Services Offered by GrECom
A. Audit & Assessment Services.
CSR Audits & Assessments
GrECom provides strategic advice to Board of Directors of a company to help identify gaps, mis-matches and potential or emerging risks. GrECom helps its client to measure the results, effectiveness and value of CSR and Sustainability initiatives. GrECom’s services cover assessment of current responsible business strategies, benchmarking against CSR standards, competitors and best practices. The sustainable objectives of the organization are achieved by linking the above through GrECom’s CSR training programs, personal development programs, by employee coaching and assessment.
Social Audits & Assessments
Social Accountability Audits and Assessments ensure that your business partners abide with your company’s commitment to Corporate Social Responsibility and Social Compliance. GrECom helps clients to evaluate social compliance throughout the supply chain. GrECom conducts social audits & assessments, which monitor and measure client’s organization’s progress against relevant indicators, benchmarks and international standards (i.e. SA8000, BSCI, WRAP, FLA, and ETI. ICTI, SEDEX etc.)
HSE Audits & Assessments
GrECom conducts Corporate HSE audits in order to assess the effectiveness of the HSE Management System (HSE-MS). They are meant to provide independent assurance that HSE risks are adequately controlled and managed, and to identify areas for further improvements. GrECom conducts HSE audits, which monitor and measure client’s organization’s progress against relevant indicators, benchmarks and international standards.
Integrity & Ethical Audits and Assessments
Ethical auditing is a process which measures the internal and external consistency of an organization’s values base. The reasons for examining the state of a company's ethics are many and various. They include external societal pressures, risk management, stakeholder obligations, and identifying a baseline to measure future improvements. The companies choose to do it simply because it is right and because it is likely to bring business benefits.
GrECom conducts Integrity and Ethics audits, which monitor and measure your organization’s progress against relevant indicators, benchmarks and standards covering measures future improvement, learn how to meet any societal expectations, give stakeholders the opportunity to clarify their expectations of the company's behavior, identify specific problem areas within the company and to learn about the issues which motivate employees.
Energy Audits & Assessments
Energy Audit is the key to a systematic approach for decision-making in the area of energy management. It attempts to balance the total energy inputs with its use, and serves to identify all the energy streams in a facility. It quantifies energy usage according to its discrete functions. Industrial energy audit is an effective tool in defining and pursuing comprehensive energy management programme. GrECom conducts energy audits for its clients to appropriate decisions in the area of energy management.
B. Quality Assurance Services
Factory Evaluation Services
GrECom provides a wide variety quality assurance services to customers to allow them to enhance their business processes. GrECom delivers extra value, improve quality management and performance, minimize risk, and gain a real advantage over the competition. GrECom's comprehensive factory evaluation services provide knowledge about factory’s capability to produce a particular product. It includes review of factory's capability of Machine, Men, Methods, equipment and production etc. as well as review of quality control of incoming materials, inventory, factory's internal records and their evaluation, review of test equipment of functionality, calibration and calibration records, review of final inspection and test status of all shipments which are delivered from the factory are under gone proper inspection and testing for at least basic requirements. GrECom’s customers highly rely on GrECom’s professional services to ensure the integrity of the inputs received from their suppliers and their suppliers’ suppliers. GrECom’s services ensure that the quality and safety of products or installations meet applicable requirements, whether they are regulatory, voluntary or customer specific.
Quality Inspection Services
Independent pre-shipment inspection of goods helps identify potential product defects or inconsistencies. It is a simple, highly effective way of safeguarding your company against costly import risks and expensive product recalls. Inspections can be performed on-site before, during and after production. GrECom’s compliance experts will be there at client’s production centers to match and verify the specifications which are agreed by Buyer and the Seller against product that comes out of the factory. Inspections can be conducted according to ASQC / ANSI / ISO / MIL standards.
QHSE Consultancy
GrECom provides consultancy to set up QSHE systems as per best practices and international standards. GrECom assists the clients to ensure that client’s are working in best way to that the quality and safety of products or installations meet applicable requirements of quality, health & safety and environment, whether they are regulatory, voluntary or customer specific.
C. Security Audits and Assessments
Securities Assessments and C-TPAT Audits
GrECom’s security assessment services are designed to address and assist the organization’s security systems, processes, identify corrective actions and establish improvement plans to address weaknesses, assist client’s compliance with government security requirements through periodic auditing of its commercial processes. GrECom also assists the compliance of security systems and procedures of prospective or contracted third party suppliers, manufacturers, freight forwarders and similar service providers with their customer’s security requirements. GrECom’s staff and associates are capable of performing security assessments to identify the actual status of a facility to compliance to Security systems as per international norms.
D. GrECom Integrated Audit and Assessment Approach
GrECom offers a “one stop” and complete vendor program to include CSR, Social Compliance and QHSE. This offers increased efficiency and business opportunities to meet multiple criteria demanded by diverse buyers and a source of competitive advantage where larger buyers seek to rationalize their supply chains.
E. GrECom’s Value Added Services
GrECom offers below standard and customized services based on client’s Requirements:
Training
GrECOM has developed materials for effective training seminars on CSR, SA, labour law, HSE, QA & other key issues of SA, CSR, HSE & QA. GrECom’s training programmes help companies, factory managers, factory workers, investors and the public respond more effectively to the challenges presented by global sourcing. At the vendor or factory level, management benefit from trainings on good management systems, continuous improvement, human resource practices, and interpretation of local legal requirements. On-site workshops help facilities manage their own social compliance programs and achieving better results.
Special Projects on CSR & SA
GrEcom offers special projects on CSR & SA to the various partners of the society. GrECom is capable of being your strategic thought-partner as well executioner. GrECom’s methodology of working of the project(s) is as under:
• Develop monitoring methodology, field tools, and reporting instruments for the identification of the specific issue.
• Collect and compile related statistics for program review
• Training of supplier auditors on proper protocol and field work assessment methodology, tools, reporting instruments
• Evaluate past efforts to monitor compliance with standards
• Establishing specific goals for main factories, sub-contractors
• Building capacity to monitor long-term progress
CSR/SA Report of a Country or Specific Issue
GrECom provides data collection, analysis, and reports on issues that affect the labor compliance monitoring
Industry of a Country of coverage.
Local Law Compliances
GrECom assists its clients to prepare, establish and implement local law compliance to ensure that the local laws are complied with.