Introduction
URSA (Understanding Responsible Sourcing Audit) is an audit protocol which enables an independent assessment of a suppliers performance and compliance against all applicable laws and regulations and the additional requirements of Unilever's Responsible Sourcing Policy [RSP]
What can we offer
Control Union is one of the preferred audit companies by Unilever to conduct Responsible Sourcing Audit at their suppliers. Along with our qualified audit team, Control Union will perform audit and inspection of farms, farmer groups, Manufacturing units, Processors, Traders / exporters and Logistic units as per the guidelines of Unilever RSP
Main description about the standard
URSA goes wider and deeper than industry accepted protocols and assesses supplier practices in Labour Standards, Health&Safety, HumanRights, BusinessIntegrity, Environmental Management, and Land Tenure Rights. Undergoing an URSA audit is necessary to meet Unilevers requirements for compliance and to climb the RSP ladder to achieve the Good Practice Benchmark
How does it work?
As a Unilever supplier, to start the URSA audit process, you have to have completed your company and where applicable site registration in USQS (Unilever Supplier Qualification System). You may need to communicate Unilever local procurement team for more information.
Audit is mainly based on below steps
Audit Requests (you may need to send the dully filled application along with required information)
Preparation for audit (You will receive URSA Guide for suppliers, list of key incidents and URSA Gap analysis from your Unilever local procurement team)
On site audit (Control Union will share official audit Plan)
Audit Reporting (Based on URSA check list given by Unilever)
Audit follow up
|
|