Western executives often look at their suppliers as business partners and expect them to work at solving problems together. Asian suppliers on the other hand are businessmen first. Many will commit themselves beyond their actual manufacturing or technical capabilities, intending to work on resolving the reality differences later.
Auditors examine objective evidence.
However, Amrep auditors are also uncovering other issues relating to communications and differences in business cultures while gathering those objective evidence. For example, our experience has shown that in many cases, problems were caused by both supplier and customer not talking honestly to each other Amrep auditors are constantly alert to any attempt at undue influence. One of the common mistakes many auditors make is to allow suppliers to directly or indirectly dictate the direction of Audits. Our auditors are trained to avoid this. They look at the spirit as well as the letter of the standard against which a supplier is measured.