SUPPLIER MANAGEMENT: ISO 9001: 2015 Firstly, Supplier Evaluation refers to the process of assessing and approving potential suppliers with quantitative and qualitative assessments. The purpose is to ensure a portfolio of best in class suppliers is available for use. It is also a process applied to current suppliers in order to measure and monitor their performance for the purposes of reducing costs, mitigating risk and driving continuous improvement. For all that, as you can see in the above table includes supplier evaluation steps and you can follow al for some steps. Supplier evaluation contains identification, capability review, supplier self-assessment and supplier audit (CAPA, also called c orrective action/preventive action or simply corrective action ), supplier education, sample review, approval full/limited. In addition to this, CAPA is a system of quality procedures required to eliminate the causes of an existing nonconformity and to prevent recurrence ...