Accelerate your FSQA work and help meet requirements for Kirkland
Become audit ready for any regulator, GFSI: SQF, BRC or customer auditor like Costco and Walmart. SafetyChain was purpose-built for continuous, defensible compliance — not audit-prep sprints.
How Costco's Audit Program Works
Costco GMP Audit
For suppliers not certified to SQF, BRC, or another GFSI scheme. In use for 25 years, covering core GMP requirements across food and non-food suppliers. Conducted by one of Costco's 23 approved third-party audit organizations. Costco's audit documents are publicly available.
The Costco Addendum
For SQF, BRC, FSSC 22000, and other GFSI-certified suppliers. Additional questions on top of your existing certification that cover Costco-specific requirements. When scheduling your GFSI Audit, remember to indicate that you need the Costco Addendum if you're a supplier to Costco.
Built Around How Audits Actually Work
01 Clause-level program mapping
Every digital form, record, and document your team completes maps to the specific clause of a National Account's GMP Audit or addendum it supports. Records attach to the program automatically as work happens. Nothing to assemble when an auditor arrives.
02 Manage by exception
Your quality team sees the program in real time — what's current, what's overdue, what needs attention. If an auditor walks in tomorrow, you know exactly how you'd do. Not a guess, not a folder-pull. A dashboard.
03 Corrective action tracking
When a gap is found during an audit, typically a customer gives suppliers two weeks to respond. SafetyChain routes the corrective action, tracks the timeline, and keeps the full record — root cause, response, and closure — in one place. Your team responds on time, every time.
04 Auditor access — just the slice they need
Give your auditor access to exactly the records they need — a defined window, a specific set of forms and documents — without opening your entire system. They see what's relevant. You stay in control of what's visible.
What Other Suppliers Are Saying
"The safety chain system is actually being used throughout our entire facility. They can collect all of the data that we need to make sure that our quality and food safety standards are being met."
SafetyChain is deployed and operates across Kirkland co-manufacturers in protein, dairy, seafood, produce, bakery, and beverage — from regional processors to some of the largest names in F&B manufacturing.
“The significant value of SafetyChain is in connecting plants, enabling cross-plant visibility, and saving time by reducing the need for physical travel or calls.”
Josh Kalich
Corporate Quality Control Manager
“We needed something that could handle everything we threw at it, no matter how complex.”
Eric S.
Plant Manager
“SafetyChain is critical in the process of our plant going paperless. We have also been going through the process of eliminating some of our home-grown excel or access-based and putting this data entry into Safetychain where they can be more easily trended and compared to other things also in SafetyChain.”
Ellie M.
Quality Assurance Systems Administrator
What Suppliers Are Asking
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