Solvency
Financial health
Margins, leverage, and payment behavior, read from filings and financial records rather than a sales deck.
Supplier intelligence · US ↔ India
Setu Supply helps US manufacturers sourcing from India find out which factories they can actually trust. We assess each supplier’s financial health, capacity, customer concentration, and compliance from independent records — and keep watching after you start buying.
The problem
Most buyers see the factory the factory wants them to see. Two of these ten are actually verified.
How we evaluate
We don’t ask the factory to prove itself. We reconstruct the truth from independent customs and financial records, then compare it to the story the supplier tells you. Where the two diverge is where the risk lives — the same lens a private-equity investor brings to a company before writing a check.
Solvency
Margins, leverage, and payment behavior, read from filings and financial records rather than a sales deck.
Dependence
Who actually buys from them, and how exposed the factory is if a single account walks.
Reality
Real volumes and destinations from independent bill-of-lading records — measured against what the supplier claims.
Standing
Trade actions, sanctions exposure, registry standing, and the accuracy of prior US import filings.
The deliverable
Illustrative Castings Pvt. Ltd.
Kolhapur, MH · Grey-iron castings
62/100
Conditional
Steady revenue, thin operating margin; debt service covered.
More than 40% of revenue from a single US importer.
Claimed 40+ US shipments a year; 12 confirmed via independent bill-of-lading records over 18 months.
No adverse trade actions found; two import filings with classification errors.
Illustrative figures for a fictional supplier. Not a rating of any real company.
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