Manage Global Product Compliance Throughout the Product Lifecycle

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1 SAP Brief PUBLIC SAP for Chemicals SAP S/4HANA for product compliance Manage Global Product Compliance Throughout the Product Lifecycle

2 SAP Brief 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. You need a solution that helps fulfill these requirements while also ensuring product marketability, reducing compliance costs and protecting your brand. Grow your business with confidence How efficient is your current product stewardship? 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 in which you sell your products? How effective are your labeling processes? How do you ensure safe, compliant packaging and transportation of dangerous goods? How quickly do you grasp the impact of changing regulations and market requirements? For the answers, talk to SAP. We can help you enforce compliance at each step of the product lifecycle, manage regulations, leverage up-to-date regulatory content, collect compliance information from customers and suppliers, and track registrations and substance volumes. We ll help automate product classification, safety data sheet creation, and shipping. We can also help label hazardous materials, package, and transport them safely. It s time to talk to SAP about SAP S/4HANA for product compliance. 2 / 7

3 SAP Brief Safeguard product marketability and embed product compliance 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? SAP S/4HANA for product compliance helps you ensure product compliance and marketability worldwide, secure sales, and reduce the cost of compliance. With this solution, you can manage any compliance requirement and all required product, material, and ingredient information. It automatically tracks and checks volumes of regulated substances and determines the compliance status of products and raw materials against regulatory and stakeholder requirements 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. Native process integration ensures that only compliant products are developed, purchased, produced, sold, and shipped. Secure the rights to market with automated product and chemical compliance processes. Safeguard product marketability and embed product compliance Efficiently communicate safety data sheet and label hazards Transport hazardous materials safely 3 / 7

4 SAP Brief Efficiently communicate safety data sheet and label hazards Regulations require companies that sell and ship products containing hazardous substances to provide information for safely handling usually as safety data sheets and labels. SAP S/4HANA for product compliance helps you to comply with these requirements by supporting the process of collection and determining information, and automating the creation and shipping of those documents. This solution enables you to centrally manage all 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. All information required for safety data sheets and labels is centrally created and stored to ensure that data on all documents and labels is always in sync. The solution 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 compliance document creation and shipping. Safeguard product marketability and embed product compliance Efficiently communicate safety data sheet and label hazards Transport hazardous materials safely 4 / 7

5 SAP Brief Transport hazardous materials safely Companies producing or shipping hazardous materials must accurately package and safely transport these and comply with numerous dangerous goods regulations worldwide. SAP S/4HANA for product compliance will help by automating the classification of hazardous materials, embedding dangerous goods checks in logistic processes, and providing all required documents. With this solution, 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. Safeguard product marketability and embed product compliance Efficiently communicate safety data sheet and label hazards Transport hazardous materials safely 5 / 7

6 SAP Brief Increase sales while controlling compliance cost and risk The benefits of SAP S/4HANA for product compliance to your organization are: Increased revenue through streamlined product development with embedded compliance Faster time to market through accelerated product introduction with comprehensive decision support and automated compliance document creation Fulfilled stakeholder expectations and increased customer satisfaction by efficient determination and management of compliance requirements and provision of comprehensive compliance and safety documentation On-time delivery by providing up-to-date and accurate compliance documents and safe transportation of dangerous goods, avoiding delays by authorities or carriers Increased visibility into compliance with powerful analytics, enabling quick responses to compliance inquiries Protection of the brand by mitigating risks with up-to-date information and documents and helping ensure compliance and safety with controls throughout the product lifecycle Reduced compliance costs through streamlined processes and documentation with analytics, automation, and regular content updates Increase sales while controlling compliance cost and risk 6 / 7

7 SAP Brief Summary SAP S/4HANA for product compliance supports product compliance throughout the product lifecycle and streamlines corresponding processes. It automates product classification, safety data sheet creation, and shipping and helps ensure compliant labeling, packaging, and transportation of hazardous materials. Provides end-to-end support for product safety and compliance throughout the product lifecycle Ensures up-to-date regulatory content and automated compliance document creation Allows automated compliance determination and integrated compliance checks To grow your business with confidence and reduce marketability risks by ensuring product compliance and keeping up-to-date with changing regulatory requirements worldwide To avoid delivery disruptions by providing accurate safety data sheets and labels and safe packaging and transportation of dangerous goods To improve efficiency and reduce cost of compliance Enables growth and protects your brand with embedded product compliance Mitigates risks by providing up-to-date compliance documents, compliant and accurate labeling, and safe transportation of dangerous goods Reduces compliance costs by streamlining and automating compliance processes and document creation Learn more To find out more, call your SAP today or visit us online at product-compliance.html 7 / 7

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