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Foreword Welcome to Chemical Watch’s third Chemicals Management Software Guide.

In publishing the guide we examined how software is being used to improve chemical management programmes and gathered business-critical information with our CW survey.

Chemical Watch’s research (pages 4–8) looks at how chemical businesses and downstream users are managing chemicals through technology. There are also five articles that examine cutting-edge initiatives such as the IBM blockchain pilot project, emerging software trends and the best ways to merge or buy new software systems.

Blockchain is a distributed and decentralised digital record keeping system that allows records to be created and maintained, and allows information to be fast-tracked. It was created a decade ago to manage transactions through cryptocurrency Bitcoin, but has potential for sharing or retrieving other forms of data.

As our second article, written by Elaine Burridge (pages 14–15) shows, multinationals are eagerly exploring blockchain’s potential.

IBM and Ford have teamed up with South Korean electric vehicle battery producer LG Chem and Chinese cobalt mining and refining company Huayou Cobalt in a pilot project that started in January with the Linux Foundation’s Hyperledger Fabric blockchain technology. The project tracks cobalt produced at Huayou’s DRC mine, to LG Chem’s cathode and battery plant in South Korea into a Ford facility in the US. Throughout the blockchain, the companies are creating a secure, transparent audit trail linked to immutable records with details of the production characteristics of the cobalt at each stage of the supply chain.

Carmaker Volkswagen joined the pilot in April, primarily to achieve more transparency around its responsible sourcing and other industry leaders are watching closely.

Companies aren’t just weighing opportunities with new technology, they are using software to mitigate liabilities.

Frank Zaworski (pages 16–18) spoke to Clariant, the Swiss-based speciality chemicals giant, about the risks associated with the use of restricted substances at every stage in the development process – from European chemicals Regulation REACH and the US’s TSCA to legal liabilities and costly redesigns.

Clariant uses software to help avoid and mitigate business risks and environmental impacts by providing computational analysis, reporting, decision-making tools and more. The ‘holistic’ risk management process helps Clairant monitor its value chain and communicate with several thousand suppliers. The company is one of many who now use software solutions across their businesses, from product discovery to production processes and to long-term maintenance and reliability of manufacturing assets.

A growing business doesn’t stand still and neither can its software. But what happens when companies merge? Rosa Richards (pages 10–12) explores the best way to combine software systems for companies who are either acquiring another or upgrading their chemical management software.

In many cases companies have a blend of software systems – some developed inhouse, some no longer supported, others highly customised or duplicated solutions.

Robinson Brothers, a UK-based manufacturer of speciality and fine chemicals which acquired Endeavour Speciality Chemicals in 2008, explains how it undertook an audit of systems and infrastructure and created a detailed plan in a document tracking system listing all aspects of the systems’ requirements from every department.

Vanessa Zainzinger (pages 19–21) examines how health and safety professionals are integrating chemicals

management software into their day-today work life.

The days of keeping a chemical inventory manually with paper, pen and a couple of spreadsheets are long gone. Companies are searching for quicker and more efficient ways to track their chemical footprint and compliance, and employees are demanding immediate access to critical chemical hazard information. As a result, more EHS professionals are relying on software to keep on top of chemicals management. A key market report predicts companies will spend up to $1.9bn for firm-wide EHS software by 2024.

And finally, Keri Allan looks at how product stewardship and chemical management software are helping companies shift to more sustainable practices and enable the circular economy to grow (pages 22–24).

Many businesses are going beyond managing regulatory compliance to set stewardship initiatives and sustainability goals. While regulations are still important, they’re no longer the whole picture.

Businesses are emphasising improved sustainability through chemical management as a positive value in itself.

And, as chemical management and control is intertwined with product stewardship, companies need to know what is in their product and which substances are subject to regulations for both product compliance and sustainability.

We hope you enjoy reading the articles and find the listings useful.

Caroline Byrne Editor – Chemicals Management Software Guide

Chemical Watch would like to thank Sphera for sponsoring the third edition of the guide. You can view their profile on page 46.

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Contents Introduction..........................................................................................................04

epos hazardous substances manager – epos Software & Service AG.. 35

Software mergers: How to minimise pain and risk......................................10

ExESS – Lisam Systems...................................................................................36

Blockchain aids responsible sourcing.............................................................14

Gensuite SDS Systems – Gensuite.................................................................37

Mitigating business risk and environmental impact through better

Hazex – Selerant................................................................................................38

product safety......................................................................................................16 EHS reliance on software expected to boost sales to almost $2bn by 2024..................................................................................................................19 Software supports move towards a circular economy business model.....................................................................................................................22 Glossary................................................................................................................25

Intelligent Compliance Solutions for Chemical and Workplace Safety – Verisk 3E...............................................................................................................39 Intelligent Compliance Solutions for Product Safety & Stewardship – Verisk 3E...............................................................................................................40 iPoint Compliance and Approval App – iPoint-systems............................41 MSDSonline SDS/Chemical Management solution – Velocity EHS........42 PubliChem – Lisam Systems...........................................................................43

PROFILES

SAP EHS consulting and support services – eSpheres.............................44

ALMEGO® – CHYMEIA ApS.............................................................................27

Software for Chemical Hazard Transparency, Management, and

CDX Compliance Data eXchange – DXC Technology.................................28

Compliance – Toxnot.........................................................................................45

CHEMDOX® – CHEMDOX®.............................................................................29

Sphera Product Stewardship Solutions – Sphera.......................................46

Chemeter – SIAM...............................................................................................30

Targeted Risk Assessment Tool (TRA) – ECETOC.......................................47

ChemGes – DR-Software.................................................................................31

Veeva Chemical Solutions – Veeva Systems Inc........................................48

Devex Baseline for Chemical Industries – Selerant....................................32

Yordas Hive – Yordas.........................................................................................49

Ecobio Manager – Ecobio.................................................................................33 Element 1 – H2 Compliance............................................................................34

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Introduction Companies across all parts of the chemical supply chain are increasingly adopting digital systems to help them keep pace with rising regulatory and customer requirements around the world How are companies deploying software in their chemical management? Certainly, there is a growing need for IT tools that enable companies to keep pace not only with rapidly changing regulations, but also to connect with increasingly complex supply chains and provide information to other stakeholders.

Added to that is a more concentrated focus among chemical companies on product stewardship and sustainability, particularly for product design, whether that is replacing hazardous chemicals with safer substances or making plastics fully recyclable.

at Sphera, said: “The survey shows an increased need for chemical data across organisations. This can be seen with the increase in types of users requiring chemical data outside of R&D, and the increased importance of system integration capabilities. This is all the more reason for chemical data users to work cross-functionally to increase the utility of any chemical software and content decision.”

The majority of survey participants are from enterprise- (more than 5,000 employees) and large-sized organisations (over 250 employees), accounting for 57% of responses. While companies active in the chemicals, oil and energy space make up 31% of the respondents, by far the largest number of replies are from downstream users.

