How the measurement works

One SKU, one authorized price. Every price it actually sold at.

For each SKU the Index holds the price you authorized, then reads every price it actually sold at. Any sale outside the band becomes an exception with a dollar value: the gap times the units that moved.

Observed prices, 90 days

Exposure = (authorized price minus actual price) × units. Shown as modeled exposure, not a realized loss, until each exception is validated against evidence.

What the outcomes look like

Four engagements, four kinds of number.

What we do

Twelve services. One operating system.

01  /  START FROM THE PROBLEM

Five outcomes, not twelve service names

Most buyers arrive with a symptom rather than a service name. Pick the outcome you are accountable for.

02  /  WHAT IT COSTS

Published ranges, no discovery call first

Free tools, subscriptions, classes and scoped engagements, with the ranges stated up front.

03  /  READY TO TALK

Thirty minutes on your own records

No pitch deck. We look at the exposure sitting in the data you already keep, and tell you what it is worth measuring properly.

01  /  CTPAT, AEO/OEA AND PIP

Trusted-Trader Programs

Certification is not paperwork. It is a documented control environment a validator can test, and it has to survive the visit.

What it includes

Built for
Importers, exporters, foreign manufacturers, forwarders and brokers, rail, air, sea and highway carriers, consolidators, port and terminal operators

02  /  REASONABLE CARE, MADE TESTABLE

Customs Compliance & Duty Performance

Pay no more duty than the law requires, and be able to prove every decision behind it when the entry file is pulled.

What it includes

Built for
General counsel, CFOs, controllers, internal audit, customs and supply chain leaders

03  /  CUSTODY, MADE EVIDENTIARY

Cargo Integrity & Secure Corridors

Most operators can say where a container is. Few can reconstruct where it went and who held it at each step, and prove it.

What it includes

Built for
Customs administrations, shippers, carriers, manufacturers, security leaders, insurers

04  /  POLICY INTO OPERATIONS

Sovereign Customs Modernization

The practitioner layer between what a national program says and what its officers actually do on Monday.

What it includes

Built for
Revenue authorities, customs administrations, finance ministries, development partners, prime contractors

05  /  THE NETWORK, NOT THE FREIGHT RATE

Supply-Chain Analysis & Operating Design

Design against total landed cost, service, resilience, customs exposure and custody risk. Freight cost alone optimizes the wrong thing.

What it includes

Built for
COOs, VPs of supply chain, logistics and operations leaders

06  /  CONTINUOUS EVIDENCE, NOT ANOTHER DASHBOARD

Trade Technology & Data

Turn shipment, customs, financial and compliance records into evidence that holds, and decisions someone can act on.

What it includes

Built for
Customs authorities, ports, trusted-trader programs, importers, exporters, technology partners

Expertise & method

We do not estimate exposure. We reconcile it.

The letter, 2008

“We view SIMS as a reliable and effective provider of supply chain security training.”

Director, C-TPAT, U.S. Customs and Border Protection

Written after seven of the fourteen consecutive years SIMS designed, delivered and evaluated CBP Supply Chain Security Specialist training. Click the letter to read it in full.

Security isn’t something we add to a supply chain.

It’s what a well-run supply chain produces.

Run a chain to that standard and security stops being an expense line. It becomes the residue of good engineering, and it can be proven rather than asserted.

Three flows carry every supply chain. When they agree, integrity exists. When they disagree, the disagreement is the finding, and that is where the work starts.

A disciplined supply chain is

three immutable flows

Where this lands

The method exists to produce five outcomes

Improved customs compliance, stopped diversion, recovered money, a chain that withstands attack, and capability that stays after we leave.

Next step

Thirty minutes on what your own records already show.

Everything SIMS, without the wait

The SIMS Resource Hub

Read · free

Read first. Talk when you are ready.

Guide

The Foreign Importer Survival Guide

Recent enforcement changes in plain terms: which class you fall into, what now applies, and how to keep goods moving.

Guide

The Grey-Market Blind Spot

How unauthorized product slips into your channel, and the controls that shut the door.

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.

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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Every new rule, the day it drops

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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

01Free

No signup

Free

Free

Free

02Subscriptions

Monthly or annual

$29.99 / mo

$149.99 / mo

$8k to $25k / mo

03Learn

Buy once, lifetime access

$499

Coming soon

Coming soon

04Engagements

Scoped per client

Flat fee

Firm fixed fee
$50k to $120k

Firm fixed fee
$75k to $150k

Scoped

Success fee

$150k to $500k+

What we ask on the scoping call

Where most engagements land

The fee is fixed once scope is agreed in writing. If scope changes, we requote rather than invoice the difference. Certification and validation remain agency decisions and are never guaranteed.

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 technical analysis and rigor with which you addressed the reconciliation of physical, documentary, and financial flows represent a valuable contribution to the modernization of control processes throughout the region.”

Carlos Rafael Chirinos Gómez, National Intendant
Customs and Tax Institute (IAT) · SUNAT · WCO Regional Training Centre, Peru

Letter No. 000087-2026-SUNAT/1S0000 · Callao, 9 Sept 2026

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.

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.

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.”

When it is wrong

◆Compliant freight held for exam by default, not by exception.

◆A trusted-trader posture that lives in a binder instead of in controls.

◆Dwell days you cannot forecast, so safety stock absorbs the risk.

◆A validation visit you are not confident would go well.

The work behind it

What we sellGLaaS™, inside the Platform

What it is worth

6 days

border dwell removed on one program, freeing $1.2M of trapped cash

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.”

When it is wrong

◆Your product surfacing in a market or account you never authorized.

◆Distributor tracings that do not reconcile to what you billed.

◆Rebates paid on volume that left the territory.

◆In regulated goods, a patient-safety event before a financial one.

The work behind it

What we sellthe ten-day Diagnostic™

What it is worth

$5.5M

of gray-market diversion quantified across three years of channel data

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.”

When it is wrong

◆Duty overpaid because classification drifted and nobody audited it.

◆Drawback you are eligible for and have never filed.

◆Rebate claims exceeding the purchases that qualified for them.

◆Tariffs that restructured overnight and a landed cost nobody re-ran.

The work behind it

What we sellthe ten-day Diagnostic™

What it is worth

$2.7M

of rebate overpayment identified, alongside $700K of duty refund opportunity

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.”

When it is wrong

◆Cargo arriving short, tampered, or opened by someone nobody can name.

◆A handoff subcontracted to a carrier that appears in no contract.

◆Insiders using authorized access to move product outside the channel.

◆A parasitic load riding inside legitimate freight, on your bond.

The work behind it

What we sellGLaaS™, inside the Platform

What it is worth

To the lot

traceability, so diversion is proven rather than argued

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.”

When it is wrong

◆Controls that depend on one person who knows how it works.

◆A team inheriting a program they were never trained to run.

◆Analytics you bought but do not have the discipline to act on.

◆Findings that arrive as a deck and die there.

The work behind it

What we sellSIMS Integrity Index™

What it is worth

1,500+

CBP regulatory auditors trained over fourteen consecutive years

Start here to narrow to your vertical's specific challenges.

Then pick your primary business driver, margin, speed, risk, or growth.

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

01

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

Programme 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.

06

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.

02

Government & multilateral

5 authorities

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The questions we get asked first

If your question is not here, ask it directly.

Corporate profile 2026

The whole firm, in nineteen sections

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The Integrity Platform runs from a free five-question snapshot through to recurring measurement. Pick the step that fits before you book.

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Pick a time that works

Thirty minutes with the SIMS trade team. No form, no gatekeeping, you will be talking to someone who has done the work.