✅ Supplier Evaluation Checklist

1. Business licences — the non-negotiables

If a supplier fails here, stop. Nothing else on this list matters.

2. The factory visit — eyes on the floor

Photos can be borrowed. A visit can't be faked. If you can't go, send someone.

3. Export history

Past behaviour is the best predictor you have.

4. Quality systems

"We check everything" is not a quality system.

5. Money and communication

Boring questions that prevent exciting problems.

How to read your score

Below 50% — walk away. The gaps are structural, not fixable with a friendly email.

50–79% — workable, but only if the missing ticks are in sections 4 and 5, never in section 1. Get the gaps closed in writing before any deposit.

80% and above — a solid supplier. Still get everything in a contract and still inspect before shipment. Trust, but verify — that's literally our job.

Can't visit the factory yourself? That's what we do — on-the-ground verification in Jodhpur, Jaipur, Moradabad and across North India, with photo reports you'd get yourself if you were standing there.