SAP Solution Brief
SAP for Chemicals
Product Safety and Stewardship
Objectives
Solution
Benefits
Quick Facts
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Manage Global Product Safety
and Compliance Throughout
the Product Lifecycle
Objectives
Solution
Benefits
Quick Facts
Grow your business with confidence
Grow your business with confidence
When you produce, sell, and ship products, you must comply with regulatory
and stakeholder requirements for ingredients, registrations, provision of
safety data sheets, labeling, packaging, and safe transportation. The product
safety and stewardship solutions from SAP help fulfill these requirements
and ensure product marketability, reducing compliance costs and protecting
your brand.
How efficient are your current product stewardship processes? How quickly can you develop
compliant products and establish a footprint
in new markets? How fast can you provide
legally compliant safety data sheets and transportation documents for all regions where you
sell your products? How effective are your labeling processes? How do you ensure safe and
compliant packaging and transportation of
dangerous goods? How quickly do you grasp
the impact of changing regulations and market
requirements?
The product safety and stewardship solutions
from SAP support these and related processes.
They help you enforce compliance at each
step of the product lifecycle. You can manage
regulations, leverage up-to-date regulatory
content, collect compliance information from
customers and suppliers, and track registrations and substance volumes. You can automate
product classification and safety data sheet
creation and shipping. And the solutions help
you to label hazardous materials properly and
package and transport them safely.
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Objectives
Solution
Benefits
Quick Facts
Safeguard product marketability
with embedded product compliance
Safeguard product marketability with
embedded product compliance
Efficiently communicate hazards with up-to-date
safety data sheets
Help ensure safe transportation of hazardous
materials
Manage all labeling requirements globally
Compliance with product- and chemical-related
regulations is a must for manufacturing companies. But how can you keep up-to-date with
increasing regulatory requirements and meet
customer, market, and industry demands?
The product safety and stewardship solutions
from SAP help you ensure product and chemical compliance and marketability worldwide,
secure sales, and reduce the cost of compliance.
With the SAP® solutions, you can manage any
compliance requirement and all required product, material, and ingredient information. You
can collect data from suppliers and customers
and publicize exposure scenarios and uses.
The solutions automatically track volumes of
regulated substances and check tracked versus
allowed quantities. They automatically determine the compliance status of products and
raw materials against regulatory and stakeholder requirements. This determination is
based on built-in regulatory content such as
substance lists from dozens of regulations.
Powerful reports and analytics provide visibility into the compliance of individual products,
raw materials, and the whole product portfolio,
and enable everyone in the company to retrieve
compliance information easily.
Secure the rights to market, sell, and ship products and
reduce time to market with automated product and
chemical compliance processes.
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Objectives
Solution
Benefits
Quick Facts
Efficiently communicate hazards
with up-to-date safety data sheets
Safeguard product marketability with embedded
product compliance
Efficiently communicate hazards with
up-to-date safety data sheets
Help ensure safe transportation of hazardous
materials
Manage all labeling requirements globally
Regulations require manufacturers and retailers
that sell and ship products containing hazardous substances to provide information and
procedures for safely handling those products
– usually as safety data sheets. The product
safety and stewardship solutions from SAP help
you to comply with these requirements worldwide by supporting the process of collection and
determining information, and by automating the
creation and shipping of required documents.
These SAP solutions enable you to centrally
manage all required substance and regulatory
information and leverage provided regulatory
content. By using rule sets and templates, you
can automate the product classification and
creation of compliance documents for all regions
and countries. Or let SAP classify your products
and create safety data sheets for you using a
regulatory documentation cloud solution. You
manage all safety data sheets centrally, including those authored in the solution, received
from the cloud solution, or collected from vendors. The software automatically ships safety
data sheets and redistributes updated versions
using integration with logistics processes such
as sales and distribution.
Reduce time to market with automated product
classification and safety data sheet creation and
shipping.
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Objectives
Solution
Benefits
Quick Facts
Help ensure safe transportation
of hazardous materials
Safeguard product marketability with embedded
product compliance
Efficiently communicate hazards with up-to-date
safety data sheets
Help ensure safe transportation of hazardous
materials
Manage all labeling requirements globally
Companies producing or shipping hazardous
materials must accurately package and safely
transport these and comply with numerous
dangerous goods regulations worldwide. The
product safety and stewardship solutions from
SAP help you to manage these requirements
by automating the classification of hazardous
materials, embedding dangerous goods checks
in logistic processes, and providing all required
documents.