[Figure 1] Use of software systems (including third party) to

support chemicals management programmes in the past 3 years, by company size and type

The era of digitalisation is here and today’s IT systems are faster to implement, very flexible and, arguably, more affordable than in the past. As yet, the single transformational, do-itall software system doesn’t exist so companies must choose the right tool for the job, a task that in itself is not always easy or straight forward.

All sizes

Enterprise (over 5,000 employees)

Large (over 250 employees)

Medium (50-250 employees)

Small (less than 50 employees) All organisations 57% 74% 60% 64% 36% Downstream users

However, there is a definite trend in companies turning to a single platform with multi-functionality as they embrace digitalisation and cloud-based software.

50% 63% 49% 67% 22%

Integration too is becoming more important. Systems need to talk to one another, not just across a company’s individual departments but also along the chain with suppliers and customers, which adds another layer of complexity.

Chemical companies 77% 92% 88% 60% 53% Others, including service providers

In this year’s survey, Chemical Watch asks 300 companies active in and around the chemical industry about their use of software, which key functions they use IT tools for, and the main factors behind their investments.

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Commenting on the results, Matt Adams, responsible for product stewardship

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The rest comprises: • service providers, including legal services (14%); • government and agencies (3%); and • others (10%).

The increased push from customers and regulators for more product information is being felt all the way down the supply chain, says Mr Adams. “Companies in high-tech, consumer products, paints and coatings and chemical industries are turning to process improvement and software solutions as they aim to meet customer information demands while protecting their trade secrets.”

More than half of respondents (57%) have used a software system (including third party) to support their chemicals management programme in the past three years [Figure 1]. Unsurprisingly, the biggest software user (74%) is enterprise-sized companies, with the breadth of the organisation a major factor behind their need for IT systems to manage and monitor their global compliance needs.

This number jumps to 92% for chemical enterprises, with others (including service providers) at 75%. It is worth noting that the percentage of all chemical companies adopting software solutions has grown from 72% in 2018 to 77% in 2019.

visibility and efficiency in order to mitigate risk and capitalise on market opportunities. “Leading companies are already using technology to do this with chemical data and early adopters are seeing a great return on investment.

We’re seeing a lot of companies that have seen some success with disconnected or lightweight systems and are now looking to improve by standardising on better technology across the organisation.”

Figure 2 shows the number of

software programmes respondents say they currently use for managing their compliance. For the second year running, we see that chemical companies have the most diverse number of systems, with 19% using more than four. Certainly, the number of downstream users applying more than four systems has increased from 10% last year to 13% this year, illustrating perhaps that more firms are expanding the number of systems they use.

More commonly, companies use two, with the exception of the ‘others’

The number of companies across all sectors that are still running systems in isolation remains high. Interestingly, as Figure 3 shows, 51% of downstream users have some or all of their software tools integrated, as do 52% of ‘others’.

Software integration has been a challenge for a long time, notes Mr Adams, commenting that often, different groups operate in silos, and gaining value from an integration requires IT to work with multiple business groups to make it successful.

The most popular route to integrating software is to do it in-house, cited by 54% of all companies. Those who ‘do not integrate’ are down from 27% in last year’s survey to 17% this year - perhaps underlining the fact that companies are starting to realise the benefits of integration. Consulting services are used by 11% of all respondents, with the biggest demand from chemical companies.

[Figure 2] Number of software programmes used by respondents as

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All organisations 30%

When looking at all small companies (less than 50 employees), only 36% have invested in the past three years, with this figure dropping to 22% among downstream users.

Nearly half (47%) of all organisations are considering installing software in the coming 12 months, giving a strong indication of investment plans among all segments. This figure rises to 51% for chemical companies and is slightly less at 46% for downstream users and 44% for others.

category, which is most likely to run just a single system.

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[Figure 3] Integration of software tools Yes

Some

towards adopting software solutions that can complement existing systems.

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Chemical companies, by the very nature

All organisations 24%

28%

of their business, depend more heavily

47%

on chemical data than other industries.

Consequently, says Mr Adams, chemical

Downstream users 29%

companies are leading with chemical 22%

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data management and software integration since there is so much upside

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in having streamlined data flows when it 33%

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rise exponentially. Indeed, 66% of all organisations say they have data gaps, highlighting a need both for external

With regard to different IT systems, regulatory compliance is the highest ranking need among all categories.

For both chemical companies and downstream users, hazard communication comes next as ‘very important’. Product stewardship also rates highly both at chemical companies (44%) and at downstream users (43%).

According to India-based consultancy Data Bridge Market Research, the global product stewardship market is predicted to double in value from an estimated $781m in 2018 to around $1.46bn by 2026, expanding at a compound annual growth rate of 8.11% for the period 2019-2026. Key drivers for this growth are increasingly stringent government rules for environmental protection and sustainable development across the globe, along with increasing initiatives and awareness within organisations to safeguard the environment and the impact from their products.

In Figure 4, respondents indicate how they view different sub-categories in terms of importance in their chemicals software.

For regulatory compliance systems, data management (regulatory lists, substance data) remains the dominant function, followed by regulatory management

and product compliance – the latter two swapping places this year.

services and additional IT support.

In other fields, labelling, safety data sheet (SDS) authoring and management score highly again this year. Software for managing product lifecycles, incidents and corporate sustainability (CSR) reporting remain ‘very important’ or ‘important’.

The top four remain unchanged from

The single biggest factor behind investment in software solutions is saving time, rated by 52% as ‘very important’ and 38% as ‘important’ of all companies surveyed [Figure 5]. Cost comes next at 49% and 43% respectively, then the ability to customise at 35% and 40%, and ease of integration with existing health, safety and environment (EHS) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems at 36% each. Once again CSR is bottom of the list; however 56% still rate it as ‘very important’ or ‘important’ with just 9% regarding it as of no importance.

board members continue to take little

And the functions using this data? last year’s poll, namely R&D, HSE, manufacturing/quality assessment and toxicology. Product design received a higher number of votes this year as companies see this as an effective area where they can substitute hazardous substances. Unchanged is the fact that notice of their company’s data, with advocacy and marketing functions also fairly rare users.

Companies across all facets of the chemical industry continue to face a rising number of government regulations together with customers’ demands to understand the safety and health impact of the products they buy. Keeping on top of this highly complex and evershifting landscape requires quicker and ever more efficient ways of managing compliance. The right software can help

While the major drivers of time saving and cost have remained fairly stable, it is noteworthy that ease of integration with existing EHS/ERP systems has increased 6% this year, so too has integration with third-party data, fitting with the trend

companies keep on top of their chemicals management and Chemical Watch hopes the information in this guide can steer you in the right direction.

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[Figure 4] Importance of software functions to your current chemicals management programme?

