Hello Everyone !,
So a bit of background. My current facility is on the path to become SQF certified, in February we scheduled a pre assessment in early April. In March, we were told the auditor is unable to perform the audit on the requested date, so another date was selected in mid April.
1 day before the pre assessment audit, the CB cancelled the audit again, siting auditor unavailability. The new date was end of April.
We eventually completed the pre assessment, and scheduled the certification audit scheduled for end of July. We made complaints to the CB regarding the 2 prior cancellations , and was assured that cancelations were rare and this wont happen again.
Imagine our surprise to be notified by the CB 5 days before the certification audit that it was again cancelled due to auditor unavailability.
Prior to working at the current facility I've gone through may SQF audits, and haven't had any issues like this, including during COVID.
Current CB seems to not care since the issue is repeating itself 3 times this year so far. I think I'll need to address the issue directly with SQF as well.
Has this happened to anyone? trying to gauge if this is just an issue with my current CB or if this is a widespread issue going on across the entire industry ? Also if you have reliable CB recs, I'm open to suggestions as well ! located in the USA.
Thanks for your time !
RH
Has this happened to anyone? trying to gauge if this is just an issue with my current CB or if this is a widespread issue going on across the entire industry ?