OUR STANDARD SUPPLIER TERMS AND CONDITIONS
- Stellar Industrial Supply, Inc. reserves the right of final approval of products and services, methods, processes, equipment, and the release of products and services.
- All special processes required by this Purchase Order (PO) must be performed by qualified personnel.
- Our organization reserves the right to review and approve the supplier’s Quality Management System (QMS). Standard QMS Requirements include:
- Suppliers providing special processing must maintain a system for validating processes.
- Customer directed sources must operate in accordance with approved specifications and standards as dictated and controlled by the customer in question.
- Method for control and monitoring of the external providers’ performance.
- Prevent the use of suspected unapproved, unapproved, and counterfeit parts.
- Suppliers initially approved for use via Certification (ISO9001, AS9100, ISO17025, AS9120, etc.) must notify our organization of any changes to that certification.
- The supplier shall maintain the proper identification and revision status of specifications, drawings, process requirements, inspection/verification instructions and other relevant technical data. Unless noted otherwise on PO, the latest revision level is to be used.
- Stellar Industrial Supply, Inc. reserves the right to approve or specify any designs, tests, inspection plans, verifications, use of statistical techniques for product acceptance, and any applicable critical items including key characteristics.
- Stellar Industrial Supply, Inc. reserves the right to designate requirements for verification or validation activities, design approval, inspection/verification, investigation, or auditing.
- The Supplier is required to:
- Notify Stellar Industrial Supply, Inc. of nonconforming product.
- Obtain Stellar Industrial Supply, Inc. approval for nonconforming product disposition.
- Notify Stellar Industrial Supply, Inc. of changes to processes, products, services, including changes of their external providers or location of manufacture and, where required, obtain organization approval.
- Flow down to the supply chain all applicable requirements, including customer requirements.
- Provide a certificate of conformity, test reports, or authorized release certificate, as applicable, when requested.
- The Supplier is required to retain all records associated with the PO for a period of no less than 10 years, unless otherwise specified.
- Right of access by Stellar Industrial Supply, Inc. our customer and regulatory authorities to the applicable areas of all facilities and to applicable documented information, at any level of the supply chain involved in the order, and to all applicable records.
- Suppliers must ensure that personnel are aware of their contributions to products and services conformity, product safety, and the importance of ethical behavior.