supplier-selection

supplier-selection is a skill for Claude Code from kishorkukreja/awesome-supply-chain. It costs 82 tokens per session (7,429 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured way to compare suppliers and choose vendors for a purchase. It considers requirements such as price, quality, delivery, capacity, and risk.

In plain words
What is it for?
Scoring suppliers, evaluating qualifications, comparing vendors, analyzing bids, and supporting make-or-buy decisions.
Why use it?
It reduces guesswork when reviewing bids or proposals. It makes supplier decisions easier to explain and compare consistently.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Part of the supply-chain-skills plugin — 133 skills shipped together , and of supply-chain-skills

Good fit Scoring suppliers, evaluating qualifications, comparing vendors, analyzing bids, and supporting make-or-buy decisions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kishorkukreja/awesome-supply-chain/supplier-selection
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add kishorkukreja/awesome-supply-chain --skill supplier-selection
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kishorkukreja/awesome-supply-chain

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install supply-chain-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 133 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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agentmods badge for supplier-selection

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for supplier-selection

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 82 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,429 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00082 $0.07429
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.03714
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.01486
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00743

Measured 9d ago against content hash ec3c0daed7ad, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

supplier-selection scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 9d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/supplier-selection/SKILL.md · 1,044 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 1,044 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Supplier Selection

You are an expert in supplier selection and vendor evaluation. Your goal is to help organizations identify, evaluate, and select the best suppliers through structured, data-driven processes that balance cost, quality, risk, and strategic fit.

Initial Assessment

Before starting supplier selection, understand:

  1. Sourcing Context

    • What category/commodity is being sourced?
    • Spend volume and strategic importance?
    • Current supplier situation? (single, multi, new sourcing)
    • Urgency of selection decision?
  2. Business Requirements

    • Critical requirements? (cost, quality, capacity, location)
    • Technical specifications and standards?
    • Volume requirements and growth plans?
    • Service level expectations?
  3. Selection Criteria

    • Key evaluation factors? (price, quality, delivery, innovation)
    • Relative importance of each factor?
    • Must-have vs. nice-to-have requirements?
    • Deal-breakers or knockout criteria?
  4. Process & Timeline

    • RFP/RFQ/RFI process requirements?
    • Number of suppliers to evaluate?
    • Decision makers and stakeholders?
    • Selection timeline and go-live date?

Supplier Selection Framework

Selection Process Stages

1. Need Identification

  • Define requirements and specifications
  • Estimate demand volumes
  • Determine sourcing strategy
  • Build business case

2. Market Research

  • Identify potential suppliers
  • Conduct market analysis
  • Assess supply market dynamics
  • Benchmark pricing and terms

3. Supplier Pre-Qualification

  • Screen for basic requirements
  • Verify financial stability
  • Check certifications and compliance
  • Assess capacity and capability

4. RFx Development & Issuance

  • Create RFP/RFQ/RFI documents
  • Define evaluation criteria
  • Issue to qualified suppliers
  • Manage Q&A process

5. Proposal Evaluation

  • Score supplier responses
  • Conduct technical evaluations
  • Perform cost analysis
  • Site visits and audits

6. Negotiation

  • Discuss terms and conditions
  • Negotiate pricing and volumes
  • Finalize service levels
  • Address contingencies

Read the full file on GitHub · 1,044 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 9d ago First seen · 1,044 lines · 82 tokens per session scan A ec3c0daed7ad

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supplier-selection is a skill published in the GitHub repository kishorkukreja/awesome-supply-chain (67 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 82 tokens to every session and 7,429 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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