Glossário
Supplier qualification
Supplier qualification is the process that verifies whether a company can be contracted before the first order exists: registration and tax data checked at the source, valid documents, regular standing, and approval by whoever owns the risk. The supplier enters the system already able to receive an order.
In practice
What this changes in your master data
Verification at the source
Registration and tax standing checked against official records, not typed in by whoever creates the record. What is typed can be mistyped.
Documents expire
Certificates have validity dates. Qualification that does not track expiry is qualification for a single day.
Questions
Frequently asked questions about this term
Without qualification, the checking happens later — in the blocked payment, the rejected invoice, the contract without cover. The cost does not disappear; it moves, and it gets more expensive, because by then a commercial commitment already exists.
No. Registration records the data; qualification verifies whether that data allows contracting. A supplier can be registered and not qualified.
Yes: they submit documents and confirm data. What does not change is who approves — the decision remains with the contracting company.
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