Assent Inc. (Assent), the manufacturing industry’s leading Product Intelligence Network, today announced the general availability of the Assent Distributor Experience, built for distributors that must collect, manage, and share compliance data across large, constantly changing product catalogs.

Distributors are often the first call when a compliance declaration is missing, even though they didn’t manufacture the part in question. They’re accountable for outcomes they can’t control: SKU-level requests at a scale manual processes can’t support, sourced from thousands of suppliers they don’t own. Inconsistent part data and fragmented, email-driven workflows make it worse, leaving distributors without a single system of record.

The stakes keep rising. Buyers and OEMs now expect near-instant compliance answers and write that expectation into contracts and RFQs. Regulations like PFAS, TSCA, and REACH demand more frequent updates than manual processes can deliver. At the same time, rising labor costs make adding more people to chase suppliers an unsustainable solution.

“Distributors are being held accountable for compliance information they do not create, across product catalogs too large and dynamic for manual processes,” said Brinda Harper, SVP of Product at Assent. “The Assent Distributor Experience changes that model by connecting distributor catalogs, supplier data, and customer requests on the Assent Network. It gives distributors a scalable way to protect revenue, strengthen customer trust, and turn compliance responsiveness into a competitive advantage.”

Built on the Assent Network, the Assent Distributor Experience enables distributors to leverage existing declarations and an active supplier base from day one, helping them begin with relevant data already available rather than building a supplier program entirely from scratch.

Key features include:

  • Scalable Catalog: Load and manage large product catalogs and supplier lists without bill-of-materials dependency.

  • AI Product Matching & Validation: Automatically match customer, distributor, and manufacturer product and part numbers, with guided confirmation for accurate, auditable data.

  • Automated Customer Request Management: Bring every customer compliance request, from any customer, into one place, then auto-parse, match, and fulfill using existing declarations.

  • Streamlined Data Collection & Reuse: Reuse existing compliance data from the Assent Network and collect what’s missing through automated supplier workflows.

  • Program Health Monitoring: Access real-time dashboards on compliance coverage, supplier participation, matching confidence, and customer response rates.

With the Assent Distributor Experience, distributors can:

  • Respond to every customer request, Assent or not, quickly and consistently, protecting renewals and revenue.

  • Reduce risk from undocumented SKUs with real-time visibility into declaration coverage across their entire catalog.

  • Reduce supplier chasing and internal back-and-forth with automated outreach, reminders, and role-based routing.

  • Handle higher request volumes more efficiently by centralizing and reusing data across requests.

  • Track customer and supplier requests in one place, supporting daily execution and executive-level reporting.

The Assent Distributor Experience is available now for organizations that operate exclusively as distributors and do not also manufacture products.

Learn more about the Assent Distributor Experience here, or book a demo to see it in action.

About Assent

Assent is the manufacturing industry’s leading Product Intelligence Network, providing the transparency and confidence manufacturers and distributors need to build and deliver products the world can trust. By combining the industry’s most complete part and supplier data network with deep regulatory expertise, Assent equips compliance, engineering, procurement, and sustainability teams with the product material compliance, product sustainability, and responsible sourcing intelligence they need to make informed decisions throughout the full design-to-delivery manufacturing lifecycle and beyond.

More than 1,250 manufacturers and distributors rely on Assent, including Boeing, Toshiba, and Johnson & Johnson to simplify the complexity behind product compliance, sustainability, and responsible sourcing. Learn more at www.assent.com.

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