data about the precise makeup of your products. To do so requires software
solutions that run enterprise-wide even as they streamline your processes.
In short, you’ve got to automatically monitor the compliance status of your
products, facilitate communication with suppliers and customers, and enable
users to generate and manage reports quickly and efficiently. The SAP solu-
tion for environmental product compliance can help to meet all of these chal-
lenges. Developed on the SAP NetWeaver platform, the solution is part of the
mySAP Product Lifecycle Management application, which seamlessly inte-
grates with SAP Product Safety, SAP Materials Management, and SAP Sales
and Distribution, among others. Specifically, it includes the SAP Environment,
Health & Safety application (which contains SAP Hazardous Substance
Management and SAP Dangerous Goods Management) and the TechniData
Compliance for Products application.
Compliance for Products by TechniData (CfP) ..............................
Until now, the dominant means of gathering data across multiple disconnected
sources has been the spreadsheet, which, in addition to being error-prone
and expensive to maintain, generally impedes efficient analysis. The other
shortcoming of spreadsheets is that you can’t integrate them into your core
processes to streamline compliance tasks. If you have been trying to meet
compliance regulations using spreadsheets in conjunction with other stand-
alone solutions, you’ve probably struggled, besieged from beginning to end
by an overwhelming mass of disjunctive documents and data.
Technidata’s CfP can integrate into your ERP ecosystem without any additional
interfaces, providing you with a business solution that is both transparent
and adaptive on a single standardized, platform. Armed as such, your com-
pany can ensure the successful attention to environmental requirements for
product development, sourcing, procurement, and manufacturing — today
and tomorrow.
The solution retrieves compliance data from widely dispersed sources through-
out the enterprise and automatically determines which information is missing.
After data is received, not only does CfP store it in structured form, but
also it renders it to meet a diverse spectrum of data formats, including the
International Material Data System (IMDS), Automotive Industry Action
Group (AIAG), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), IPC
1752, or Microsoft Excel. Consequently, all pertinent compliance data is avail-
able on demand to participants anywhere along the value chain.
The CfP solution offers a number of key functional areas for compliance man-
agement, all of which are accessible from the compliance manager cockpit,
which serves as the central user interface. From the cockpit, you can import,
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