Very important

Data management (regulatory lists, substance data)

61%

Regulatory management

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Product compliance

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Labelling

Environmental safety

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Worker safety Risk assessment

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Hazard assessment

Product stewardship

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Reporting

Supply chain management

Hazard communication

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Chemical inventory management

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Compliance assurance Regulatory compliance

Useful but not essential

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[Figure 5] Key factors driving investment Very important

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Time saving

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Software mergers: How to minimise pain and risk Companies face daunting choices when they change or upgrade software – should they merge existing datasets or start from scratch? What are the factors that influence the choice of an upgrade and affect the costs of setting up?

Whether a company has acquired another or upgraded its chemical management system, the merger of software is often difficult.

Should a business integrate existing datasets or undertake a bottom-up rebuild?

In many cases there is a ‘mish mash’ of software systems – some developed in-house, some no longer supported, others highly customised or duplicated solutions – with a heavy reliance on email, Excel and in-house knowledge. At the same time, businesses are embracing digitalisation and combining a software upgrade while connecting to the cloud.

During the transition, some firms reduce the number of software vendors they use in order to cope, says Aldric Delahaie, senior product manager at French software firm Enablon.The trend indicates that some companies are decommissioning software to replace it with a single platform with multifunctional coverage.

Which to ditch?

When deciding which system to keep, which to integrate and which to ditch, companies often apply a cost-benefit risk approach, says Paul Gilfrin, enterprise account manager at Californiaheadquartered Veeva Systems.

It is common to focus on areas causing the most ‘pain’ or those with an immediate compliance risk. As a result, Enablon, for example, offers customers an internal Total Economic Impact (TEI) study.

Robinson Brothers, a UK-based manufacturer of speciality and fine chemicals, recommends an audit of systems and infrastructure. The manufacturer, which employs 250 staff

A merger or upgrade of software systems can offer a rare opportunity to check data quality

in West Bromwich, acquired Endeavour Speciality Chemicals in 2008 and needed to merge systems.

Managing director Adrian Hanrahan says they created a detailed plan in a Document Tracking System (DTS) listing all aspects of the systems’ requirements from every department. Robinson Brothers also considered the functionality the company would need – both digital and manual, planning for the long-term support of systems to avoid them becoming redundant. They then built a standard database platform that all existing systems could use to communicate.

Timeline Enablon’s Aldric Delahaie says it is important to align the timeline of decommissioning with implementation of new software. Different uses of the solution can be implemented in phases, as can the ‘go live’ dates for business units. Historical data, and integration with third-party software or content can also be updated.

In a fairly simple undertaking, where a company is merging two datasets

from two software systems, they may unwittingly incorporate existing imperfections. A merger or upgrade can offer a rare opportunity to check data quality.

“You should consider this an opportunity to undertake a full audit of the quality of your data and not a chore,” says Mark Pemberton, an industrial regulatory toxicologist and co-owner of Global MSDS which provides SDS, labelling and intelligence-based, multilingual software to industries.

“People should remember that the content of the datasheet is the first line of defence and therefore fundamental for product liability purposes – if you put rubbish in, you’ll get rubbish out,” Dr Pemberton says.

Compliance Compliance needs must still be met during the transition. In a merger, for example, SDSs are immediately required, so for practical reasons existing datasheets and labels are assumed to be fit for purpose and rebranded with the acquiring company’s information.

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Dr Pemberton says it is difficult to map data across from a donor to a recipient database, not least because a substance descriptor identifier for an ingredient may not be sufficient to match it to the same substance in the recipient database.

A chemical trade name, for example, may not be the name used in REACH or under CLP for SDSs. Cas numbers are not always unique – some substances have more than one Cas number, some have none.

“There is a balance to be struck between bulk transfer of large datasets (for SDSs) automatically and the need to ensure correct insertion of data,” says Dr Pemberton. “Sometimes it is better to transfer data manually in a spreadsheet to allow for verification and an audit during the process.”

Companies may want to consider whether to bulk merge data automatically or undertake some manual verification during the transfer depending on the confidence they have in the data.

“Adopting a ‘content agnostic’ approach allows the customer to separate functionality from content and choose the best in class without having to compromise,” says Mr Delahaie.

REACH considerations Data does not stand still.

“The world of classification of chemicals changes so rapidly and REACH generates so much data that data will soon be out of date,” says Dr Pemberton. “As a key baseline requirement, a database for classification of substances needs to be live, threading new classification data through as it is generated”.

So, it may be worth considering how classification data, occupational exposure limits and other regulatory information will be updated. Does the software have built-in algorithms to populate databases or does the company need to cover this manually? Some companies may choose to undertake their own classification and

use the software as a cross check rather than relying on the software.

GHS Despite the UN Globally Harmonized System (GHS) of classifying and labelling chemicals, different countries have different adaptations of GHS. As a result there is a need for a software system with high level intelligence built in. Simple systems may fail; if formats and context are incorrect then an SDS may be rejected by poison centres as

Some software solutions offer a configurable, central digital platform (for example, a product library) which is accessible to all and supports multiple devices and interfaces. They can also collect more data and push valuable insights to the workforce in real-time.

“Simple to use smart cards improve user adoption and minimise the need for training,” says Mr Delahaie.

Flexibility is key Flexibility is needed to create formats for documents, for example the ability

It is important to define your critical processes to address and implement [...] Then try to understand the needs of users and match them with the company processes” being insufficient or inadequate. The system needs to be sophisticated and flexible enough to cope with different toxicological endpoints.

Cost considerations The cost of implementation can be significant. Will the migration be done internally or outsourced? Some software systems, like HazMix for example, have artificial intelligence built in so as much as 95% of the migration may be covered.

Some software providers are better than others at customer service. If they have experience compiling an SDS for example, companies may be able to send them information and receive back the first drafts of an SDS. It is important to manage change from the start, says Mr Delahaie. “You can get staff on board early by engaging with them during the initial process of definition of operational use cases, functional gaps and identification of expected improvements.”

Software can be adapted and training provided to users from onsite workers including contractors, chemists and industrial hygienists to global environment health and safety managers.

to create a legally compliant, single document, 16 section SDS combined with exposure scenario summaries for a hazardous substance. Customers also need confidence in technical translations; sometimes the correct dialect is needed, for example Canadian French, or South American Spanish. Not all software solutions can provide accurate technical translations.

Checklist In summary, when merging systems or considering a software upgrade, companies should consider the following (non exhaustive) list: • compatibility with existing software for data transfer; • user-friendly, intuitive software; • flexibility in the software; • efficiency of response times; • functional requirements (for example, reliably correct technical translations, the ability to distribute an SDS, the speed of producing product submissions, and process control); • whether data will be updated automatically or manually; • connection to the cloud; and • security measures.

