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Which side of the border are you on?

How we work

We do not estimate exposure. We reconcile it.

01  /  Where it comes from

Defense-grade modeling, carried into trade

02  /  What we look at

Three flows carry every supply chain

03  /  How we find the problem

By exception. Not by inspection.

The usual way

Inspect everything

Scope the whole estate, report in months, bill by scope.

The SIMS way

Open only the exceptions

Reconcile first, investigate only what disagrees, bill by findings.

04  /  The tools we use

Operations research and risk analytics

Supply chain engineering

Resolving time, quality and cost at once.

Risk analytics

Every exposure broken into threat, vulnerability and consequence.

Learn

On-demand classes

Self-paced masterclasses mapped to each service. Buy once, watch anytime.

Buy

Fixed-price services

Productized engagements with a clear price and a defined scope. Start without a call.

Your hub

Client portal

Upload and track your CTPAT certification and validation. Your compliance, in one place.

Read · free

Read first. Talk when you are ready.

Article

Budgeting 2.78% supply chain inflation? Audit the pass-through first.

Why an index-linked budget line hides a pass-through problem, and what to test in your own records before you accept the number.

Article

The Care Continuum Starts at the Source

Rachel Clark on why patient care begins long before the bedside, at the source.

Article · SIMS Integrity Index

Measuring diversion

How the Integrity Index reconciles price, movement and sale to put a number on gray-market diversion.

White paper

Security as the Byproduct of a Well-Run Supply Chain

The heritage paper: the mathematics of readiness, and why the end of de minimis is an asset-management problem.

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Learn · on-demand classes

Classes that map to our services

Maps to: CTPAT validation

The CTPAT Compliance Masterclass

$499

on-demand · lifetime access

The framework, taught by the team that trained CBP’s own validators, from corporate security through every Minimum Security Criteria category, with the templates auditors expect.

Includes your client hub

Maps to: IOR Exposure Review

Foreign Importer Readiness

coming soon · on-demand

Self-assess your importer-of-record exposure and build your path to a CTPAT-validated broker filing. The do-it-yourself version of the Exposure Review.

Maps to: Market access

US Market Entry for Devices

coming soon · on-demand

GPO and IDN access and the health-economic case, taught for device and pharma teams entering the US market.

Every class includes your hub

Learn it yourself, then hand us only what you want done

A class teaches the standard. An engagement executes it. Most clients do both, in that order.

Next step

Watch the class, then bring us in for the parts you would rather not run.

Your hub

Your compliance, in one place

One secure home for every document

Upload once. We read it, track it, and remind you before anything lapses.

No more hunting through inboxes for your power of attorney or your last validation report.

Encrypted at rest and in transit. You control who on your team and ours can see each document.

Illustrative view of a client hub

Next step

Open a hub with your first purchase

The free assessment opens a lightweight account. Everything after that lands in the same place.

Everything you can buy

One price list, four ways to start

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No signup

Led by Rachel Clark

A commercial operator, not just a consultant

SIMS Medical is led by Rachel Clark, a healthcare strategy and commercialization executive who has built value-selling programs, GPO and IDN strategies, and health-economic cases for device and pharma manufacturers. The result is a single partner who gets your product past customs and into the contracts that drive revenue.

SIMS Medical Market Entry

$150k to $500k+ · the full path

Priced to the market you unlock, not the hours we spend.

Next step

Start where it costs least

A market-entry review names your import position and your access path before you commit to either.

The firm

About SIMS World Wide

Supply chain & security practice

Dan Garcia

Director and Senior Analyst

Dan has spent three decades in supply chain engineering, customs and cargo security. He came to the field through stochastic modeling for the United States military, and carried one question into trade: what does this system actually do, as opposed to what the plan says it does.

He trained the original twenty CTPAT validators in 2001, then designed, delivered and evaluated CBP Supply Chain Security Specialist training for fourteen consecutive years. When a validator or an auditor reads your records today, Dan is advising you on how the people he trained will think.

“We view SIMS as a reliable and effective provider of supply chain security training.” Director, C-TPAT, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, 2008

Standing in the market

Recognition from the authorities SIMS works with, not from itself.

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1,500+ CBP regulatory auditors trained

Designed, delivered and evaluated CBP Supply Chain Security Specialist training over fourteen consecutive years, confirmed by a 2008 CBP letter of commendation.

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What Rachel does for you

Thirty minutes with Rachel. Bring the situation; leave with a scope and a next step.

About SIMS

Thirty years of getting it right before it was required

2001 · Hampton, Virginia

It started with fighter jets, not freight

SIMS came out of the Logistics Modeling Center, doing stochastic modeling for the United States military, much of it on the Joint Strike Fighter program. The work was mathematical and unglamorous: establish what a system will actually do, as opposed to what the plan says it will do. That question never changed. Only the cargo did.

September 2001

The plants went dark for want of parts

After the attacks, inspection tightened at more than three hundred U.S. ports of entry. The economic damage arrived within days, from a direction nobody had modeled: automobile plants in Michigan shut down. Not for want of demand, for want of imported parts a just-in-time system had assumed would always arrive.

A modern supply chain is a tightly wound mechanism. Security imposed without regard for how it runs can cost as much as the threat it was meant to address.

