Case Study: Leading Data Storage Device Manufacturing Company achieves automated, accelerated conflict minerals compliance and customer reporting with MetricStream

A Leading Technology Company Automates and Accelerates Conflict Minerals Compliance Management and Customer Reporting across Thousands of Product Components

One of the world’s largest data storage device manufacturers faced a highly manual, time-consuming conflict minerals compliance process. To produce SEC- and customer-required reports the team had to sift through more than one million records, hundreds of thousands of materials, and over 1,000 suppliers to map BOMs, identify 3TG sources and smelters, and manually track changes — a process that often took weeks, created data redundancies, and risked missed deadlines.

The company implemented the MetricStream Conflict Minerals Compliance Management App to centralize and automate data capture, BOM mapping, multi-system integration, change detection, and supplier survey management. The solution enabled automated surveys and dynamic filtering, consolidated all responses with version control and audit trails, and scaled to handle the full dataset — delivering faster customer reports, stronger traceability, fewer redundancies, and lower compliance costs.