Five questions. Five minutes. A clear picture of where your supply chain stands and what's most likely to hurt you when it counts.
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Time~3 minutes
Questions5 items
Domains5 critical areas
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01 — Design for Manufacturability
Has your design been reviewed for manufacturability against your target production process, not just by your engineering team?
Internal reviews miss what manufacturing floors find on Day 1. A formal DFM pass is the single highest-ROI step before CM selection.
02 — Supplier Qualification
Have you conducted an on-site audit or structured factory assessment of your primary contract manufacturer?
A quote tells you what a CM wants to charge. A site visit tells you what they can actually deliver. These are rarely the same thing.
03 — Tariff & Trade Risk
Have you mapped your full BOM to country of origin and calculated your actual tariff exposure?
Most founders discover their tariff exposure after their first PO. At that point, the cost is already baked in and the supplier is already selected.
04 — Program Management
Is someone, internally or externally, dedicated to managing your CM relationship and production timeline, separate from your engineering team?
Engineers who manage their own production launches split their attention at exactly the moment both jobs need full focus. Something always slips.
05 — Cost Structure
Have you built a Total Cost of Ownership model including tooling, scrap, rework, duties, and freight, or are you working from supplier unit pricing?
Startups routinely underestimate true production cost by 20-40% when modeling from unit price alone. That gap shows up in margin, or in a board conversation you didn't plan for.
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Design for Mfg.
Supplier Qual.
Tariff & Trade
Program Mgmt.
Cost Structure
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This assessment covers one question per domain. The full Production Readiness Review goes 5 questions deep in each area and gives you a prioritised action list by risk level.
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