Assent

“In the early days, we could manage these programs across our business, but as reporting requirements and new regulations emerged, we realized we needed a solution to consolidate our findings and enable us to respond to increasing customer demands and emerging legislation.”

“Over 90% of our environmental impact is in our supply chain, not within the walls of our organization. We’re using the Assent system to track supplier product compliance and sustainability.”

“Assent saves me having to talk to suppliers or our purchasers in procurement. I just need to know what’s in the part, and I can have a complete full material disclosure ready for our customers in minutes.”

“When a regulatory request comes in that falls outside our usual compliance requirements, Assent’s experts are there to help explain how we should respond. We don’t have anyone on staff dedicated to environmental science or regulatory research, so it’s a game changer for us.”

“The professionalism and the proactiveness have been great. We have the ability to access information and turn it around to our customers quickly.”

“Since switching to Assent, we’ve had a much quicker turnaround on supplier data and much less management on our side. Our costs are lower because personnel don’t have to manage these processes.”

“It was pretty easy, actually; it wasn’t a big process… Wherever we start seeing queries bubble up from customers, we look at Assent’s offerings and see it’s already there. We don’t have to be doing it ourselves — we can get it from Assent.”

“Knowing that Assent is helping us and even just saying, okay, send this letter to the state, we can help you get this program off the ground, has been really helpful. We don’t have to figure it out ourselves.”

“Without Assent, we simply wouldn’t have the bandwidth to do it… In the last two years, we’ve responded to approximately 4,900 customer requests with Assent’s help.”

“Our culture of proactive compliance definitely benefits the bottom line, which is what we need to prioritize. If we’re not making money, we’re not in business.”

“We did talk to competitors and some other groups, but we really liked the Assent platform. We liked the people we were dealing with.”

“There’s no cutting corners. When employees see that our executive leadership is signing onto compliance policies and assisting with what we’re doing… It helps to promote a culture of compliance. If we’re not making money, we’re not in business, and that’s the goal of any corporate entity — but we want to do it the right way and doing what we have to do to be a good corporate citizen and to be a good partner within our supply chains.”

“At our scale, we’d have had to hire a dedicated compliance person just to handle everything. Assent gave us the legal confidence, data, and expert support we needed.”

“The Assent database is so much larger than anything else. For many parts, Assent already has the data, so we don’t have to send a campaign at all.”

“I tried reading through the REACH Regulation, but it was impossible to stay on top of it without an expert. I’m an electrical engineer — I have no idea. That’s why we rely on Assent for regulatory expertise.”

“We couldn’t keep up with REACH, RoHS, PFAS, and conflict minerals on our own. We needed a third party that had the expertise and data. That’s where Assent came in.”

“We’d need a full-time employee just to chase suppliers. Assent’s platform and expertise saves us that headcount and keeps us audit-ready.”

“Assent was a no‐brainer. All the data is in one place and instantly filterable by supplier — exactly what we needed to prove compliance.”

““We rely on Assent’s experts to help educate suppliers and keep us ahead of regulatory updates.””

“At least 60% of our revenue hinges on having rapid access to compliance data. If you can’t get buyers that data on demand, they’re walking away and finding someone else who can.”

“Now [suppliers] give us better data and respond to us faster, because they understand the why. Not just for themselves or with GE Appliances, but globally.”

“Our goals were simple: to obtain accurate and relevant information from our suppliers in a timely manner that would support our compliance and sustainability, and save money… With Assent, we do just that.”

“To do it ourselves, we’re probably looking at two to three full-time employees, plus all the associated costs,”

“We have Assent behind us with employees that can speak all these different languages — plus, they’ll do the research and keep us up to date on regulatory changes and our requirements.”

“It took the heavy lifting of data collection off our plates.”