SCA meaning in oil and gas

Supplier Conformity Assessment

At its simplest, "conformity assessment" means checking that products, materials, services, systems or people measure up to the specifications of a relevant standard. For example, a customer may want to check that the product he or she ordered from a supplier meets the purpose for which it is required. One of the most efficient ways to do this is when the specifications of the product have been defined in an International Standard. That way, both supplier and customer are on the same wavelength, even if they are based in different countries, because they are both using the same references. Source: CA (Conformity Assessment) is any activity which results in determining whether a product or other object corresponds to the requirements contained in a specification. A specification, typically but not exclusively a standard, is a technical description of the characteristics which are required to be fulfilled by some object. These objects may be products (which in this context include services), processes, bodies, people or systems (management systems, for example). Officially, CA is the “demonstration that specified requirements relating to a product, process, system, person or body are fulfilled”. Note that the phrase “conformity assessment” does not limit or classify the activity in any way – a consumer who buys an appliance and at home checks that it conforms to a technical description may be said to be carrying out “conformity assessment”. Source: