Supplier Evaluation Service
Shift from simple supplier selection to strategic, compliance-driven sourcing.
SUPPLIER EVALUATION SERVICE
We assess whether your suppliers align with your internal standards and expectations.
Evaluate your supply chains to anticipate risks.
Selecting the right suppliers is both demanding and strategically critical, as it can determine a company’s global competitiveness, operational resilience, and exposure to regulatory and reputational risks.
The Supplier Evaluation Service provides customers with a clear, structured approach to assess supplier qualification before contractual commitments are made or as a core part of supplier pre-onboarding.
Transparency
Clear scoring criteria, visible to suppliers.
Consistency
Uniform evaluation across all suppliers.
Efficiency
Early identification of risks before contracts.
Failure to comply with existing regulations can result in significant penalties, supply chain disruptions, and reputational damage.
By assessing suppliers at the earliest stage, businesses can safeguard their critical operations and maintain consumer trust.
In this context, GTS brings expertise in traceability, compliance, and sustainability best practices.
We provide the customer with the tools and processes needed to evaluate suppliers effectively, including a structured questionnaire
and a transparent risk analysis.
The Supplier Evaluation Service as a risk management tool.
Risk Mitigation
Reduce legal and reputational risks associated with non-compliance, while mitigating risks linked to the buying process.
Strategic Alignment
Ensure compliance and alignment with the company’s internal sustainability and ethical sourcing objectives and frameworks.
Onboarding Efficiency
Streamline supplier onboarding by identifying potential issues as early as possible and setting the right foundation for collaboration.
Global Traceability helps you turn supplier qualification into a data-driven, meaningful competitive advantage.
The combination of GTS technology and expertise allows you to identify gaps in supplier capabilities to comply with certain regulations and assess the probability that suppliers can close those gaps within acceptable timeframes.
This process supports your supplier pre‑onboarding and competence assessment activities by ensuring only suppliers with demonstrable readiness move forward.
Collect & Analyse the Inputs
Use the GTS Pre‑Onboarding Questionnaire in RADIX Tree.
Engage Your Suppliers
Pinpoint the improvement areas to focus on with priority.
Classify Supplier Readiness
Assess the probability that the suppliers can close the gaps.
Generate the CAP
Map the Corrective Action Plan (CAP) to guide supplier actions.
Turn supplier assessment into strategic assurance.
Use RADIX Tree and GTS expertise to identify competence gaps and to strengthen conformity across your supply chain before spending time and effort on supplier onboarding.
Access clear, actionable insight into your suppliers so you can make selection decisions with confidence.
GTS is responsible for all supplier-facing and technical assessment activities, including outreach, data gathering, evaluation, gap analysis, probability assessment, classification, and the Corrective Action Plan (CAP). The customer remains accountable for final decisions on supplier progression.
The Supplier Evaluation Service In Practice
Step 1: Collect Supplier Inputs via RADIX Tree
The GTS Pre‑Onboarding Questionnaire consists of predefined questions divided into multiple risk areas, weighted against a Scoring Matrix to reflect their impact on readiness.
These inputs provide the factual basis for assessing supplier qualification, ensuring that the operator’s decisions are evidence‑based and auditable.
Input Elements
Supplier Questionnaire
Structured answers to compliance‑aligned questions, covering governance, traceability, and due diligence practices.
Responsible Sourcing
Material‑level coordinates and supply chain mapping, enabling verification against environmental and legality risk indicators.
Uploaded Documents
Files supporting evidence, such as policies, risk assessments, certification standards, and due diligence reports.
Step 2: Rely on GTS to Process The Data
GTS expert team conducts the risk analysis by applying a consistent, transparent framework, based on best practices and internal knowledge. This process translates raw supplier data into a structured readiness profile, balancing regulatory, operational, and commercial considerations.
Process Elements
Scoring Matrix
Assigning weighted points to questionnaire responses and evidence based on criticality.
Probability Assessment
Evaluating the likelihood that identified gaps can be adequately closed by suppliers.
Readiness Classification
Classification of suppliers based on their level of maturity and their ability to change.
Step 3: Gain Accurate Insights on Supplier Risks
GTS delivers a detailed results package that provides a documented basis for supplier selection and risk management.
The GTS approach ensures that such a process is repeatable, supports supplier engagement and ensures corrective actions are tracked and monitored.
Output Elements
Final Readiness Report
The report provides an overview of the findings and the supplier readiness classification.
Corrective Action Plan
The Corrective Action Plan defines a tailored roadmap for suppliers rated Provisionally Ready.
Auditable & TrANSPARENT Data
The full record of inputs, scoring, and decisions is safely stored for transparency and defensibility.
A Multi-Framework Supplier Evaluation Service
Use the Supplier Evaluation Service to assess if your suppliers have the capability to comply with any regulatory or internal requirements.
EUDR, UKTR & Lacey Act
Focus: Geolocation data and evidence that the production did not contribute to deforestation.
Digital Product Passport
Focus: Materials, environmental data, traceability, and product-specific compliance.
Packaging & Packaging Waste
Focus: Sustainability standards, labelling, life cycle, production, use and waste management.
The EUDR Compliance Package
One Solution For All EUDR Needs
The EUDR Compliance Package is a comprehensive solution designed by GTS to cover all steps of your compliance journey.
It combines the Supplier Evaluation Service to assess the supplier EUDR readiness, with full EUDR compliance, allowing you to satisfy the regulation’s requirements while relying on one due diligence system, RADIX Tree.
