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ASSENT COMPLIANCEBuilding a Conflict Minerals Program 2015/16

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About Assent: Your Partner For…

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Assent & Conflict Minerals

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Today’s Presenters

Jon HughesAssent ComplianceConflict Minerals Program Lead

Karen GdulaMSA Corporation

Product Compliance Project Manager

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About MSA

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The MSA Conflict Mineral Program:The Challenges

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Program Outline

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The Results: Overview

• 100% of Suppliers Contacted

• 1193 CMRT’s Received and Validated ~62%

• Number 1 Amongst Peers

• Top 10 in B2B Based Companies

• 18th Highest Score in Dr. Chris Bayer’s Benchmarking Study ofAll Filers

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Lesson’s Learned

• Solid Conflict Minerals Team

• Communicate with Suppliers in Native Language

• Low response from France last year• This year MSA sent an email to the French

Suppliers with LOA

• Increase Regulatory Awareness• Internal Supply Chain Training• Supplier Training

• Product Level Declarations - REACH, RoHS and Conflict Minerals

• Loading bills of material into ACM

• Data Integrity, Data Scrubbing• Garbage In, Garbage Out

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It’s Demo Time!

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Looking Ahead…