Supporting Processes
These are the three supporting processes that enable Charitable Donations, Educational Grants, and Sponsorships.
What are Annual Strategic Plan, Organization Profile Management, Organization Due Diligence
These requests can be raised either by external organizations or by Stryker employees.
What are sponsorships
The three agreement types available include
What is Confirmation Letter, Letter of Agreement, Externally-generated agreements or forms
Payment requests for these activities can integrate with HRP and financial systems to speed up review and ensure details are captured.
What are Charitable Donations, Educational Grants, and Sponsorships?
These business activites require post support close out
What is charitable donations, educational grants, sponsorships
Before a Charitable Donation, Educational Grant, or Sponsorship request can be reviewed and approved, this must already be established.
What is the Annual Strategic Plan
These functions must participate when committee review is required.
Who are the VP or GM of the responsible business unit, Finance, and Compliance?
When deciding which agreement template to use, this factor determines the choice.
What is risk
This team reviews the Payment Request and decides whether to approve, reject, or request additional information before funds can be released.
Who is the HRP team?
This individual,or the Operational Team on their behalf, completes the post-support attestation and uploads supporting documentation.
Who is the External Requestor?
When no committee is required, these two roles are responsible for reviewing and approving the Annual Strategic Plan.
Who are Compliance and the VP or GM of the Responsible Business Unit?
If required for your country, pre-event regulatory notification is system enforced for
When an organization sends their own agreement, this team reviews it, clarifies terms if needed, and provides an approve or reject outcome.
Who is Legal
For this activity, support management captures details when payment is made by credit card and reimbursed through an expense report.
What is Sponsorship
These two activities may require a regulatory notification after the event, managed by the Operational Team.
What are Educational Grants and Sponsorships?
Before funding can be awarded, this supporting process confirms the organization’s background and eligibility.
What is Organization Due Diligence
An organization did not complete their last close out. Who makes the determination to award support for a new request?
What is the Responsible Business Unit
This activity links to system templates managed through Legal for automated agreement generation.
What are Charitable Donations, Educational Grants, Sponsorships.
Before a Charitable Donation request can be closed, this team must confirm that all approved products were provided according to the agreement and upload supporting documentation.
Who is the Operational Team.
What team is responsible for ensuring close out is completed?
What is Operational Team
Even if due diligence returns red flags, funding can still move forward when this team documents how the compliance input was considered.
Who is the operational team.
This business activity does not require committee review
What is Sponsorships
The solution limits agreement templates to those approved for use in this specific location.
What is the local country of the request?
If a payment is rejected but the program has already taken place and Stryker is still obligated to pay, this process must be followed before funds can be released.
What is the HRP payment exception process?
When the program did not take place as expected or Stryker’s support wasn’t used as intended, this should be captured instead of completing the attestation.
What is free text documentation of the circumstances?