Supplier qualification
The process of establishing that a supplier is permitted and able to provide a given component or service, repeatably.
Supplier qualification is the process by which a buyer establishes that a supplier may provide a specific component or service, and can do so repeatably to the required standard. It covers the supplier's quality programme, the scope of its approvals, its manufacturing and inspection capability, and its record on comparable work. In regulated sectors it is a documented, auditable process rather than a commercial judgement.
It is the reason a nuclear or grid supply chain cannot be assembled from a general industrial directory. A company that machines an identical part for another industry is not a qualified supplier until its quality programme and its scope of approval say so, and the gap between those two states is measured in months. That gap is the bottleneck SMR developers hit first, because they are building a supply chain rather than inheriting one.
Qualification is also perishable. Approvals have scopes and expiry dates, and a supplier's capability changes with its people and its equipment, so treating it as a one-time check is how a programme discovers a problem at the point of order rather than at the point of planning. Where a buyer needs an item that was not made under a qualified programme, commercial grade dedication is the route that exists for it.
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