Environmental Vendor Managed Inventory

Environmental Vendor Managed Inventory

This Business Scenario Map shows you how a customer uses the Internet to access product safety documentation. Documents are automatically made available prior to purchase for collection at the appropriate time and can be collected by the customer by accessing the vendor's system. The map illustrates the benefits of collaboration. Quicker, easier access to the product safety documents leads to a streamlined and regulation-compliant process.The key benefit is the collaboration between customer and supplier and the savings in time and therefore money due to faster and easier procedures.
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Value Potentials Business Benefits
Up to 30% reduced time* Customer self-service access to supplier product safety information via Internet
Up to 15% reduced costs* Reduced cost of obtaining EH&S regulatory compliance data
Up to 30% reduced time* Shorter cycle time for and improved quality data for EH&S risk assessent prior to chemical purchase
Up to 10% improved accuracy* EH&S regulatory tasks integrated into supply chain to ensure compliance
Eliminate risks from introduction of unauthorized materials
Up to 30% reduced costs Reduced costs to receive, maintain, and distribute EH&S information for employee right-to-know
Buy-Side
Environmental Expert
Sell-Side
Review and approve product safety
Create purchase order
Receive Product Safety Documents
Ensure EH&S regulatory compliance
Refer to Product Safety Information Catalog
Refer to Global EH&S Reference Data Library
Transport hazardous material and check documents
Access to product safety/MSDS information
Search for data in Product Safety Document Mngt
Inquire about product safety
Deliver product safety document
Regulation-Compliant Shipping Documents
Ensure EH&S Regulatory Compliance
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* BTI Consulting - Report: E-Strategies for Environmental Management: Opportunities for Performance 2001
The value potentials shown in this table have been reported by selected SAP customers or independent third parties as referenced herein. However, there is no guarantee that such value potentials can be realized in any particular customer-specific business processes, and SAP does not make any representations and disclaims any liability as to the appropriateness of the referenced value potentials for any specific customer situation.
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Business Benefits Value Potentials
Reduced time and costs of authoring and management of product safety documents (e.g. MSDS, labels) Up to 40% reduced time
Accurate product safety information repository available to business partners
Faster reponse to customer inquiries by Web self-service Up to 20% faster response
Automated, flexible delivery of approriate product safety information Up to 30% reduced time
Integrate EH&S regulatory tasks into supply chain to ensure compliance Up to 10% improved accuracy
Avoid costs of product refusals, transportation incidents, and other EH&S impacts Up to 30% reduced costs
 

Environmental Vendor Managed Inventory

The customer would like Internet access to the vendors product safety documentation. The vendor sets this up on his homepage via a Web interface or a marketplace and assigns access authorization to individual contact persons.

 

The vendor ensures the appropriate layout and regulation-compliant availability of product safety documentation over MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheet) according to the regional requirements of the buy-side.

 

The required documents are automatically made available for collection at the appropriate time. The customer can log onto the vendor's marketplace and retrieve a list of reports available to him. The customer can then have the certificate created and receive a copy in PDF format, for example, which he can display, print, or download. The retrieval process is logged in the vendor's system.

 

With Collaborative Vendor-Managed Inventory owners can:

  1. Attach product safety related documents for their products to the bill of material (BOM)
  2. Publish documents to a list of internal or external participants
  3. Define communication settings (collaboration or one-on-one communication) and access rights
  4. Monitor and compare responses from different partners and check due dates for renewal
  5. Reconcile document changes in the operative process

Participants of a Collaborative Vendor-Managed Inventory session can:

  1. Check the available documentation and verify what has to be done to be regulation-compliant
  2. Navigate through the offered documents and information
  3. View and download documents for inhouse usage and distribution

 

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