Supplier Intelligence Guides
Practical guides and tools for evaluating suppliers, checking documents, preparing audits and reducing sourcing risk. Written by the people who run the checks.
How to Verify a Chinese Supplier
A step-by-step process for verifying a Chinese supplier: match the Chinese registered name, check the Unified Social Credit Code, confirm the production address, review quality and compliance evidence, then decide whether an on-site audit is needed.
Factory Audit Checklist: What Auditors Actually Check
A factory audit checklist covering documentation, production control, quality management, social compliance and corrective action, with the records auditors ask for and the findings that come up most often.
Supplier Risk Assessment: How to Score a Supplier
How supplier risk assessment works: the six risk dimensions, how they are weighted, what evidence moves the score, and how to act on a result instead of just filing it.
Factory Audit Checklist
A practical factory audit checklist: legal status, facility, quality system, labour and child-labour controls, health and safety, environmental compliance and the records to review before you place an order.
Supplier Risk Assessment Guide
How to run a supplier risk assessment across company, quality, compliance, production, supply chain and documentation, and how to use the score to decide verification, audit or order size.
SMETA vs BSCI: Social Audit Comparison
SMETA vs BSCI explained: what each social audit covers, who runs them, reporting differences, recognition, and how to choose the right one for your supply base and buyers.
How to Read a Factory Audit Report
How to read a factory audit report: separate the score from the findings, read the major and critical items first, check the evidence, and decide what to do about each finding.
How to Audit a Factory in Vietnam
How to audit a factory in Vietnam: confirm investment and business registration, verify the real production site, review quality and social compliance, and order an on-site audit before a deposit.
Pre-Shipment Inspection Checklist
A pre-shipment inspection checklist: when to inspect, what to check (quantity, workmanship, function, packaging, labelling, loading), sampling plans and how to act on the result.