SEDEX Certification

What is SEDEX?

What is SMETA?

SMETA is an audit methodology, providing a compilation of best practice ethical audit techniques. It is designed to help auditors conduct high quality audits that encompass all aspects of responsible business practice, covering Sedex’s four pillars of Labour, Health and Safety, Environment and Business Ethics.

SMETA is designed for suppliers to share one audit with multiple customers, meeting multiple customer requirements and reducing duplication in ethical auditing. SMETA has three elements:
1. A common Best Practice Guidance on conducting ethical trade audits
2. A common Audit Report format3. A common Corrective Action Plan format

How much is Sedex membership?

For Supplier: The annual membership fee for Supplier (B) members is £100.00 per site per year (VAT is chargeable to UK companies only), or 1200 RMB in China if you pay the Sedex China office by BACS.

For buyer: For buyer (A) and buyer/supplier (AB) members there are two parts to the membership fee:
1. A one-off set up cost
2. An annual subscription fee
Both of these are determined by annual sales turnover. The set up cost includes training and account management support to help you get the most from your Sedex membership.

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₹ 3499 .00

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HOW IT WORKS

Fill the form & Make the Payment.

Get Call from a dedicated SEDEX expert.

Experts will receive required documents.

SEDEX experts will file the application Process.

Congratulations! Your SEDEX certification is sent successfully.

What is the difference between SEDEX and SMETA?

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. Sedex was founded in 2001 by a group of retailers to drive convergence in social audit standards and monitoring practices. Sedex aims to ease the auditing burden on suppliers through the sharing of audit reports and to drive improvements in supply chain standards.

SMETA (Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit) is the audit methodology created by the Sedex membership to give a central agreed audit protocol, which can be confidently shared. Originally created by the Sedex Associate Auditor Group (AAG), now renamed the Sedex Stakeholder Forum (SSF) and involving multi-stakeholder consultation, it draws from practices defined by Sedex members and by the Global Social Compliance Programme (GSCP)

What does a SMETA audit cover?

SMETA consists of four core documents:
SMETA Best Practice Guidance.
SMETA Measurement Criteria.
SMETA Measurement Criteria.
SMETA Measurement Criteria.

A SMETA 2-Pillar audit comprises:
Labour Standards.
Health and Safety.

A SMETA 4-Pillar audit contains in addition:
Labour Standards.
Health and Safety.
Environment.
Business Ethics.

How do I get SEDEX/SMETA Certificate?

What are the Steps to Proceed and How to Achieve SEDEX Certification?

You must register online on SEDEX for becoming Member B or AB based on request received from Member A and pay online for membership.
You can link SEDEX Registration Number provided by Member A.
Carry out Gap Analysis to check the Gap between company planned things and achieved things.
Check the document of the organization to ensure that the documentation fulfilled the compliance requirement.
Create various Policies required by SEDEX guidelines.
Auditor Issues Non-Conformance through email and also upload on SEDEX portal.
Non-conformance closure with evidence submit to Certification body also on SEDEX Portal.

You may fill online SAQ (Self Assessment Questionnaire) comprising of more than 300 questions online on SEDEX platform in your membership domain to determine exact Gaps.
Determining role, responsibility and authorities, Identify and assemble core group, Appointment of Team Leader to Lead SEDEX implementation.
Management Review Meeting at defined intervals to monitor progress of Implementation.
Application to Certification Body (List of Approved Certification body available on SEDEX website)
On-Audit by Certification body Auditor.
Issue a Certificate of Compliance by Certification body or Report Upload on SEDEX Portal.

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