Supply Chain Services for Renewables
Services to boost insight, efficiency and confidence in your supply chain
Whether you operate in wind, solar or battery energy storage – or across all renewables markets – it is important that you have insight, understanding and confidence in your supply chain.
Suppliers in critical industries like renewables must be technically competent, financially solvent, with the correct quality and sustainability measures in place to match your own standards. They must also be able to demonstrate that they can meet the urgent delivery demands of a time-critical industry.
Our team of specialists work across the world to ensure this is the case – and give you the assurance you need to demonstrate it to stakeholders.
WHY CHOOSE BUREAU VERITAS FOR RENEWABLES SUPPLY CHAIN SERVICES?
With more than 330 specialist Bureau Veritas renewables supply chain inspectors and a long history of experience in renewables, we have the quality, speed, consistency and global reach to meet your needs.
- 18 global renewables centres of expertise
- Global qualifications and competencies
- Innovative approach using industry best practices
- Committed to safety and integrity
- Global expertise, local support in more than 140 countries
- Access a full range of sustainability services
COMPANIES FACE INCREASING CHALLENGES FROM SUPPLY CHAIN
CONFORMITY of products, to codes, standards & purchase terms & specifications
- Procurement workshop inspections
- Expediting services
- Product testing
- Logistic inspections
- Retailers inspections
PERFORMANCE of providers, of goods & services to meet expectations in terms of sustainability, business continuity, maturity — mid-to-long term engagement process
- Vendor qualification audits
- Bankability audits
- Maturity assessments
- Resilience assessments
TRANSPARENCY related to, supply chain tiers mapping, product traceability, integrity of information flows
- Supply chain mapping
- Product traceability
- Information integrity
ASSURANCE of regulatory compliance and due diligence heavy processes in globalised supply chains
- Responsible sourcing schemes
- HSE regulations
- Due diligence (i.e. GSCA, Dodd Frank Act,)
- Other regulatory schemes
Our services span conformity, assurance, performance and transparency, at every stage of the project lifecycle:
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Pre-procurement advisory
- Technical procurement support
- Supplier technical assessments
- Bankability audits
- Technical procurement support
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Procurement supervision
- Second and third-party shop inspections (QA/QC)
- Expediting
- Factory acceptance tests
- Pre-shipment lab testing
- Transport/logistics supervision
- Second and third-party shop inspections (QA/QC)
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Supply chain sustainability
- Supply chain resilience
- ESG
- Lifecycle management
- Supply chain resilience
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Inspection services (QA/QC) -2ND & 3RD party
- Material quality control and inspection
- Instrument & production line calibration
- Inline manufacturing monitoring
- Supervision of the production process of main components
- Material quality control and inspection
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Expediting
- Coordination of expediting with all suppliers
- Monitoring of dispatch material
- Field and desk expediting
- Situation assessment for the overall project
- Supplier performance monitoring
- Coordination of expediting with all suppliers
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Factory Acceptance Audits (F.A.T)
- Visual inspection
- Non- destructive testing
- Functional and performance testing
- Review of warehousing, transport logistics, packaging and marking
- Visual inspection
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Pre-shipment lab testing (PV modules)
- Visual inspection
- Performance testing
- Safety testing
- Visual inspection
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Transport, loading & unloading supervision
- Witnessing of loading and unloading of components (process, quantity)
- Inspection points at factory, ports, and site
- Product traceability
- Witnessing of loading and unloading of components (process, quantity)
SUPPLY R - A NEW SOLUTION TO BUILD A RESILIENT SUPPLY CHAIN
Supply R brings together a customised risk assessment of supply chain based on field data collected from independent on-site verification of critical suppliers. The data is accessible by a proprietary digital platform, enabling full visibility of information on every vendor in a user-intuitive dashboard. Supply-R is a proactive approach and delivers a complete risk assessment to identify supply chain vulnerabilities, preventing costly business disruptions before they can happen.
SUPPLY-R KEY BENEFITS:
- Gain insight to proactively prevent business disruptions
- Additional and improved metrics to assess supply chain performance
- Identify key data points to enhance the supply chain responsiveness
Bureau Veritas also offers the Supply-Q Dashboard, a fully customisable, advanced business intelligence dashboarding platform.
View data from various supply chain activities delivered by Bureau Veritas on a specific project or contract, visualise insights by supplier, vendor or component and track your project status.
Our platform gives you the data you need at your fingertips to monitor quality control and better manage the cost of poor quality.