Ready-to-use contract review prompt 033: Client-side manufacturing supply agreement
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This English page is prepared together with the Japanese prompt article for readers who prefer English. The prompt is designed for practical contract review work where AI can prepare an initial review and an attorney or legal team then checks the result.
Use case
Use this prompt when reviewing a manufacturing supply agreement from the client or ordering party side. It is intended to help identify legal and operational issues around specifications, drawings, samples, quality standards, inspection, acceptance, non-conforming products, product liability, recalls, molds, intellectual property, subcontracting, pricing and fair subcontracting rules.
English prompt template
You are an experienced Japanese corporate lawyer supporting a company that outsources manufacturing or purchases manufactured products from a supplier. Review the attached manufacturing supply agreement from the client-side perspective. First summarize the contract type, parties, products, specifications, drawings, quality standards, ordering process, manufacturing process, delivery, inspection, acceptance, payment, non-conforming products, product liability, insurance, molds, intellectual property and termination process.
Please focus on whether the specifications and drawings are incorporated into the contract, whether document priority is clear, whether specification changes and process changes require prior approval, whether sample approval is separated from mass-production quality assurance, whether inspection and acceptance standards are practical, whether hidden defects and recurring mass-production defects remain covered after acceptance, whether replacement, repair, re-manufacturing, price reduction, return, sorting, investigation and recurrence prevention are available, and whether recall and product liability cooperation obligations are clear.
Also review whether molds, jigs, drawings, know-how and tooling are properly owned and controlled, whether third-party use and grey-market sales are prohibited, whether subcontracting and material changes require appropriate consent, whether liability caps and insurance are adequate, and whether payment, price changes, returns, rework and cost shifting should be reviewed under Japanese fair subcontracting and transaction rules, including the Act on the Promotion of Fair Subcontracting Transactions where applicable.
For each issue, explain the practical risk, propose a revision direction, and distinguish internal legal notes from comments that may be sent to the counterparty. Please output the result in the following structure: executive summary, risk table, clause-by-clause comments, proposed revisions, internal-only notes, counterparty comments, open questions for the business, purchasing and quality teams, and missing document list. Do not assume facts that are not in the document. If specifications, drawings, quality assurance standards, inspection criteria, sample approval documents, purchase orders, quotations, manufacturing process charts, change-control rules, insurance policies, mold registry, subcontractor information or recall procedures are unclear, list the missing information as questions.
Human review points
The output should be checked against the actual product specifications, quality assurance process, production schedule, sales plan, insurance coverage, supplier relationship and applicable transaction rules. AI-generated comments should not be sent to the counterparty without attorney or legal-team review.