Adams Consulting

About Adams Consulting

Adams Consulting, LLC is a niche consultancy that specializes in helping small and medium sized enterprises build and improve their internal import/export compliance programs. What makes Adams Consulting different from others in the field? Our focus, experience and approach to doing business.

We focus on working with companies in Human and Animal Healthcare (Advanced Medical Equipment, Biotechnology, Supplies and Pharmaceuticals) and Consumer/Retail Goods Industries. We have a unique breadth and depth of understanding of the issues and challenges common among many of our clients. Our firsthand experience ranges from working in all areas of internal supply chain and compliance in small, medium and Fortune 50 sized enterprises, as well as managing a university think-tank specializing in global trade security research and outreach.

Adams Consulting’s dedicated network of colleagues provides us with additional expertise that offers our clients access to – and the assurance of - services that, whether on a single issue or an organizational need, can truly support their efforts toward providing Reasonable Care. Specialties include cost accounting and compliance (e.g. the Sarbanes-Oxley/COSO framework), total supply and demand chain security, and public health and medicine. Adams Consulting is proud to offer this distinguished network, whose credentials include that of CPA/CFOs, global DHS/CBP leadership, and a DVM/MPH.

About Beth Adams

Prior to launching Adams Consulting, Beth Adams served as Assistant Director for the University of Georgia’s Center for International Trade and Security, overseeing compliance and management practices for the Center’s Export Control and WMD Security programs. Beth also participated in project work, conducting research and outreach for government and industry partners in the US and China. In 2007, Beth conducted an export control Internal Compliance Program audit for one of China’s leading state-owned corporations. As part of this effort, she had the privilege of becoming the first female U.S. citizen to be granted access to a Chinese defense manufacturing facility.

Before joining the Center, Beth served at Johnson & Johnson for twelve years, holding posts in import/export transportation, regulatory compliance, and distribution. In 2000, Beth co-led the building of a global trade compliance program from the ground up. She also co-chaired a Corporate-Sponsored Contaminated Products Returns Task Force, which effected a risk-based classification and packaging revision to global Dangerous Goods Regulations. Additionally, Beth navigated a 200,000+ square foot distribution operation through a tenuous period of closure, earning her the prestigious Johnson & Johnson Chairman’s Award.

Early in her career, Beth held posts in traffic and documentation, including letter of credit management, with a small steel import/export firm. Beth also worked with a leading animal pharmaceutical manufacturer, managing its international distribution center in Athens, Georgia.

Beth holds a B.A. in political science, magna cum laude, from the University of Georgia. Her writing has earned formal acclaim, including the SPIA 2003 Political Science Research Paper of the Year Award and the 2003 Gordon R. Feighner Award.