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Blockchain aids responsible sourcing IBM and a cross-sector of companies pursue blockchain project to track cobalt Blockchain technology is in the early stages of deployment with IBM, Ford and other companies still working out how the digital record system can enable secure tracking and tracing of products throughout complex supply chains, resulting in improved transparency and efficiencies in supplier management.

One of many projects underway relates to cobalt, which is used in lithium-ion batteries that power laptops, mobile devices and electric vehicles (EVs).

Roughly two-thirds of the world’s cobalt is found in central Africa’s Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a country ravaged by civil war that still suffers from violence and human rights violations.

Consumption of cobalt has soared in recent years – as has its price, at times – and this surge in demand has increased the attractiveness of the material to artisanal or small-scale miners (ASMs) who may work in harsh conditions and get paid a pittance. Market analysts say ASMs account for about 20% of Congolese production.

According to a Morgan Stanley report, an eightfold demand for cobalt is expected by 2026, particularly for use in consumer devices and electronic vehicles (EVs).

A standard laptop requires around one ounce (0.028kg) of cobalt, while an electric car battery requires up to 20 pounds (9.07kg). Sainath Yadati, partner IoT/AI/blockchain at IBM Global Business Services in Michigan, felt the timing were right to leverage blockchain technology to resolve issues around trust and transparency in the cobalt supply chain.

“Our remit is to enable large corporations to behave better as global citizens,” Dr Garrett says.

2019, primarily, it says, to achieve more transparency around its responsible sourcing.

Mr Yadati contacted US-based car company Ford, which has taken a key role in the joint blockchain project.

Iain Fraser, supply chain sustainability expert at Volkswagen, says the automotive group intends to spend €30bn (£27.8bn) on EVs in the next four years and will be one of the world’s biggest consumers of cobalt.

Ford too is pressing ahead with a number of electric and hybrid vehicle launches planned for 2020 onward.

“By collaborating with other leading industries in this network, our intent is to use state-of-the-art technology to ensure materials produced for our vehicles will help meet our commitment to protecting human rights and the environment,” says Lisa Drake, Ford’s vice president of global purchasing and powertrain operations in Michigan.

Other partners in the project are South Korean EV battery producer LG Chem and Chinese cobalt mining and refining company Huayou Cobalt, which also supplies electronics giant Apple.

The pilot launched in January 2019 with the Linux Foundation’s Hyperledger Fabric blockchain technology tracking cobalt produced at Huayou’s DRC mine, to LG Chem’s cathode and battery plant in South Korea and finally into a Ford facility in the US. Hyperledger is a large collaboration hosted by the Linux Foundation that includes IBM and other IT firms, financial institutions and engineering companies. Carmaker Volkswagen came onboard in April

On 12 July, Volkswagen and Ford announced a global collaboration that includes electrification and autonomous driving in Europe and the US. Throughout the blockchain, the parties are creating a private and permissioned transparent audit trail with links to immutable records containing full details of the production characteristics of the cobalt at each stage of the supply chain.

Dr Garrett says that in this project, blockchain is not replacing “real world” auditing or due diligence obligations; visits to mining sites, refinery and manufacturing plants are still needed to validate responsible practices.

However, he says the data gathered during assessments allows for greater transparency and the determination of origin, while blockchain can help

Blockchain explained Blockchain is a distributed and decentralised digital record keeping system that enables the creation and maintenance of a growing number of records, allowing fast tracking of information. It was created in 2009 to manage transactions through crypto-currency

Pilot project

Bitcoin, but has since shown potential for sharing and retrieving many other forms of data.

A chance meeting at a 2018 event in London brought together Mr Yadati and Berlin-based Nicholas Garrett, CEO of RCS Global Group.

As a transaction occurs, it’s encoded into a block of digital data and uniquely signed or identified. New blocks are stored linearly and chronologically, connected to both the one before and after, creating an irreversible chain that prevents blocks from being changed, moved or inserted.

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suppliers become more efficient in using and managing the data.

While the project’s initial focus is on large-scale miners to service OEM’s mass volumes, it also has the potential to help ASMs gain access to market, as long as they comply with international responsible sourcing requirements. To this end, the network is considering creating incentives to help upgrade ASM activities and help these operators partner with providers of due diligence data to facilitate joining a blockchain-based network.

New members Although the pilot project was due to be completed in late August, the consortium and network was already open to new members in July, with a particular focus on the automotive, electronics, aerospace and defence industries, and their supply chain partners.

Dr Garrett says that while fees for new members are being discussed, the

consortium wants to encourage as many mining companies as possible to join the network: “We are offering very attractive terms to them. They offer a crucial role and are at the beginning of the blockchain.”

For any potential member, the consortium has defined core rules and validating criteria, which RCS Global will scrutinise, to ensure compliance with global responsible sourcing market access requirements set by the OECD and cobalt-specific organisations, such as the Responsible Minerals Initiative and the Responsible Cobalt Initiative.

The consortium also aims to establish a governance board along with forming a new company, likely to happen this year, Mr Yadati says. They expect to extend work beyond cobalt into tantalum, tin, tungsten and gold, otherwise known as conflict minerals: “This is not just about solving a problem with cobalt. It just happens to be the mineral in demand.

This is about sourcing of minerals in general in a responsible way.”

Mr Yadati’s vision is for the network to be self-sustaining with developers coming on board and creating new apps. He envisages responsible sourcing being enabled by a mix of interconnected networks – a network of networks.

Volkswagen’s vision In addition to the cobalt project, Volkswagen aims to see where else blockchain can be effective.

“We are still in an early phase on a project looking at the sustainable sourcing of lead in car batteries,” says Volkswagen supply chain sustainability expert Philipp Bleckmann, based in Berlin.

Volkswagen, like many others, is maintaining a broad approach to blockchain until the technology matures and gains traction, Mr Bleckmann says: “For now, we have to investigate, analyse and ensure that the technology fits our business case.”

SAP German-headquartered software corporation SAP has built up a

will require wholesalers to verify the authenticity of drugs before

strong blockchain ecosystem, following what it terms an “open and

reselling them when the law goes into effect in November and is

protocol-agnostic” approach.

designed to combat the problem of returned drugs, which are often

“SAP’s ambition is to run multi-nodes on multi-clouds and multi-

resold with the risk that some could be counterfeit.

platforms. Decentralised ledgers don’t stop at the perimeter of

SAP launched its ‘Information Collaboration Hub for Life Sciences’

individual data centres,” says Stefan Guertzgen, senior director,

for the US pharmaceutical supply chain in January 2019. The

chemicals for SAP’s global industry marketing and communications

software, developed in collaboration with healthcare company

based in Cologne, Germany.

