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Finding and verifying a vendor in India from abroad

A GST number on a PDF is not the same as a shutter that opens. A visit answers a different question than a database search.

Overseas teams lose months on vendors who exist on LinkedIn and not on the industrial estate.

A coordinator visit cannot replace an audit. It can answer cheaper questions: Is this address a working unit. Does the name on the gate match. Who met us. What production or inventory was visible. Did they allow a photograph of the floor. Did they refuse, and why.

Bring a short checklist. Do not ask a coordinator to “make sure they are genuine.” Ask them to record what they saw. Then your own commercial judgement — or a licensed due-diligence firm — can use the file.

Kalyan Mitraa’s vendor verification service is this visit, written up without theatre.