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. 

If you are expe­ri­enc­ing chal­lenges and would like to lead your own case study, fill out the sur­vey here. 

Think Tank Insights:

•  Found that most peo­ple on the call where using 3^rd 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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