About Our Compliance Plan Templates (Word) and Tracking

Worksheets (Excel)

Helping to Simplify the Complex Compliance Process

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Tools to Help You Prepare for and Monitor Compliance

Product Sets include a Compliance Plan Template in Word and a Compliance Tracking Worksheet in Excel.

Unlimited business-unit licenses from $74.99 to $249.99.

Sets are available for AEO, APEC, ASIS, BIS, C-TPAT, ERSA,FSIS,FSVP, ISO, & SQF.

Rapid Payback… in saved professional time alone.

WE BUILT THE COMPLIANCE PLAN TEMPLATE IN WORD

Plan - Do – Check - Act

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From PDF to a Word Template

• Requirements restated to ensure operational-level response capability (no requirement statements with multiple potential responses)

• A logical, multi-level numbering schema (adding if required; modifying to match operational-level response consistency)

• Uses Word “Styles” for Plan Template (Headers and Text and Table of Content pre-formatted; easy modification and print)

• A complete, clean, operational-level Word Template (you modify it to build your business-specific compliance plan)

• The power of Word (tracking, spell and grammar checking, version control, sharing, changing “style”… making it easier to build the plan document and share professional reports with suppliers, customers, prospects, and auditors)

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Details about our Compliance Plan Template

Using C-TPAT’s Minimum Security Requirements for Importers as the example.

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Printed from downloaded PDF file.

C-TPAT Minimum Security Requirements for Importers; Business Partner Requirements

Reformatted into Word Template

C-TPAT Minimum Security Requirements for Importers; Business Partner Requirements

As edited to reflect the user’s unique compliance plan

C-TPAT Minimum Security Requirements for Importers; Business Partner Requirements

Example… Importer

Your Unique Compliance Plan

C-TPAT Minimum Security Requirements for Importers; Business Partner Requirements

Example… Importer

Unique and Professional-looking Plan Document

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Benefits: Compliance Document Template in Word

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Operational-level Requirement Statements: Where there were multiple possible responses within a single requirement statement, they were separated to allow for specific, operational-level responses.

Building your Unique Business Model: You are expected to reword requirements, add requirements, or drop requirements to build your unique business model; Word simplifies that task.

Your Organization’s Language: Use Word’s find-and-replace function to use the terms your staff and your business partners understand.

Organization Reporting Standards: Change the look-and-feel to match your organization’s reporting standards. Builds professional-looking reports for your business partners.

Microsoft Word: Use the features and functionality of Word for increased efficiency and accuracy (e.g. version control, sharing).

WE BUILT THE COMPLIANCE ASSESSMENT WORKSHEET IN EXCEL

Plan - Do – Check - Act

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From Plan to Excel-based Compliance Tracking

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Modifiable Excel Worksheet to match your Compliance Plan requirement

statements

Compliance Status Responses are in Drop-Down Lists and the 5-level

response options may be reworded as required.

Responses trigger Color-Coded Status Indicators that provide a simple yet

effective way to focus attention on areas for improvement)

Text fields for Storing Critical information such as document locations,

corrective actions required, responsible parties, etc.

Powerful Communication Tool that lets you exploit Excel’s functionality (and our

pre-formatted reports) with your own compliance team and external certification bodies.

Details about our Compliance Tracking Worksheet

Continuing with C-TPAT’s Minimum Security Requirements for Importers as the example.

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Plan Requirement ID Schema and Requirement Statements from Your Plan

Drop-Downs & Response Color Coding

Comments and Critical Information

Compliance Status Reporting

Benefits: Compliance Tracking Worksheet in Excel

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Working Repository: A compliance assessment worksheet that maintains the current status of compliance and simplifies the tasks of recording, analyzing, and documenting

Matching Your Business Model by rewording, adding, and removing requirements to reflected changes you made in the Plan Template

Drop-down Response-selection Options are as recommended by the guideline or standard provider although you may change the wording.

Color-coded Response Cells reflect the drop-down list option you selected and allows you to visually track progress; these cells may be hidden for reporting

Text Fields: Text fields provide a place to record comments, required corrective actions, and source document locations; you may hide these fields for reporting.

Microsoft Excel: Use the features and functionality of Excel for increased efficiency and accuracy.

Cost versus Value

Our Compliance Tool sets provide both structure and flexibility to help you build your Compliance Plan and track your Compliance to that Plan.

Could you build the Word and Excel files? Certainly. But… it will be a lot more time consuming than it may appear.

We believe cost is simply not a factor in a purchase decision. We have priced the tools so that financial pay-back is measurable in hours. We have provided the tools in Word and Excel, not PDF. You acquire an unlimited use license for your Business Unit.

We think your purchase decision should be based solely upon how the features and functions of the tools combine to support your compliance planning and execution; and, how improved presentation of you compliance plans to your current and potential business partners can increase your profits.

John E Griggs, Ph.D.