| 1 | Product and Application Fit | Confirm that the manufacturer can produce the required CONEVO configuration, dimensions, materials, operating conditions, and application-specific options. | Technical data sheet, dimensional drawings, application references, sample approval records, and a written specification review. | Critical | 18% |
| 2 | Quality Management System | Assess whether production is controlled through documented procedures, inspection plans, traceability, corrective actions, and nonconformity management. | Current ISO 9001 certificate, quality manual index, inspection procedures, internal audit records, and corrective-action examples. | Critical | 15% |
| 3 | Material and Component Traceability | Determine whether critical raw materials, purchased components, and production batches can be traced from incoming inspection through final shipment. | Material certificates, batch records, supplier-control procedures, incoming inspection reports, and serial-number or lot-number systems. | High | 11% |
| 4 | Manufacturing Capacity | Evaluate available machinery, production lines, skilled labor, monthly capacity, bottleneck processes, and the supplier’s ability to handle repeat orders. | Factory audit, equipment list, production-flow chart, capacity statement, recent utilization data, and confirmed lead-time records. | High | 10% |
| 5 | Testing and Inspection Capability | Check whether the supplier can perform the dimensional, functional, electrical, mechanical, or performance tests required for the product. | Test-equipment register, calibration certificates, inspection reports, acceptance criteria, and pre-shipment inspection checklist. | Critical | 12% |
| 6 | Compliance and Export Documentation | Verify the supplier’s ability to prepare accurate commercial, technical, safety, customs, and destination-market documentation. | Declaration templates, certificates where applicable, packing list, commercial invoice, certificate of origin, HS-code confirmation, and export references. | High | 9% |
| 7 | Engineering and Customization Support | Measure the supplier’s ability to interpret drawings, manage revisions, propose practical changes, and support integration with the buyer’s system. | Engineering organization chart, design-review process, revision-control procedure, CAD capability, and anonymized project documentation. | High | 8% |
| 8 | Lead Time and Supply Continuity | Compare standard production lead time, peak-season capacity, critical-component availability, safety-stock policy, and contingency planning. | Historical delivery performance, production schedule, business-continuity plan, alternate-source list, and written lead-time commitment. | High | 7% |
| 9 | After-Sales Service and Warranty | Review warranty scope, response time, spare-parts availability, troubleshooting procedures, remote support, and escalation channels. | Warranty policy, service-level agreement, spare-parts list, complaint-response workflow, maintenance instructions, and service-case records. | Medium | 5% |
| 10 | Total Cost and Commercial Transparency | Compare purchase price together with tooling, packaging, inspection, freight, duties, installation, maintenance, spare parts, and payment terms. | Itemized quotation, Incoterms® 2020 reference, tooling ownership terms, payment schedule, packaging specification, and landed-cost calculation. | High | 5% |