Accelerate your FSQA work and help meet requirements for Costco
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.
Costco's Audit Program
Costco GMP Audit
For suppliers not certified to SQF, BRC, or another recognized GFSI scheme. In use for 25 years, covering core food safety management system requirements for food and beverage suppliers. Costco's audit documents are publicly available.
Costco Addendum
For SQF, BRC, FSSC 22000, and other GFSI-certified suppliers. Additional questions verified during your GFSI certification audit that cover Costco-specific requirements.
SafetyChain is Built Around How Audits Actually Work
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.
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.
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.
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
Manufacturers operating on digital plant management platforms like SafetyChain maintain timestamped, searchable electronic records created at the point of work, not assembled after the fact. When an auditor requests 60 days of production records, the records are retrieved via search rather than manually compiled from binders or spreadsheets. This requires records to be created digitally in real time, not reconstructed or transcribed from paper at a later point.
No. Costco does not mandate SafetyChain as a required platform. Many Co-manufacturers choose SafetyChain because it is purpose-built for FSQA models where continuous digital record-keeping, automated CAPA workflows, and clause-level audit trail management is required.
See the v3.0 Program Running.
Bring your gaps. We'll show you how SafetyChain Customers like LPP pulls 60 days of records on demand and closes a CAPA