The argument in Washington

Make security pay for itself

The obvious move was to mandate physical security on the trade. SIMS argued the opposite: an unfunded mandate would be resisted, quietly, forever. Give companies a commercial reason, faster clearance, fewer exams, and they will build the controls themselves and pay for it out of the savings. That argument is the commercial logic C-TPAT was built on. SIMS trained the original twenty validators in 2001 and went on to design, deliver and evaluate CBP’s Supply Chain Security Specialist training for the next fourteen consecutive years.

May 2019

The hyphen quietly disappeared

For its first years it was written C-TPAT. When the Minimum Security Criteria were rewritten in 2019, the hyphen was dropped. Almost nobody noticed, which is exactly why it is useful: how a consultant spells it tells you whether they followed the program continuously or arrived after it was finished.

Read what someone writes. C-TPAT or CTPAT. It is a two-character background check.

The part that is actually about us

It took a year and a half to click

Dan Garcia has spent three decades in supply chain, customs and cargo security, and talks about where the field is going rather than where it is. Rachel Clark came from the commercial side, and spent eighteen months unable to see how the two worlds fit together. Then it clicked. Everything on this site is what happened next: the system Dan had been describing, built into something a company can buy.

One of us sees it first. One of us ships it. Neither works without the other.

Doctrine

Integrity is not an outcome. It is a system. A well-managed supply chain is inherently secure.

Mission

Help governments, manufacturers, healthcare organizations and logistics providers build supply chains that are secure by design, resilient by operation and measurable by outcome.

Why it matters

Trust in the movement of goods, information and capital: for commerce, for patient access, and for economic resilience.

The five problems we fix

Which one sounds like yours?

Improved customs compliance

Inspection-by-default holds compliant freight. A trusted-trader posture built on real controls, not paperwork, converts dwell days into working capital.

“Our entries would not survive a pulled file.”

Stop diversion

Product that leaves the authorized channel displaces a full-price sale and, in regulated goods, becomes a safety event. Custody has to be provable to the lot.

“Our product turns up where we never sold it.”

Recover money

Duty you overpaid, drawback you never filed, rebates paid on transactions that did not qualify. Measurable, documented, and mostly recoverable.

“We are almost certainly overpaying duty.”

Withstand attack

Theft, tampering, insider circumvention, and cargo used to carry something it should not. An attack on the chain is a custody failure before it is a security incident.

“We cannot prove who held the goods.”

Capacity building & training

People, process, technology. The order matters. We ensure personnel are proficient in the standard operating procedures and policies they are accountable for, and aware of the risks those controls exist to catch.

“A control failed because nobody knew the procedure.”

Proof · evidence & results

Evidence before assertion

Verified result

Supported by documented client evidence.

Measured finding

Quantified through assessment or analysis.

Observed outcome

Documented, not independently validated.

Illustrative

Explains method only. Never a client result.

Global health & medical manufacturer

of gray-market diversion, quantified in 3 years of channel data

Unauthorized product had climbed to 12% of direct purchases, 74% of one flagship line, with rebate claims exceeding actual purchases by ~$200K a year. Lot-level custody proves the diversion to the lot, so the recovery is enforceable, not argued.

Med-surg distributor · working capital

on the GLaaS™ platform · payback in 1.4 months

Six days of border dwell removed by the green lane freed $1.2M of trapped cash, equal to $30M of new sales. With shrinkage recovered and inventory velocity gained: $1.26M recurring benefit per year and $1.8M released from the balance sheet.

A national authority needed to prove cargo integrity end to end without inspecting everything, the trade-off that slows every corridor.

Provided critical assistance to SUNAT, Peru on the Superior Custodial Control Pilot, designing the control model and the evidence chain behind it.

Formal recognition from the national authority, with elements of the work incorporated into Peruvian law.

11.1M TEU

brought under one national custody metric

5 ports

gateway ports sealed inside one month

60 sec

tamper-to-alarm on a sealed container

To the lot

diversion proven, not argued

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National program architecture

AEO/OEA program design and modernization, validation methodology, and mutual-recognition readiness.

02

Risk, selectivity & post-clearance

Risk engines, anomaly methodology, post-clearance controls, and the metrics that show whether they work.

03

Secure corridors & interoperability

Corridor design, e-seal and tracking integration, and connecting Port Community Systems and National Single Windows with digital trade corridors.

04

Program delivery & funding

Initiation, governance, implementation planning, stakeholder adoption, and donor-ready submissions.

05

Institutional capability

The curriculum discipline behind more than 1,500 trained CBP regulatory auditors, adapted to a national program.

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Measurement

Continuous evidence that an authorized operator still operates the way it was authorized to.

Start with one corridor

Before a national commitment, run a bounded pilot that puts seals on real consignments and binds the result to the declaration. We have delivered one at national scale in southern Africa.

Diagnostic

How to make a border provable

Eight questions that tell an authority how exposed it is, and what a provable corridor would have to demonstrate.

Engagement model

Corridor pilots

The five phases of a corridor pilot, what closes out at each one, and what the authority receives.

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Government & multilateral

5 authorities

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The questions we get asked first

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Corporate profile 2026

The whole firm, in nineteen sections

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