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-Manufacturing Quality Chart, Process Flow, Procedure Layout and Process FMEA must be developed at the supplier's position and these are standardized products and checked during SQAE (Dobler and Burt, 1990, 63-74).

-A supplier should have on-line quality checking method, not just the last inspection and proper documentation should have been done to train employees in standard work procedures and quality standards.

-Definition of important characteristics of supplied parts (or part under development) in terms of dimension, look and purpose and the method should be declared along with the rate by which the parts should be checked.

-As lots of automobile parts require inspection through checking fixture due to their nature of fitment and utilisation in production, so examining fixtures should be developed and tested (Dobler and Burt, 1990, 63-74).

-Boundary Exhibits (limit samples) for those features related to appearance of any product must be prepared.

-Each product supplied, should be checked and tested against Toyota Standards before mass production and appropriate evaluation of each part should be done.

-Supplier should also have needs (if any) for obtaining assistance from Toyota and this must be discussed formally.

Minimum Quality Standards concerning specific product conformation are as follows;

* Part Examination Standard.

* Checking fixtures/Gauges.

* Boundary exhibits.

* Producing Quality Chart.

* Countermeasure Activity description for any Issue occurred regarding part quality (Dobler and Burt, 1990, 63-74).

All points described above are related to product development stage; however, Toyota founded its SQAE methodology on the same basis and has put up the above described aspects in their Supplier Evaluation criteria. Toyota in fact looks for the suppliers to know whether they are capable of executing and incorporating these methodologies into their quality assurance system.

Toyota set up its Vendor Assessment Criteria on monthly and annual basis, analysing the product conformance capability of the dealer/supplier. Results of this SQAE scrutiny used to give Quality awards to the suppliers and these outcomes tabulated in the form of points, these points given in accordance to vendor rating (Dobler and Burt, 1990, 63-74).

Monthly Assessment factors and their standards are

-Investigation data (Toyota Receiving Inspection). Rating system is established.

“A” for less than 600 defected parts per million.

-Resolving any problem occurred in parts regarding quality.

“A” for No problem. “D” for frequents problems and no timely response over it.

-Submission of Merchant Quality report.

Annual monitoring based on

-Re-occurrence of defects.

-Customer feedback/complaints about any specific part.

-Vendor Quality System assessment (Howe and Howe, 1995, 12-149).

Vendor Quality System assessment (based on product conformance) consist of following items.