Product Compliance Management

Our team helps clients understand global and local directives and regulations that restrict the use of materials and substances as well as developing comprehensive product stewardship strategies and programs to manage compliance and business risk.

Our key services include:

We provide consulting and advisory services around Conflict Minerals, RoHS, REACH, WEEE and similar laws and directives to support strategic and tactical business processes. This includes:

• Tracking new regulations and regulatory changes applicable to our clients’ businesses
• Evaluating customer requirements and business processes related to product design and material content including conducting gap assessments
• Delivering realistic solutions to environmental and sustainability challenges to improve product environmental compliance and manage risk

We provide end-to-end, turn-key services to help our clients determine compliance and minimize risk in the supply chain. This includes:

• Communicate with geographically dispersed suppliers to manage material content data collection using industry standards such as IPC-1752A for full material declaration (FMD) and the Conflict
• Minerals Reporting Template (CMRT)
  Perform data validation and analyses to determine and improve the quality of data collected from suppliers
• Develop and deliver technical training programs to internal and external parties to assure alignment with corporate goals and objectives

We help clients anticipate and plan for complex data gathering and validation that can be facilitated with environmental software by:

• Investigating and developing requirements to clearly identify software capabilities required to meet business needs, improve process efficiencies, and address future demands
• Identifying and evaluating commercially available software and managing the RFP and procurement process
• Conducting functional gap analyses to evaluate software vendor proposals and clearly identify customization needs
• Documenting and developing business processes so that the full value of the software is realized
• Supporting software testing and user training

We develop custom software tools to enable our clients to evaluate, understand, optimize, and communicate the environmental impact of their products and processes. Our solutions include:

• Creating custom desktop and web-based solutions that help our clients raise awareness of environmental and sustainability programs within their organizations and with their customers
• Providing software development support to help clients and suppliers with technical and process related issues
• Implementing and supporting commercial off-the-shelf or purpose built solutions to automate critical business processes