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Actio Supply Chain SolutionsMaterial Disclosure is a total software solution for environmental regulatory compliance that provides:- Secure, centralized corporate portal- Integration with corporate ERP, PLM, procurement systems- Supplier communication, data collection, analysis & roll-up- Highly configurable questionnaire creation – database driven- B.O.M. screening and analysis- Risk validation- Supplier score carding- Downstream declaration creation & distribution

See http://www.MaterialDisclosure.com

Top 10 Best Practices for Gathering and Managing

Supplier Data

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Top 10 Best Practices: Supplier Data

# 10: First: establish a big picture vision with suppliers.

“Getting clean reliable data about products, processes and sources is a big picture goal.”

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Top 10 Best Practices: Supplier Data# 9: Get executive buy-in

Ultimately, you want executive buy-in from your upstream and downstream supply chain, but most importantly, prior to even establishing a big picture

vision with suppliers, you’ll need executive buy-in from your own org.

This should happen even before communicating the vision to suppliers.

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Top 10 Best Practices: Supplier Data

# 8: Be a heli-pilot:Educate, train, reiterate -- keep flying folks from your company and from your suppliers to see the view (and show them the way to get there)

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Top 10 Best Practices: Supplier Data# 7: Make sure suppliers know how the

system benefits them. e.g., suppliers get: relief from duplicate submissions,

saving time and money, safely store data, stay up-to-date easily, create favorable reports, know all the answers,

look good to customers, etc.

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Top 10 Best Practices: Supplier Data

#6: Clear, regular communicationwith suppliers gets results; automated

communication is most reliable; homespun databases, emails, spreadsheets and

DBs have limits & liabilities and waste time

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Top 10 Best Practices: Supplier Data

#5: Leverage your legacy datahoused in ERP, PLM, and procurement software

(SaaS software is best for this – it’s agnostic, works with everything)

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Top 10 Best Practices: Supplier Data

#4: Know Your Stuff:Visibility into product and part ingredients helps

businesses measure and communicate green initiatives and compliance

both internally and to the world

Japan: Mount Fuji

Top 10 Best Practices: Supplier Data

#3: Collecting data on chemicals-of-emerging-concern is as important as

collecting data on known toxics(To wit: REACH just added 8 chemicals suddenly,

without a comment period)

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Top 10 Best Practices: Supplier Data#2: Verification of supplier compliance

is critical for data integrity --which benefits you and your suppliers.

Validate all suppliers, don’t play “favorites,”“favorites” won’t help you in the end.

Scorecard all suppliers. This should be easy if these other best practices are in place.

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Top 10 Best Practices: Supplier Data

#1: Do not impose too much restriction on suppliers all at once!

It can backfire, create deception, and ill-will. While full material disclosure is always best, start slow, in a

tiered approach to data collection. If you hit a snag, revert to Yes/No questions: “Are there SVHCs in supplied item X?”

Circle back for more data in 3 months - or 6.

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Top 10 Best PracticesMATERIAL DISCLOSURE

• Disclosure management• Data & document management• Declaration management• Bill of materials (BOM) scrubbing and

data consolidation• Save time, money, and employee

headaches

• Conflict materials management• Partnership with suppliers• Product stewardship – down to the

substance level – be green!• REACH, RoHS and WEEE compliance

assurance• Globalization of products

Benefits of rising to compliance:

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Top 10 Best Practices: Supplier Data

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