export, and store all compliance data, because it is integrated with either the
internal bill of materials in your SAP software or another external product-data
management application. It also enables you to enter data manually, query
supplier data, and check if products meet particular conditions. With CfP, all
data is centralized, so you can reuse it at any time to fill requests for reports
and declarations. You can run future assessment scenarios to determine the
impact of alternative product parts or suppliers on your ability to maintain
compliance, and you can generate, manage, and distribute customer docu-
mentation. The compliance manager cockpit interface supports version man-
agement, change pointers, and customer-specific standard formats, as well.
The scope and depth of businesses and products for regulatory agencies to
monitor make it impractical or impossible to guarantee compliance under all
circumstances. Consequently, they expect your company and your supply
chain partners to maintain reliable due diligence processes. To determine
that reasonable steps to comply have been taken, authorities will request
compliance documentation and inspect the processes that you use to collect
data and evaluate your product, as well as any number of other analyses.
With CfP, you can rest assured that your business will easily pass these tests.
The key functional areas in CfP include
General Compliance Management- Manage activities such as to-do lists, where-used lists, and change
requirements and communicate with all supply-chain partners. - Control lists of materials and substances prohibited by WEEE and
RoHS, among many others. - Maintain product structure required to comply automatically.
- Calculate product data required to comply automatically.
- Retrieve comprehensive product status using traffic light
functionality. - Track work list tasks pertaining to new and updated regulations,
BOM structure modifications, and customer requests.
Compliance Reporting - Generate flexible reports that fulfill all declaration requirements
and define report release strategies. - Analyze compliance issues according to supplier, part number, and
regulatory-list criteria.
Supplier Compliance Management- Use latest communication standards (for example, Nemi, IPC,
RossettaNet, AIAG) to exchange compliance request data with sup-
pliers about all products.