Care starts before
the medicine.
Responsible sourcing reaches the people, places and working conditions behind every input. Aseri helps pharmaceutical teams see beyond the approved supplier file.
An approved supplier.
An unfinished picture.
Supplier qualification establishes a starting point. Understanding a facility also means asking who recruits its workers, how chemicals are handled and where waste goes. Explore the questions a fictional API supplier review could open up.
Plan a supplier assessmentFacility review
Active pharmaceutical ingredient · India
Choose a review focus
Who looks after the people making the input?
On record
A labour-provider agreement, sample contracts and a chemical-handling training register are supplied.
On site
Speak privately with contract workers about recruitment fees, pay and protective equipment. Observe how chemicals are handled during a working shift.
The next conversation
Compare worker accounts with employment records; assign any gaps to the facility and labour provider together.
A new recruitment agency or a change in the workforce should reopen the relevant employment questions.
Illustrative questions, not findings about a facility or country. A supplied document does not establish conditions on site.
The dependencies
behind the dose.
An API is one part of the picture. Excipients, solvents and packaging bring their own production relationships. Connect each input to its origin and the people responsible for the next answer.
- APIIndia
- Understand the manufacturing site, labour providers and any external processing.
- EthanolBrazil
- Explore feedstock origins, working conditions and water use along the supply route.
- GlassGermany
- Ask about raw materials, furnace working conditions and contracted maintenance.
Illustrative input geographies, not risk assessments or statements about countries.
Commodity, Country and Industry Risk Intelligence helps frame where to look. Continually updated national and sub-national CAHRA intelligence adds conflict and high-risk-area context where relevant. Our risk intelligence service turns those questions into focused research for your sourcing decisions.
The planned one-click tool will start with a Tier 1 supplier upload to explore upstream relationships.
Define what qualification needs to cover.
Start with the supplier and site records you already hold. Aseri works with procurement and sustainability colleagues to agree the assessment boundary, identify missing evidence and decide who can obtain it.
- The purchasing relationship
- Bring the supplier name, purchased input and manufacturing address. Compare the contracting entity with the site producing your order. Record any distributor or external processor between them, including relationships the supplier has yet to confirm.
- The people doing the work
- Establish the actual employer for each worker group and which labour providers recruit them. Use contracts and worker accounts to examine recruitment arrangements, pay and access to grievance channels. Keep unanswered questions visible in the assessment brief.
- The work contracted out
- Request the external-processing and waste-contractor records relevant to the input. Check which locations and activities they cover. An agreement with the approved supplier may leave the operator doing the work outside the current review.
A handoff both teams can use
Agree a shared record of the concern, its supporting evidence and what remains uncertain. Name the person responsible for the next action and the evidence needed to review it.
- Procurement
- Takes supplier requests into the commercial conversation and records the agreed response date. Escalates overdue or incomplete replies through the sourcing programme.
- Sustainability or responsible sourcing
- Reviews the evidence with the assessment team, identifies where worker engagement or specialist input is needed, and records why an action can close or needs further work.
The useful output is a supplier review with traceable evidence gaps and an agreed follow-up plan. Your team can see what informs its sourcing decision and what it still needs to establish.
Make the next
review count.
Give procurement a dependable way to follow through, from qualification to the next order.
Strengthen your sourcing programmeAseri helps assess suppliers, conduct human rights impact assessments and strengthen management systems. Set clear expectations for labour providers, environmental evidence and procurement integrity, with escalation when the picture is incomplete.
Consultancy helps agree when a supplier needs deeper review and how findings reach the people making purchasing decisions. Analyst-led research can investigate an unfamiliar input or location before you set the on-site assessment scope.
Our available audit tools support automated AI audit reviews, risk-led questions, auditor job assignment and progress monitoring. Expert judgement connects the evidence to a practical next step.
Training helps buyers and suppliers recognise concerns and use agreed procedures. Corrective action support turns findings into named responsibilities, realistic deadlines and follow-up evidence.
Agree the closure test when the action is set. Review the supplier’s response against that test, then revisit the assessment when a production site, labour provider or waste contractor changes.
This work addresses human rights, environmental impacts and responsible business conduct. It complements pharmaceutical quality work; it does not provide GMP, product-quality or patient-safety certification.
Bring care into the next sourcing decision.
Start with an input, a facility or a supplier programme. We’ll help you decide what to understand, who to involve and how to follow through.