When you perform your sourcing trough B2B platform you may find an important number of potential supplier with different profile. Most of them, are just middleman or agent which would just add another link to the supply chain.  Yet, you are going to appoint probably only one for manufacturing your product, hence you need to sort them out and choose the best one.
 

The supplier background check or Off-Site Factory Audit is a low cost audit which allows you to verify the exact nature of the sourced supplier and its existence.