Keeping borders safe through a trusted partnership with the Supplier Compliance Audit Network (SCAN).
“We're providing digital transparency of supply audits to meet global standards, reduce fatigue and ensure secure delivery of trans-national shipments.”
SCAN is an industry trade association with members spanning retail, apparel, food and sport. It was introduced in 2017 to establish an audit-sharing platform (based on global compliance standards) and help improve consistency while lowering costs.
Modern supply chains are complex and interconnected. Suppliers are increasingly experiencing audit fatigue due to repeated auditing by multiple firms against very similar requirements, meaning they are left spending a disproportionate amount of time responding to audits and less time focusing on other initiatives and business priorities.
This process slows operations, reducing the time to close out audit actions and impacting supply chain throughput time. It increases global emissions as specialists travel excessively to enable these audits.
For suppliers to effectively adopt this universal approach, third-party programme management was needed. Our SCREEN Edge platform helps auditors manage audits and corrective actions, enabling standardized reporting and trend analysis.
To support reduced carbon emissions and increase trust, the partnership has also made digital supply chain investments in the blockchain to leverage audit authentication and support factory certification verification. Our Immersive Audit process and technology have been developed to deliver zero-carbon auditing.
SCAN aims to improve supply audit efficiencies. Through our partnership and contribution of network members, organizations worldwide achieve:
Global efficiency: one security audit report is accepted by all SCAN members.
Streamlined processes: secure, automated method to share audit results with SCAN Membership.
Consistency: a standardized Corrective Action Plan for facility improvement.
Transparency: complete management and reporting of SCAN Corrective Action process.
Cost savings: reduced audit costs due to fewer audit requests.
Rationalization: fewer supply chain audit requests.
Critical organizations (including US Customs and the CTPAT organization) have now been introduced to SCAN and acknowledge the benefits.
4,000 audits a year.
22,000 audits since the programme begun in 2017.
88% of SCAN members benefitting from shared audits.
$7,733,600 cost saving in 2022 through saved audits.
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