AmerisourceBergen and drug makers Boehringer Ingelheim,

He notes there has been a lot of interest but also a lot of hype around blockchain in the past few years. While there are compelling benefits in using the technology, Dr Guertzgen says there are

GlaxoSmithKline, enables customers to check the product code, lot, expiration date and serial number against the blockchain that stores the manufacturer’s data.

stumbling blocks too. In his view, the four primary benefits are

In Europe, there is a similar law to the DSCSA but manufacturers

process optimisation; reduced time and cost versus a peer-to-peer

upload the data to the EU regulator’s centralised database. SAP

network; transparency and auditing ability based on an undeniable

says the absence of a centralised approach in the US would require

history; and minimising risk and fraud.

a large number of integrations between all the different solutions,

The stumbling blocks are around the need to have a compelling-

making blockchain an appealing option.

use case; forming consortia with participants at eye level and with

A promising area for blockchain in the chemicals arena is shipping.

mutual trust; ownership of the blockchain and nodes along with

Dr Guertzgen says that completely replacing documentation paper

data security and privacy; technology (limitations in scalability and

flow and removing third-party data aggregators and vendors via

managing big data) and interoperability.

blockchain can generate operational cost savings for all parties.

Dr Guertzgen believes government regulations can play an

Dr Guertzgen says there is still a long way to go – perhaps five to

important role in overcoming some of these obstacles. One

ten years – before blockchain becomes a viable option on a broader

example is the US Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA), which

scale for the chemical industry.

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Mitigating business risk and environmental impact through better product safety Clariant offers a model for software-based risk management

The application of digital technologies is becoming a strategic imperative for most chemical companies as they strive to target safety and sustainability

Clariant, the Swiss-based specialty chemicals company, is acutely aware of the risks associated with the use of restricted substances at every stage in the development process – from substance regulations REACH and TSCA to legal liabilities and costly redesigns.

“If you look at your business environment, you see a rapid increase in regulations,” says Clariant’s Frederic Stalder, who has worked in several roles at the company including almost a decade overseeing performance and process management in procurement.

Fortunately for Clariant and other chemical developers, computer software can help avoid or mitigate business risks and environmental impacts by providing computational analysis, reporting, decision-making tools and more.

“As we are faced with the full bandwidth of regulations, we realise that software

Clariant employs what it calls a ‘holistic’ risk management process to monitor its value chain and communicate with several thousand suppliers.

and big data are requirements for managing risk.”

Slow adaptation The chemical company is one of many now using software solutions across their businesses, from product discovery to production processes and to longterm maintenance and reliability of manufacturing assets.

Generally, the chemicals industry has been slower to adopt these new technologies compared to some – finance and telecommunications have been early leaders – but the pace of adoption has begun to accelerate.”

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“Generally, the chemicals industry has been slower to adopt these new technologies compared to some – finance and telecommunications have been early leaders – but the pace of adoption has begun to accelerate,” says Paige Marie Morse, chemicals industry lead at Massachusetts-based Aspen Technology.

The application of digital technologies is becoming a strategic imperative for most chemical companies as they strive to target safety and sustainability, deliver innovative products to their customers, and keep costs down, she adds.

With the rapid expansion of regulations, complex supply chains, and public access to robust chemical safety information, it is not feasible to keep pace with emerging information without the aid of software tools, says Ari Lewis, principal toxicologist at Gradient, an environmental and risk sciences consulting firm with offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts and in the northeast and northwestern US. “New information may affect [the] development of products by necessitating changes to a whole array of compliance functions, including the communication of worker protections, labelling, and import requirements,” says Ms Lewis.

Optimised software solutions can automate changes to affected products and can alert the user of products that might be affected by new regulations across the globe. Not having such a system can lead to inefficient and potentially incomplete implementation of new product requirements, Ms Lewis adds.

Mitigating risks Clariant uses innovation to anticipate stakeholder needs and add value.

The company recently picked up two awards: the 2019 World Procurement Award in the category of ‘supplier risk management’ and, in March, an EcoVadis sustainable procurement leadership

award for ‘best internal stakeholder engagement’ programme.

“In order to realise our strategic commitment of adding value with sustainability, we need to cooperate with parties across the entire value chain, including our suppliers. Therefore, it is vital to further embed procurement across multiple departments to engage everyone in selecting and managing those suppliers that meet our expectations in terms of sustainability and overall risk management,” says Hans Bohnen, a member of Clariant’s executive committee. “It is great to see these efforts being recognised externally as well.”

In both cases, the awarding organisations highlighted Clariant’s efforts to go beyond its dedicated procurement team and involve multiple internal and external stakeholders to deliver a more integrated supply chain process.

The World Procurement Awards judges recognised Clariant for its “implementation of a holistic risk management process that provides realtime information for assessing its supply chain”.

“Integrating sustainability and risk management across our supply chains and organisation is a crossdepartmental responsibility and requires a broad commitment in order to be a success,” says Markus Mirgeler, Frankfurt, Germany-based head of global procurement services.

Companies can use the information collected and managed by software solutions to make sure that the parts they are using in their products are compliant with regulations before they put them into the product, says Valerie Kuntz, Assent’s Arizona-based specialist in Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) and REACH implementation for large companies.

This design-for-compliance process can be implemented by: • using parts from other compliant products; • loading the design bill of material (BOM) into the system to determine if information already exists; or • running campaigns against those parts where information doesn’t already exist; and • loading the information collected into a product lifecycle management (PLM) system so developers can search for compliant parts within their own system.

For example, when designing a new board, a printed circuit board assembly company working with Assent will load their BOM along with the manufacturer and part information into the Assent software system to see if compliance information is already available. If the information is not available or the part has never been validated, information will be requested from the supplier to confirm compliance, Ms Kuntz says.

Examples of digital solutions in the chemicals sector include: • development of a digital twin – the digital profile of an existing process – to test operational boundaries and possible future capabilities of current assets; these simulations can also be used to train new operators; • implement process control technology that optimises manufacturing operations to lower operating costs, reduce energy use, and ensure that more finished product meets required performance specifications; and • analyse existing process data to better understand process unit failures to avoid unplanned shutdowns, and the related business disruptions and possible emissions, and plan for necessary outages by successfully managing inventory and feedstock demand.

Source: Aspen Technology

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Case Study A personal care product company maintains a database with comprehensive ingredient hazard information and risks for associated products.

During a routine update, the company came across new hazard information for one of its ingredients. This information was incorporated into the database and relevant product risks were recalculated using the new information.

The company became immediately aware of products that did not meet the risk criteria and worked toward making necessary ingredient substitutions.

Source: Gradient

Assent has several experts who follow regulatory changes, validate and advise companies on the processes used for compliance. As regulations are added or updated, the regulatory team work with Assent’s product team to update software. In some cases, they also work with clients and their suppliers.

‘Critical’ elements It is critical for companies to ensure products are compliant and do not pose a health risk, Ms Lewis says.

“As regulatory toxicologists, we are interested in ensuring that we have adequately characterised chemical hazards and risks. Customised software tools that help identify and organise hazard information is critical to sustainable product development,” she says.

