Source document import tasks
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Summary of Source Document Import Tasks
The Source Document Import Tasks feature within the Regulatory Change Management application enables ServiceNow customers to efficiently process and manage external regulatory alerts. These alerts include citation titles, numbers, and references to legislative or regulatory materials essential for compliance and governance. Each alert contains metadata that ensures accurate classification and traceability when importing documents into the regulatory library.
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When an unassigned source document alert is deemed applicable by a user with the sngrcregchange.manager role, an import task is automatically created. This task follows a defined workflow to facilitate the proper ingestion and management of the source document, helping compliance teams maintain consistency and comprehensive capture of regulatory content.
Key Features
- Automatic Task Creation: Import tasks are generated from applicable regulatory alerts to streamline document ingestion.
- Multiple Tasks per Alert: You can associate several source document import tasks with a single alert, enhancing management and traceability.
- Defined Workflow States: Starting from version 19.0.x, import tasks progress through these states:
- Ready to Import: Task is prepared but work has not started.
- In Progress: Active analysis and definition of regulatory changes.
- Implementation: Execution of changes such as policy or process updates.
- Awaiting Approval: Pending stakeholder or compliance team review.
- Closed: Task completed with all actions finalized.
- Role-Based Task Initiation: Only users with the appropriate management role can mark alerts as applicable to trigger import tasks.
- Compliance Team Involvement: Compliance team members evaluate citations, import documents, and ensure regulatory library consistency.
- Improved Traceability: Grouping import tasks under a single alert record enhances tracking throughout the regulatory change process.
- Upgrade Requirements: To access the new workflow, upgrade the GRC: Common Workspace Elements and GRC: Regulatory Change Management applications.
Practical Benefits
- Streamlined Document Management: Automates and structures the import of regulatory documents, reducing manual effort.
- Enhanced Compliance Tracking: Provides clear visibility and control over regulatory content ingestion and associated change management activities.
- Consistent Regulatory Library: Maintains organized and comprehensive storage of legislative and regulatory materials relevant to your compliance needs.
- Facilitated Collaboration: Enables compliance teams and stakeholders to work within a defined task lifecycle, supporting thorough review and approval processes.
The Regulatory Change Management application processes external alerts that may include citation titles, citation numbers, and references to legislative or regulatory materials relevant to compliance.
Each alert record contains metadata that supports the import of the document into the regulatory library. The metadata includes citation names and other relevant reference information for proper classification and traceability.
Regulatory alerts of the source document type provide citation titles and citation numbers when received. Source documents may reference legislative or regulatory materials relevant to compliance and governance.
Unassigned source document alert records are assessed to determine applicability. If marked as applicable, a source document import task is created automatically. The import task originates from the regulatory alert record and
follows a defined workflow or life-cycle. The source document import life-cycle begins when the alert is marked applicable by a user with the sn_grc_reg_change.manager role. The import document task then appears
in the Ready to import state for stakeholder review.
Compliance team members evaluate the citation associated with the alert and determine the appropriate action. Each import task facilitates ingestion of a specific source document into the regulatory library. Compliance team members are responsible for importing the document and maintaining consistency within the regulatory library.
You can associate multiple source document import tasks with a single regulatory alert. This configuration simplifies management and improves tracking of regulatory content ingestion processes. Each task adds relevant documents to the regulatory library for comprehensive capture and organization. Grouping tasks under one alert enhances traceability throughout the regulatory change management process.
New workflow of a source document import task
- GRC: Common Workspace Elements (
sn_grc_workspace) - GRC: Regulatory Change Management (
sn_grc_reg_change)
- Ready to Import- The task has been identified and prepared for import into the system. No work has started yet.
- In Progress- The task is actively being worked on. This includes analyzing the source document and defining necessary regulatory changes.
- Implementation- Identified changes are being executed. This may involve creating related tasks such as policy updates, control modifications, or process changes.
- Awaiting Approval- All implementation activities are complete, and the task is pending review and approval from the appropriate stakeholders or compliance team.
- Closed- The task has been reviewed, approved, and all required actions are completed. No further work is needed.