Think Tanks connect you with peers navigating the same challenges and opportunities as you. ASUG will facilitate an interactive peer-to-peer exchange where solutions are shared for topics specific to your role and interest.

CLP Article 45 for Poison Centre Notifications is the most talked about product compliance regulation since REACH. Join this session to discuss regulatory requirements, with registrations starting in 2021, real-life examples from various companies, and SAP safety data sheet (SDS) management software and how it can be used for compliance.  

The format for Tuesday, Nov. 17 at 12 p.m. CT will include:   

  • Brief welcome and kickoff from ASUG  

  • Rapid case study led by ASUG members Zack Mikan and Jayne Clifton from Huntsman  

  • The discussion will focus on: 

  • Regulatory requirements, with registrations starting in 2021         

  • Real-life examples from various companies          

  • SAP’s SDS management software and how it can be used for compliance 

Gain visibility into the challenges and successes other SAP customers are experiencing, and acquire new ideas for real-world solutions. 

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Think Tank Insights:

  •  Found that most people on the call where using 3rd party software and not the free tools 
    • Why is regulation necessary? 
      • Over 600,000 calls to Poison center in EU 
      • 1,700 calls per day 
      • Half of those involve children 
      • We want to give the poison centers the necessary information to help prevent them  
  • Why process needed to change? 
    • Different formats 
    • Different ways to submit information 
    • The new regulations standardized everything 
      • Members states appoint a body to receive information 
      • Establish a common format  
    • What needs to be notified 
  • Huntsman case study  
    • Project GAIA – Implementation story  
      • Started in 2015 was a two-year project 
      • Implemented in fast environment 
      • Went to SAP Sapphire and asked how they implemented product compliance tool 
        • Advice was to try to implement their existing standard compliance tool  
  • Why Opesus EHS Product Notification tool of PCN  
    • Support for Poison Centre Notification 
      • SAP did not have the intention to build a tool to support this  
      • Huntsman also did not have intention to develop a tool 
    • Opesus EHS Product Notification 
      • Plug-in for SAP EHS Substance Workbench 
      • Close to SAP Standard 
      • Good fit out of the box 
  • What are the benefits? 
    • Better integration and product compliance sits on its own server 
    • Can link up to material codes and drives volume tracking 
    • No longer doing it manually  
    • Can manage specific customers that register products as well in China 
    • Now have a central data repository globally   
  • Product Compliance – that is a S/4HANA Product, correct? 
    • It is a rebranding with SAP more clearly identify the two branches of operational EHS and product compliant solutions  
    • Classic solution – equivalent to what people have in ECC right now; the NEW solution is currently under development in terms of monitoring dangerous good 
    • The classic solution is the compatibility pact 

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