New Supplier Checklist
Importers, exporters, traders, sourcing teams, and finance teams · Before RFQ, samples, PO, deposit, or first shipment.
- What this checks
- Supplier identity, bank legitimacy, capability evidence, compliance risk, and first-order controls.
- When to use
- Before RFQ, samples, PO, deposit, or first shipment.
- Decision it protects
- Onboarding or paying a supplier before identity, bank, capability, and shipment controls are evidenced.
How to use: Click evidence chips as you verify them. Tick the row when the control is satisfied.
Identity and payment controls
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No payment to new or changed bank details without out-of-band callback and internal escalation.
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Capability, quote, and quality evidence
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First-order risk and go/no-go
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Any single flag is a reason to pause; several together mean stop.
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Escalate if identity, bank, capability, compliance, quality, payment terms, or first-shipment controls are not strong enough.