C-TPAT ASAP© – The Quick, Comprehensive Approach to Supply Chain Security

C-TPAT ASAP© provides importers and their business partners with an efficient tool that provides a broad assessment of the whole range of supply chain security risks. The C-TPAT ASAP© survey asks specific questions concerning business partners , container security, physical access controls, personnel security, procedural security, threat awareness and security training, physical security and information technology security. C-TPAT ASAP© presents sets of questions regarding your company’s supply chain, grouped by
topic, to which you provide answers. C-TPAT ASAP© creates an answer file that contains your
responses. Upon completion of the questions, you email the file to us. Within 24 hours, you will
receive a report summarizing your C-TPAT supply chain risk.

PRODUCTS

Through the use of scoring algorithms, C-TPAT ASAP© survey responses are compiled into a risk assessment report which includes:

Overview of an organization’s supply chain security
Overall business risk as well as risk by specific topic
Profile of each audit area
Road-map of risk
Concise improvement recommendations for action

Since nearly all companies have numerous parties in their supply chain, Importers must complete all the survey questions and have their business partners do likewise. Business partners include manufacturers, part and component suppliers, freight forwarders, air/sea/motor carriers, terminal operator and customs brokers. Each importer must include information about these parties in their certification. C-TPAT ASAP provides an efficient tool to gather and analyze this information.

C-TPAT ASAP© will establish an organization’s readiness for apply for C-TPAT certification as well as provide an efficient means to ensure compliance is maintained.