“Such tools support the evaluation of the most current hazard information.

Also, computational quantitative structure activity programs support the understanding of the safety of chemicals with limited toxicity data. Filling these data gaps is important for proactively protecting workers and predicting potential risks to the public and the environment.”

React quickly Companies unable to quickly identify and react to a changing regulatory landscape can jeopardise their market access and invite enforcement action that can further delay global sales.

Ms Lewis says software tools that organise toxicity information and facilitate the identification of new hazard information can help limit product liability claims and allow companies to pivot more quickly to ingredients that have fewer toxicological or regulatory concerns.

It is advantageous to identify any product related regulatory or potential health risks as early as possible, eg, in the product development phase.

Ms Lewis says that potentially costly surprises late in product development – or worse, after the product has entered the market – can be avoided.

Looking ahead The chemical sector is embracing the concept of sustainability upstream and down.

“There are still gaps between communication and achievement but companies now take the topic very seriously,” says Michael Kundt, UN Environmental Programme/ Wuppertal Institute Collaborating Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production.

“This is primarily due to the fact that sustainability issues already impact their bottom line and are vital to the future ability to meet customer and societal needs. For leading companies, sustainability is already a field where competition and innovation flourish. The benchmark will continue to be raised.”

Clariant, among others, worked with the Collaborative Center during the development of its EcoTain label, which indicates a four-step lifecycle: sustainable design, responsible process, safe and efficient use, and eco-integration.

As chemical companies, regulatory agencies and software developers refine and expand risk management tools there will be opportunities to improve software performance in the future.

There are additional opportunities to better indicate toxic flags, says Richard E Engler, Washington, DC-based director of chemistry with Bergeson & Campbell law firm.

“In the future, people will better understand what they are making or importing. We will see additional linkages between the TSCA inventory with supply chain information,” Mr Engler says.

Peter Ranslow, owner and president of the Maine-based Consortium for Environmental Risk Management (CERM), says there are many software tools under development for use in the field of toxicology.

“Quantum computing coupled with in vitro high-throughput assays for toxicity will allow us to match toxic effects to things within chemical groups and see how a substance interacts or binds with a protein or strand of DNA on a sub-cellular level,” Mr Ranslow says.

He expects quantum computing to revolutionise predictive toxicology methods.

“With quantum computing and highthroughput data analysis, I think animal testing will become very rare. Where some toxicity data has been questioned in the past, predictive toxicology data will become widely accepted and we will likely be able to drop ‘predictive’ from the toxicological lexicon.”

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EHS reliance on software expected to boost sales to almost $2bn by 2024 Health and safety professionals are integrating chemicals management software into their day-to-day work life Chemicals management is an essential part of the environment, health and safety (EHS) discipline but those responsible for managing it can quickly find they are drowning in data and complexity.

Gone are the days of keeping a chemical inventory manually with paper, pen and a couple of spreadsheets. Now that companies are confronted with a variety of regulatory frameworks on chemical products across the world and growing public awareness of chemical hazards, they need quicker and more efficient ways to track their chemical footprint and compliance. Employees need immediate access to critical chemical hazard information, and an easy way to create labels or track chemical containers.

As a result, more EHS professionals are relying on software to keep on top of chemicals management. A report by market analyst firm Verdantix predicts that spending on firm-wide EHS software will reach $1.2bn in 2019, rising to $1.9bn in 2024.

The younger workforce are also guiding a trend towards ‘gamifying’ chemical safety training

the world, and legislation is constantly changing, it becomes increasingly

More EHS software is implementing gaming concepts like rewards, points, frequent feedback, progression through levels, etc, to make training more effective and learning more fun.”

There are two factors behind this market growth: globalisation and data overload, says Manuela Dukeshire, vice president at Halifax, Canada-based software provider DR-Software: “As companies are expanding their markets, reaching all over

difficult to create the necessary documentation without help.”

The UN Globally Harmonized System (GHS) of classifying and labelling chemicals, for instance, is not really

harmonised in the sense that its name suggests, Ms Dukeshire says.

In May, the UN Economic Commission for Europe (Unece) published the eighth revised edition of the standard. But countries have implemented different GHS versions.

The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) forum – an intergovernmental forum for 21 countries in the Pacitifc Rim, the Americas and Russia – surveyed members on their GHS implementation in early 2019. Four reported using version three of the GHS, four are using version four, and two are on version five. Six countries – Canada, Malaysia, Russia,

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Singapore, Taiwan and the US – said they were about to move to the seventh GHS revision.

While navigating different GHS requirements around the world, companies must stay on top of substance listings, threshold limit values (TLVs), registration requirements and transport legislations, Ms Dukeshire says.

“People generating safety data sheets (SDSs) must deal with all of these and on top of that with the different languages in which they come. It does become quite overwhelming.”

Another lesser-known challenge for EHS professionals is the lack of harmonised classification of raw materials. The harmonisation achieved by the classification, labelling and packaging (CLP) Regulation is “just a drop of water in the ocean”, Ms Dukeshire says.

Until jurisdictions outside of the EU have standardised classifications, companies will be confronted with different SDSs giving different classifications for the same raw material, she says. “A software, where you can clearly see the official classifications for each country, and you can enter your own classifications from your supplier, is of great benefit.”

Working safely Meanwhile, organisations have the challenging task of effectively training employees to work safely around chemicals, says Mike Flynn, vice president of product development and strategy at Chicago-headquartered software provider, VelocityEHS: “Chemicals are so ubiquitous in our workplaces that it is easy to become blind to them.”

“A safety manager may recognise acetone as a hazardous chemical that needs to be accounted for, while entirely overlooking a glass cleaner the custodial staff uses for hours each day.

Speaking broadly, so much of employee

safety starts with sound chemical management.”

The SDS – especially when managed electronically – is a chemical safety asset. A full SDS outlines the hazards of a chemical product, but also what personal protective equipment (PPE) an employee should wear when handling it, proper storage and disposal requirements, details for the corresponding container label, emergency information and procedures, and critical information for the industrial hygiene programme.

According to Mr Flynn, software can help make the SDS more accessible to employees; even more so when it is available on mobile phones and tablets.

Software providers are increasing

most cited violations for over six years.

This suggests that for some, hazard communication is not a priority until an inspection brings existing problems to light. Some, however, have made proper hazardous chemical management a priority simply because they recognise it’s important, Mr Flynn says.

“These EHS professionals are paying more attention to chemical safety not because of compliance or to avoid fines, but because it’s simply the right thing to do. It’s also good business; safe workers are productive workers who are able to focus more on quality.”

