directly or indirectly impact the product being supplied to the organization s customers and others may have no impact at all such as office supplies. From the scope of the standard we draw the conclusion that the requirement is not intended to apply to products and service that have no impact on the customer but why would you not want to manage such purchasing activities as effectively as other purchasing activities? This is not...
