Substance compliance evidence — captured, current, and queryable.
The Regulatory Affairs Manager at a manufacturer carries customer-facing and regulator-facing responsibility for substance and product-stewardship compliance: EU REACH (registration + SVHC declarations), EU RoHS (substance restrictions), Dodd-Frank §1502 conflict minerals, California Prop 65, EU CBAM (carbon border adjustment), per-country WEEE / batteries / packaging. The customer asks; the supplier-pack arrives slowly.
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"REACH, RoHS, conflict-minerals — customers ask, suppliers send PDFs, we re-key into spreadsheets."
"REACH, RoHS, conflict-minerals — customers ask, suppliers send PDFs, we re-key into spreadsheets. Then we discover the supplier sent us last year's declaration." — Regulatory Affairs Manager
What TeamSync gives the regulatory affairs manager.
1. Substance declarations as TeamSync structured documents.
Supplier substance declarations (REACH SVHC, RoHS exemption use, conflict-minerals CMRT, Prop 65) modelled as TeamSync structured documents with required metadata typed (part number, substance, threshold, declaration date, declaring entity, supplier signature).
2. Metadata extraction reads supplier PDFs automatically.
Metadata Extraction, OCR & ICR reads supplier-issued PDFs (CMRT spreadsheets, REACH declarations, RoHS letters) and populates the structured fields. Re-keying disappears.
3. Continuous freshness monitoring.
Business Process Automation tracks declaration age and triggers refresh-request workflow. Suppliers prompted before customer-audit window, not during.
4. Customer-audit response as a generated package.
Customer asks "show me REACH compliance for assemblies X, Y, Z" — TeamSync produces the per-part declaration pack with supplier signatures, declaration dates, and substance tables. Hours, not weeks.
5. Audit ledger anchors every declaration event.
Declaration receipt, freshness check, customer-pack release — anchored in the Merkle audit ledger. Regulator inquiry on substance compliance answered from cryptographic record.
What changes for the regulatory affairs manager.
| Concern | What changes |
|---|---|
| Supplier-PDF re-keying | Eliminated via extraction |
| Stale-declaration risk | Caught by freshness monitoring |
| Customer-audit response time | Hours, not weeks |
| Regulator-inquiry defensibility | Cryptographic record |
| Coverage of new regs (CBAM, packaging) | Same workflow |
Compliance frameworks served.
| Framework | Coverage |
|---|---|
| EU REACH (incl. SVHC) | Substance registration + declaration |
| EU RoHS | Restricted substance compliance |
| EU CBAM | Carbon border adjustment evidence |
| Dodd-Frank §1502 | Conflict-minerals (CMRT) |
| California Prop 65 | Warning compliance |
| WEEE / batteries / packaging | Per-country product stewardship |
| SOC 2, ISO 27001 | Cross-vertical |
How TeamSync compares for substance-compliance evidence.
| Capability | TeamSync | Assent | iPoint Compliance Agent | Source Intelligence | Sphera Substance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Substance declarations as structured records | ✅ | Assent | iPoint | Source | Sphera |
| Auto-extraction from supplier PDFs | ✅ ICR | Assent | iPoint | Source | Limited |
| Customer-audit pack generation | ✅ | Assent | iPoint | Source | Sphera |
| Coverage outside REACH/RoHS (CBAM, packaging) | ✅ | Expanding | Expanding | Expanding | Expanding |
| Cryptographic audit on declarations | ✅ Merkle | Standard log | Standard log | Standard log | Standard log |
Important: TeamSync coexists with Assent / iPoint / Source Intelligence / Sphera — those are specialist substance-compliance platforms. entry point for TeamSync: manufacturers that want substance-declaration records as part of the broader document estate (PLM linkage, customer-correspondence linkage, audit chain) rather than a separate silo, and for emerging regs where the specialists haven't built dedicated workflows yet.
CTAs.
| If you are… | Do this |
|---|---|
| Regulatory Affairs Manager | Talk to a solutions engineer |
| Supplier Quality Director | Read the supplier quality director page |
| VP Engineering | Read the VP Engineering page |
Related capabilities
- Intelligent Repository, Metadata Extraction, OCR & ICR, DocuTalk, Business Process Automation, Tamper-evident audit ledger