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SCAN Appoints Carlos Ochoa as New Executive Director

SCAN Appoints Carlos Ochoa as New Executive Director

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PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release, Monday, September 22, 2025

The Supplier Compliance Audit Network (SCAN), an association comprised of trade compliance experts, is proud to announce the appointment of Carlos Ochoa as Executive Director, effective immediately.

Carlos brings a wealth of experience in global trade compliance, supply chain security, and strategic partnerships, most recently serving as Branch Chief at U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) within the CTPAT Partnerships and Engagement Branch. He has been a long-standing advocate for collaborative security initiatives and has played a pivotal role in strengthening the relationship between SCAN and CBP. Carlos’ leadership was instrumental in the signing of the 2024 Joint Statement between SCAN and U.S. Customs, which formally recognized SCAN as a best practice in supply chain security.

“I am thrilled to welcome Carlos Ochoa as SCAN’s new Executive Director! His deep expertise in government and industry collaboration will be a game-changer for SCAN. I am excited for what’s ahead under his leadership.”
Jen Kissner, SCAN Board Chair

In his new role, Carlos will guide SCAN’s strategic direction, deepen member engagement, and expand our audit-sharing platform. His appointment marks a significant milestone in SCAN’s evolution as the leading trade association for supply chain security.

“I’m honored to share that I’ve been selected as the new Executive Director of the SCAN Association. It’s a privilege to step into this role and continue advancing SCAN’s mission to strengthen global supply chain security through collaboration, innovation, and industry leadership.”
Carlos Ochoa, SCAN Executive Director

Founded in 2014, SCAN is a member driven organization that leverages shared audits to provide a best in class security compliance assessment for importers, reduce audit fatigue on global suppliers, and improve the overall operational cost and efficiency of the global supply chain. With 62 members and over 32,000 registered global suppliers, SCAN continues to set the standard for collaboration and trade compliance excellence.

BSI is Providing Complimentary Access to In-depth COVID-19 Related Supply Chain Insights and Intelligence

BSI is Providing Complimentary Access to In-depth COVID-19 Related Supply Chain Insights and Intelligence

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April 2020 – BSI, the business improvement company, announced today that they are providing open access to the COVID-19 section of their Supply Chain Risk Exposure Evaluation Network (SCREEN) tool.

SCREEN is a web-based, comprehensive global supply chain intelligence system available by subscription, which includes valuable information for companies to anticipate, quickly respond to, and avoid supply chain disruptions.

As referenced in BSI’s recently released Supply Chain Risk Insights 2020 Report, the COVID-19 outbreak has highlighted the current fragility of global supply chains, wherein the failure of one link in the chain has the potential to cause extensive disruptions throughout.

As the pandemic has progressed, causing considerable disruption to every-day life and a negative impact on the workforce, companies have had to significantly re-evaluate their supply chains. Initially this was caused by the downtime and slowed restart of Chinese manufacturing, however the continued spread of the pandemic has led to complex and varied responses by individual governments to contain the virus, creating further disruptions and requiring businesses to adopt adaptive business continuity measures.

Whether this means that restaurants are closing their dining rooms and only providing carry-out and delivery, or hospitals restricting access to anyone other than critical patients, the New Not Normal is here and the need for comprehensive business continuity planning that considers all types of potential natural disasters, including disease outbreaks, has never been more acute.

Lessons learned from the COVID-19 outbreak about how to better mitigate disease spread and absorb delays to manufacturing and global shipping will shape how organizations and supply chains are effectively able to respond to other disruptions in the future.

For this reason, BSI is providing open access to SCREEN’s COVID-19 intelligence. “These insights will allow companies to sharpen their actions in the face of this crisis, focus their business continuity plans for their recovery and have a stronger continuity plan for the future,” said Jim Yarbrough, Global Intelligence Program Manager at BSI. “Our priority is to bring the global community reliable and actionable insights and information, curated by our team of experts, around COVID-19 to protect public health and mitigate business disruption.”

To view the SCREEN COVID-19 intelligence, visit: screen.bsigroup.com/Covid19/

The Supplier Compliance Audit Network announces its support of the Customs Trade Partnership Against Terrorism – Updated Minimum Security Criteria.

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May 2019 – Newark, De.

Supplier Compliance Audit Network (SCAN) as an organization of US and Canada based importers with a common goal of facilitation of international supply chain security compliance enthusiastically endorses the efforts of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to refresh and update the Customs Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (CTPAT) Minimum Security Criteria (MSC). SCAN has performed over 9000 supply chain security audits in the past 5 years and has a repository of 16000 factories locations. SCAN members participated in the Advisory Committee On Commercial Operations (COAC) that provided input and feedback during the drafting and review of new MSC. SCAN is looking forward to leading the socialization of the new MSC. SCAN intends to begin conducting audit in the 2nd half of 2019 utilizing the New MSC in an effort assess compliance lead in the completion of corrective and preventative action plans intended to prepare its members for audits and validations against these new criteria in 2020.

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