Positive trends In general, EHS software fits in perfectly with a worldwide move to

There are two factors behind this market growth: globalisation and data overload” their focus on mobile functionality and apps to give workers more control over managing inventories and accessing critical safety information on-the-go. This “democratisation” of safety information is a critical benefit of chemical management software, he says.

reduce the chemical impact industries have on the environment and human health. It can aid substitution by giving companies up-to-date access to import restrictions, hazard classifications and prohibitions on substances in different jurisdictions.

Younger generations entering the workforce are pushing EHS software providers to go mobile, Mr Flynn says. Millennials became the largest generational group in the US labour force in 2016, and are expected to make up 75% of the workforce by 2025. The younger workforce are also guiding a trend towards ‘gamifying’ chemical safety training, Mr Flynn says.

Large companies and retailers have their own sustainability initiatives with growing lists of chemicals that they are restricting or de-selecting, says Michigan-based Gregory Bond of Manitou View Consulting. Dr Bond worked at Dow for 35 years and assisted the UN in researching and writing a recent report on chemical management and information sharing.

“More EHS software is implementing gaming concepts like rewards, points, frequent feedback, progression through levels, etc, to make training more effective and learning more fun.”

As chemicals management and compliance become more complex, boards of directors and senior management want greater assurance that the company is doing the right thing, Dr Bond says. This means not only complying with existing requirements, but also to anticipate new requirements before they hit business by surprise.

And yet, hazard communication has topped the US Occupational Health and Safety Agency’s (Osha’s) list of the top ten

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“This manifests itself in more rigorous internal auditing programmes [and], in turn, in less individual business unit autonomy and greater central functional oversight,” Dr Bond says. Together, this increased scrutiny on chemical compliance and want for overarching systems, “drives a trend away from small, homegrown software solutions toward use of more enterprise resource planning (ERP) type software solutions,” he says.

Already, EHS software is becoming more and more integrated with other systems in the company, as its use is spreading across departments, says Brussels-based Kristof Lecocq, sales and marketing director at software provider

VelocityEHS’s Mike Flynn says SMEs are increasingly adopting EHS software solutions to streamline their chemical management processes, as they are becoming more affordable and faster to implement.

“Today’s flexible, cloud-based solutions can be up-and-running quickly for a fraction of the cost of older custom systems,” he says. “When compared to the efficiencies provided by the technology and rising fines, penalties, and worker compensation rates, it’s easier for companies of all sizes to make a more effective business case for the adoption of EHS software.”

This will keep evolving in the future up to a point where EHS software will become part of a company’s ecosystem, together with the ERP software” Lisam Systems. “This will keep evolving in the future up to a point where EHS software will become part of a company’s ecosystem, together with the ERP software,” he says.

In fact, chemicals management software is already integrated in the sales cycle.

Customers are known to ask companies for an SDS before placing an order and consider its quality as a factor when deciding whether to take their business elsewhere, Mr Lecocq says.

Software for small players Smaller companies, in particular, need to integrate software solutions to continue selling in different regions with minor and major differences in chemical legislation.

“Larger companies can more easily cope with this as they have a large EHS department, but the smaller and mediumsized companies (SMEs) struggle as they export to a lot of different regions but lack the manpower,” Mr Lecocq says.

Top solutions Good software will be flexible to the needs of the company, big or small.

“Companies are different and they have all come up with their own ways to address compliance requirements. So having a system that can be flexible is really important,” says Ian Cohen, product marketing manager at US-based EHS software provider, Cority. The company has offices across North America, Europe, China, Australia and the Middle East.

Most businesses want a software solution that can grow and expand with them, as their chemical compliance needs will inevitably change, Mr Cohen says. And in order to make the system grow with the company, communication between the customer and the provider is paramount. “[At Cority] we have a user community that allows us to engage with clients via several channels, such as a customer

success team, an advisory board, and an annual user group that enables folks to tell us what they like and don’t like.

“Is there a magic system out there that does it all? Some are pretty close but you really need a software solution that knows they don’t know it all. We can always learn from our customers,” Mr Cohen says.

At its best, EHS software drives companies toward better, proactive chemical management, he says, as it helps identify risks on site before they happen. “[Software] helps break down silences in a business, for example by helping operations understand how to protect employees.”

“You get a centralisation and standardisation of procedures with chemical management software which is paramount for success in every EHS department.”

Mr Cohen says it’s a “chicken and egg situation”. Which came first? The chemical management software solution or the compliance?

“But at the end of the day, the software drives improvement.”

51% of chemical

companies are considering implementing software in the next 12 months * according to Chemical Management Software Survey, 2019

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Software supports move towards a circular economy business model Product stewardship and chemical management software is helping companies adopt more sustainable practices.

Sustainability and the circular economy are hot topics right now as companies look to improve their green credentials and their bottom line.

The aim of a circular economy is to optimise resource consumption and reduce waste and pollution. As the International Council for Chemical Associations notes, chemistry provides the building blocks for nearly 96% of all manufactured goods. Therefore, it’s fair to say the chemical sector will play a crucial role in the circular economy’s success.

Product stewardship and safety are at the heart of enabling the circular economy and many companies are going beyond managing regulatory compliance to set stewardship initiatives and sustainability goals.

“Twenty years ago a company would be focused on doing what the current regulations said you had to do,” says Philip Mole, environment and sustainability content manager at Chicago-based software company VelocityEHS. “We’re seeing a shift now.

While regulations are still important, they’re not the whole picture. People are now emphasising improved sustainability through chemical management as a positive value in itself.”

“Our values, globally, are changing in support of these kinds of initiatives,” he adds.

Chemical management and control is intertwined with product stewardship.

Companies need to know what is in their product and which substances are

The younger workforce are also guiding a trend towards ‘gamifying’ chemical safety training

subject to regulations for both product compliance and sustainability.

ensuring the data’s quality, traceability and intellectual property (IP).

“If you know what’s in your product and who’s in your supply chain, it’s easier to be compliant and sustainable,” says Joerg Walden, the Germany-based CEO of software company iPoint-systems.

“The more complex the product, supply chain and industry, the more data you need and the more effort involved.

Handling this enormous task manually is resource-intensive, time-consuming, and expensive,” Mr Walden adds.

However, companies face the enormous task of collecting, analysing, managing and reporting compliance and sustainability-related data across the entire supply chain and throughout every phase of a product’s lifecycle, all while

So, as more businesses are going down the road toward improved sustainability, they’re looking for the best tools. Software vendors are responding by providing systems that,

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among other things, offer improved visibility, traceability and communication throughout the supply chain.

“With the support of software, companies can simplify complex tasks like data collection, entry, validation and analysis, replacing tedious, time-consuming, and error-prone manual processes with automated processes. This automation can free up resources, reduce human errors and simplify processes,” Mr Walden says.

Enabling software A circular economy, or optimising resource consumption and reducing waste and pollution, can be greatly assisted through diligent use of multiple software programmes. Chemical management and product stewardship software platforms help streamline compliance and sustainability by enabling internal communication across functions as well as external partners that make up the wider supply chain.

