You will perform a third-party initial audit of ABC, a car manufacturer located on the outskirts of São Paulo, Brazil.
ABC is a local branch of an American car manufacturer that wants to introduce a new model, the GX-1, into the Brazilian market. In your audit plan, you included a two-hour interview with the Production Engineering department to audit clause 8.3 of ISO 9001.
When you sent the audit plan to ABC for their review, ABC said, “There is no need for that interview because the design of the model GX-1 was made in the USA, and we did not participate in that process.”
Millions of cars have already been sold in the USA and the Far East with fantastic success.
Which one of these potential actions is acceptable?
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