Conflict Minerals (3TG) Reporting Software
Answer conflict minerals (3TG) surveys from your ERP. 3TG-flagged BOMs, part-to-supplier sourcing trails, lot traceability, and audit-ready CMRT evidence.
Conflict minerals reporting is the disclosure of whether the tin, tantalum, tungsten, and gold (3TG) in your products originate from the Democratic Republic of the Congo or adjoining countries, and whether those minerals financed armed conflict. It matters because SEC Rule 13p-1 under the Dodd-Frank Act requires affected issuers to conduct supply chain due diligence and file a Conflict Minerals Report, and those issuers push the same survey down to every supplier in their bill of materials, so even private manufacturers must respond with credible, part-level sourcing data. WorkCell does not file your disclosure for you, but its multi-level versioned BOMs, lot and serial traceability, supplier records, and document control give you the part-to-smelter sourcing trail that turns an annual conflict minerals scramble into a query.
Sound Familiar?
Conflict minerals surveys answered from memory
A customer drops a CMRT spreadsheet on you every January, and your team guesses which parts contain 3TG because the smelter and country-of-origin data lives in supplier emails, not in the bill of materials, so the declaration you return is a best effort that no auditor would trust.
No line from finished good back to the part that contains 3TG
When a primary asks which products contain tantalum capacitors or gold-plated contacts, you cannot trace it because the BOM, the purchase orders, and the supplier certs sit in three disconnected systems, so you cannot scope your declaration to the parts that actually carry conflict minerals.
Supplier responses with no audit trail
You collect conflict minerals declarations as loose PDFs, you cannot tell which BOM revision a response covers, and when a supplier changes a component you have no record of whether the new part was ever surveyed, so your due diligence has gaps the moment engineering releases a revision.
Reconstructing the same report every year
Each reporting cycle your quality and purchasing teams rebuild the smelter list, re-chase the same vendors, and re-map components to 3TG categories from scratch, because last year's evidence was never captured against the parts and suppliers it described.
Core Capabilities
3TG flags on multi-level BOMs
Mark items and components that contain tin, tantalum, tungsten, or gold, and roll those flags up through multi-level versioned BOMs, so any finished good shows exactly which sub-assemblies and parts bring 3TG into scope. Because BOMs are versioned with effective dating, a declaration is always tied to the revision it actually describes.
Part-to-supplier sourcing trail
Every component links to the purchase orders and suppliers it was bought from, with partial receipts and supplier records captured at the PO level, so when you scope a conflict minerals declaration you can see which vendor supplied each 3TG-bearing part and which receipts it covers.
Lot and serial traceability to country of origin
End-to-end lot and serial traceability ties received material to the lots and serials built into finished goods, so a customer asking which shipments contain a given 3TG component gets a genealogy answer instead of a spreadsheet guess.
Supplier declarations as controlled documents
Store CMRT responses, smelter lists, and country-of-origin certs against the supplier and the parts they cover, version-controlled and queryable, so your due diligence evidence stays attached to the records it describes instead of living in an inbox.
Quality and supplier management for due diligence
Track supplier conformance with inspection templates, NCRs, and supplier quality metrics, so a vendor that returns an incomplete or smelter-unidentified declaration is flagged the same way any other supplier nonconformance is, and follow-up is owned rather than forgotten.
Audit-ready evidence on demand
Because 3TG flags, supplier sources, lot genealogy, and declaration documents all hang off the same part, BOM, PO, and lot records the shop floor runs against, you pull conflict minerals evidence by part, supplier, or date range when a customer or auditor asks, instead of reconstructing it.
By The Numbers
Year the SEC adopted Rule 13p-1, the conflict minerals disclosure rule under Section 1502 of the Dodd-Frank Act
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
The 3TG minerals covered by the rule: tin, tantalum, tungsten, and gold
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Rule 13p-1
The covered countries: the Democratic Republic of the Congo plus its nine adjoining nations whose 3TG sourcing triggers due diligence
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Connected Modules
Purchasing
Purchase orders, supplier records, and partial receipts capture which vendor supplied each 3TG-bearing component, the sourcing trail every conflict minerals declaration depends on.
Engineering
Multi-level versioned BOMs carry the 3TG flags and effective dating that scope a declaration to the exact revision and components that contain conflict minerals.
Quality
Supplier quality metrics, NCRs, and controlled documents turn incomplete supplier declarations into tracked nonconformances and keep due diligence evidence audit-ready.
Common Questions
What are conflict minerals?
Conflict minerals are tin, tantalum, tungsten, and gold, collectively called 3TG, when they originate from the Democratic Republic of the Congo or an adjoining country and may have financed armed conflict. Under SEC Rule 13p-1, companies that file with the SEC and manufacture products containing 3TG must conduct supply chain due diligence and disclose their findings, and they pass that requirement down to their suppliers.
Who has to comply with conflict minerals reporting?
The SEC rule legally applies to SEC-reporting issuers that manufacture or contract to manufacture products where 3TG is necessary to functionality or production. In practice the obligation cascades far wider: those issuers require conflict minerals declarations from every supplier in their bill of materials, so private manufacturers, contract shops, and tier-2 and tier-3 suppliers must respond with part-level 3TG sourcing data even though they never file with the SEC.
What is the CMRT and how does WorkCell help me complete it?
The Conflict Minerals Reporting Template (CMRT) is the standardized survey, maintained by the Responsible Minerals Initiative, that companies use to collect 3TG smelter and country-of-origin data from suppliers. WorkCell does not file the CMRT for you, but its 3TG-flagged BOMs, supplier sourcing trail, and document control let you scope which products are in question and assemble the part-level evidence a credible CMRT response requires.
Does WorkCell make my company conflict minerals compliant?
Compliance is a process you own, not a product you buy, and WorkCell is not itself certified to any standard. What WorkCell provides is the data backbone that makes due diligence achievable: 3TG flags rolled up through versioned BOMs, every part linked to the supplier and PO it came from, lot and serial genealogy from receipt to shipment, and supplier declarations stored as controlled documents tied to the parts they cover.
How does WorkCell trace 3TG from a finished product back to its source?
WorkCell flags 3TG-bearing items and rolls those flags up through multi-level versioned BOMs, so a finished good shows every sub-assembly and component that brings conflict minerals into scope. Each of those components links to the purchase orders and suppliers it was sourced from, and lot and serial traceability ties received material to the lots built into shipments, giving you a continuous trail from product to supplier.
How do I keep conflict minerals due diligence audit-ready?
Store every supplier CMRT response, smelter list, and country-of-origin cert as a controlled document tied to the supplier and the parts it covers, and track incomplete or unidentified-smelter responses as supplier nonconformances so follow-up is owned. Because that evidence hangs off the same part, BOM, PO, and lot records your shop floor runs against, you can produce it by part, supplier, or date range whenever a customer or auditor asks.
Conflict Minerals (3TG) Reporting Software
Answer your next conflict minerals survey from your data, not from memory.