- Confirm the product is regulated before the goods are shipped, not after
- Track Product Certificate validity and start renewal before it bites
- Notify changes to registered products, since an unnotified change voids registration
- Reconcile certificate details against the Form M before departure
- Record the root cause of every failed assessment and what changed upstream
SONCAP
Nigeria's pre-shipment conformity programme. A SONCAP Certificate is required for clearance, and the details have to match the Form M, which is where most consignments actually come unstuck.
- 1Scope and applicability2
- 2Certification routes1
- 3Product Certificate3
- 4Consignment assessment4
- 5Certification and clearance3
SONCAP, in practice.
Standards Organisation of Nigeria conformity assessment programme.
Exporters shipping regulated products into Nigeria, and importers holding the Form M against which the certificate has to reconcile.
The clause numbers and titles above are the standard's own public structure. The standard itself is copyright of its issuing body and you buy it from them. What we add is the interpretation underneath, and that lives in your workspace.
Every month, on a schedule you can check.
This is the running work for this standard specifically. The general shape is the same across all of them.
- Regulated product check dated before shipment
- Product Certificate file with supporting accredited test reports
- Inspection reports and discrepancy resolutions
- SONCAP Certificate register linked to consignments and Form M
- Certificate to Form M reconciliation records
Each one is filed against the requirement it satisfies as the work happens, so the pack for the next visit already exists.
Standards that share the structure.
ISO 9001:2015
The quality management standard most certified organisations start with, and the one most other management system standards borrow their structure from.
ISO 22301:2019
The continuity standard, built around one question: when the thing you deliver stops, how quickly does it come back, and who decided that was fast enough.
SOC 2 (TSC 2017, rev. 2022)
Not a certification but an attestation. An independent auditor reports on whether your controls were designed properly, and for Type II, whether they operated over a period.
Name a clause in SONCAP and we will open it.
The requirement, the control attached to it, the evidence that satisfies it, and the audit checklist it generates. Nothing prepared in advance, because there is nothing to prepare.
