Industrial subcontracting offers manufacturing firms the ability to better focus on their core business and take advantage of the expertise of different service providers in order to optimize their performance. However, like any other form of collaboration, it involves bringing together different entities, generally both in terms of their structure and their processes. To ensure a healthy and beneficial collaboration between the ordering client and their service providers, it’s therefore important to be aware of the risks associated with the quality of the subcontracted work, as well as those related to the legal, safety, social, and transportation aspects, among others. In practice, this means, for the ordering client, a clear and precise definition of their quality control policy with regard to subcontracting – a particularly important aspect in the manufacturing industry. This must imperatively take the following elements into account. Read more