With these solutions, you can centrally create
and manage all dangerous goods information.
Dangerous goods content, such as regulatory
information for all UN numbers and rule sets
for dangerous goods classification, helps to
reduce the data collection effort and to automate the dangerous goods classification.
You can create and automatically provide all
required dangerous goods documents and
populate logistics documents with dangerous
goods information. Checks integrated in logistic processes such as outbound delivery, handling unit management, and transportation
management provide adequate packaging and
accurate transportation modes and routing.
This helps to ensure that all shipments comply
with dangerous goods regulations.
Improve safety and compliance and avoid
supply chain disruptions with safe and
compliant packaging and transportation
of dangerous goods.
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Objectives
Solution
Benefits
Quick Facts
Manage all labeling requirements
globally
Safeguard product marketability with embedded
product compliance
Efficiently communicate hazards with up-to-date
safety data sheets
Help ensure safe transportation of hazardous
materials
Manage all labeling requirements globally
Manufacturers must label all their products
accurately, and hazardous materials, in particular. Many regulations exist, and labels can,
for example, include bar codes, information
about safe handling, storage, and transportation in various languages, and pictograms and
logos. The product safety and stewardship
solutions from SAP help you to manage all
labeling requirements worldwide and to create
and print any kind of label.
You create and manage all required data
centrally so that you have to classify products
only once and data on safety data sheets,
transportation documents, and labels is always
in sync. You can readily author all required
label templates. A powerful label selection
engine helps you to choose the required labels.
Scenario-based labeling screens support
manual label printing. The system automatically prints labels through business process
integration. Printing can be triggered from
logistic processes either within the SAP software system or by using Web services from
external systems such as process control
systems. You can use a central labeling workbench for full labeling control. The software logs
all label data changes, user activities, and printing so that corresponding legal requirements
can be met.
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Objectives
Benefits
Solution
Quick Facts
Increase sales while controlling
compliance cost and risk
Increase sales while controlling compliance
cost and risk
With the product safety and stewardship
solutions from SAP, you can:
•• Increase revenue by streamlining product
development with embedded product
compliance
•• Increase sales by accelerating product
introduction with comprehensive decision
support and automated compliance
document creation
•• Fulfill stakeholder expectations and increase
customer satisfaction by efficient determination and management of compliance
requirements and provision of comprehensive
compliance and safety documentation
•• Help ensure on-time delivery by providing
up-to-date compliance documents, compliant
and accurate labeling, and safe transportation
of dangerous goods, avoiding holdup by
authorities or carriers
•• Increase visibility into compliance with
powerful analytics, enabling quick responses
to compliance inquiries
•• Protect the brand by mitigating risks with
up-to-date information and documents and
helping ensure compliance and safety with
controls throughout the product lifecycle
•• Reduce compliance costs by streamlining
compliance processes and document
creation with analytics, automation, and
regular content updates
Design and deliver safe and compliant products
while meeting global regulatory and customer
requirements.
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Objectives
Solution
Benefits
Summary
The product safety and stewardship solutions
from SAP support product compliance and
safety throughout the product lifecycle and
streamline corresponding processes. They
automate product classification, safety data
sheet creation, and shipping and help ensure
compliant labeling, packaging, and transportation of hazardous materials.
Objectives
•• Grow your business with confidence and
reduce marketability risks by ensuring product
compliance and keeping up-to-date with
changing regulatory requirements worldwide
•• Avoid delivery disruptions by providing
accurate safety data sheets and labels and
safe packaging and transportation
of dangerous goods
•• Gain efficiency and reduce cost of compliance
Quick Facts
Solution
•• End-to-end support for product safety
and compliance throughout the product
lifecycle
•• Up-to-date regulatory content and automated
compliance document creation
•• Automated compliance determination and
integrated compliance checks
Benefits
•• Enable growth and protect your brand with
embedded product compliance
•• Mitigate risks by providing up-to-date
compliance documents, compliant and
accurate labeling, and safe transportation
of dangerous goods
•• Reduce compliance costs by streamlining
and automating compliance processes and
document creation
Learn more
Call your SAP representative today or visit us
online to learn more about product safety and
stewardship.
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