Compliance Essentials: Streamline Your Supply Chain Communications

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Compliance Essentials:Streamline Your Supply Chain

Communications


Today’s Presenter

Jonathan HughesAssent ComplianceRegulatory Division


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What is Campaign Management?

“The process by which you communicate requests to

your supply chain”


Best Practices in Supply Chain Communication

Only impacted suppliers receive a requestCampaign requests easily segmented according to business rules

• Material type, business unit, risk levelOne communication to suppliers for all compliance requestsSupplier receipt status should be available

• Delivered? Opened? Completed? Abandoned?Different messaging for different suppliers

• By language, by supplier type, by spendAll outbound and inbound messaging to and from suppliers should be viewable and reportable

• Required to meet transparency standards

Good Practices


Best Practices in Supply Chain Communication

Mass Emails sent to all SuppliersManual emails from a unique email address

• All communications tied to that email address = High Risk• Data corruption, data intrusion, employee departure

All suppliers receive the same messageNo way to view successful transmission

• KEY risk areaSuppliers receive multiple requestsNo transparency into communications

• Communications stored in email chains or shared drives

Bad Practices


It’s Demo Time!


Use Case #1: Best Practices in Supply Chain Communication

Scenario:• A customer requests REACH information for all the products you

sold to them in the last year (e.g. Standard REACH request for Article 33.1 info)

Why is this Important?• Companies are obliged to respond immediately to these

requests which requires the aggregation of all supplier declarations, filtering for client-specific products and then assessment against REACH requirements

• This is extremely time consuming and prone to errors• New ECJ ruling makes manual efforts almost impossible

How does the ACM help?• Instantaneously rolls up parts and material information for

specific customers, along with REACH assessments with a one-click report

External Customer Request


Use Case #2: Best Practices in Supply Chain Communication

Scenario:• A materials inquiry for substances known to be

contained certain types of materials, e.g. Phthalates request from a current client

Why is this Important?• When known, it is important to isolate your inquiries to

affected materials. This demonstrates scoping due diligence, focuses efforts and mitigates risk.

How does the ACM help?• Instantaneously create material related question sets

and send surveys out only to affected suppliers

Material Related Inquiry


Benefits of Automating Supply Chain Communications

Immediate boost to efficiency in communications processes

o Eliminate duplicate email requestso Eliminate redundant requestso Eliminate unnecessary requests

Improve the strength of your compliance program

o Program agilityo Improved communication successo Scalability

Immediate access to comprehensive reporting on the success of your campaign

o Powerful reporting & analyticso Transparencyo Supplier metrics


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Compliance Essentials: Streamline Your Supply Chain Communications

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