“The byproduct of this is greater organisational and product transparency, which can better inform sustainable decision making by consumers and business users. This promotes sustainability throughout the product and supply chain lifecycles,” says Donavan Hornsby, vice president and corporate strategy executive at Gensuite in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Margaret Whittaker, managing director and chief toxicologist at consultancy ToxServices in Washington, DC, says software can be used to design out and toxic chemicals throughout the supply chain.

“Companies can start their journey by requiring suppliers to use software to screen input and process chemicals to remove carcinogenic, mutagenic and reprotoxic (CMR ) and persistent bioaccumulative toxic (PBT) substances,” she says.

“In terms of minimising waste and pollution, more companies are

harnessing easy to access apps and web portals to validate that suppliers are adhering to appropriate process chemicals and wastewater management practices,” she adds.

Philip Mole says that environmental, health and safety (EHS) software can also help by keeping a company’s chemical inventory up to date, indexing ingredients and flagging certain chemicals.

“Back when I was an EHS manager this was a lot tougher,” he says. “You had to rely on email communication and physical internal policy documents.

But with a software system you can actually flag a chemical and radiate those notifications out to everyone.”

The design phase The US amended TSCA in 2016, causing more chemicals to come under review by the EPA and creating a need for more transparency relating to chemical risk in the design phase.

More importantly, according to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, roughly

a problem for yourself to solve down the road,” he says.

Which tool to use?

As there are many chemical management software packages available, one of the challenges is working out which is the best tool to support sustainability within each business.

Sylvie Lemoine, executive director product stewardship at Cefic, recommends companies look for the following features: • a unified approach to the scope of information sharing in every downstream sector; • simplicity and affordability – software should be accessible to all market players, including small to medium enterprises (SMEs); and • convergence between the tools – data from one system should be transferable to another tool.

But what if a company has a unique supply chain challenge that cannot be benchmarked for sustainability with available software?

Consider reaching out to the designers of current software systems and have one tailor made” 80% of a product’s environmental impacts – toxicity, waste and pollution – are determined at the design stage.

Consequently, this phase of the lifecycle is critical to improving sustainability.

“Consider reaching out to the designers of current software systems and have one tailor made,” Ms Whittaker says.

Mr Mole believes that, understanding this, more software companies are focusing on developing platforms that facilitate improved management for entire product lifecycles.

It’s also important to consider the benefits of a unified system. These enable companies to centralise management and maximise crossfunctional collaboration.

“More software will be designed to help guide people through the process of chemical risk assessment right from the start – even helping them find alternatives. If you can design out problem chemicals then you don’t cause

Furthermore, “connecting operational activities with sustainability and safety objectives becomes more natural through a unified management system where measures are aligned,” says Gensuite’s Donavan Hornsby.

The arguments for and against a unified system

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Having a centralised, integrated system for chemical product, raw material, customer and sales data makes supply chain communication, regulatory reporting, management of change, and other product stewardship functions not just manageable, but a value-added part of your business says Canada’s CGI, an information technology consulting company.

“It’s critical to have a scalable, integrated system in place to enable predictable, sustainable and cost-effective global chemical compliance,” CGI says.

Mr Mole agrees: “There are a lot more things you need to do when you’re on the sustainability path. When you start getting into all these tasks you understand how important it is to have a connected system. When you’re looking at sustainability it’s all about the flow of information across all the different stakeholders.”

A unified system ensures a higher degree of harmonisation of data, but Dr Lemoine understands that it may not be practical or realistic to have just one software available. Ms Whittaker, on the other hand, believes that a single software platform approach is not the ideal choice.

That’s because each industry has unique hotspots where they fall short, be that overuse of fossil-based energy sources, excessive wastewater discharge or overuse of toxic chemicals.

“There is not a one-stop software system that will transform a company into one that equally optimises inputs, outputs, energy and toxics. To harmonise outputs and increase economies of scale, software systems should be designed to share data through application programming interfaces (APIs),” she says.

Blockchain One of the most interesting areas of research is around using blockchain technology to ensure data security and facilitate improved sharing of information. Blockchain is a promising

There are a lot more things you need to do when you’re on the sustainability path. When you start getting into all these tasks you understand how important it is to have a connected system. When you’re looking at sustainability it’s all about the flow of information across all the different stakeholders” new technology that can support materials traceability and supply chain transparency. Why? “Because data recorded on a blockchain is not only instantly verifiable but also immutable. Each transaction is recorded and added to the previous one, resulting in a growing chain of information. This allows users to potentially inspect the entire, uninterrupted chain of custody from the raw materials to the sale of the finished product to end users,” says Mr Walden.

Technology firm CircularTree, associated with iPoint-systems, has developed HazChain, a chemical safety data platform.

“HazChain allows you to have all your data in one place, which has multiple benefits. You can connect safety data sheets with manufacturers, suppliers and enterprise end users and can use it for waste management and recycling,” says CircularTree’s Gunther Walden, cofounder and CEO based in Berlin.

Right now the processes are expensive and inefficient. There’s no communication standard, no single data access point. If you deal with a number of suppliers then you have to look out for an SDS from them all – and not only once, because they change over time.

“There’s no common communication protocol or workflow. With HazChain we’ve developed a single source of trusted data. Using blockchain allows you to verify that the information you have is correct and completely up to date,” Mr Walden says.

Blockchain offers many advantages.

“Traceability of certified inputs and outputs is ensured, unethical and counterfeited sources are kept out of the supply chain and costly and corruptible auditors can be replaced by a crowdbased reporting mechanism. With blockchain you have only one single, verified version of the truth that everyone can trust,” he adds.

Making a change In his book The Fourth Industrial Revolution, World Economic Forum founder Klaus Schwab says that emerging technologies change behaviour and systems of production and consumption by making sure that hidden costs come to light. More than ever, companies across a wide range of sectors are becoming aware of the cost of waste and bad practice – and the need to change.

However, as Ms Whittaker says, sustainability software is like a pair of running shoes sitting in the closet: “Your health only improves if you decide to actually put them to use.”

She recommends that companies maintain their motivation by joining associations committed to fostering best practices around sustainability and the circular economy, and to “realise that you’re not alone on your journey. Commit to lifting up others in your industry once you become adept at incorporating these software solutions into your own supply chain.”

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Glossary Use the glossary to look up key terms and how we define the different functions/capabilities presented in the profiles.

Service areas Regulatory compliance Chemical safety assessment Hazard communication Stewardship

Software functions/capabilities Regulatory compliance Change management (chemicals)

manage chemical regulatory compliance during operational or regulatory change

Data management (regulatory lists, substance data)

source chemical and regulatory information

Reporting

present data as reports for regulatory bodies, shareholders, government agencies etc

Substance volume tracking

capture and track substance volumes to ensure compliance

Hazardous material management

manage SVHC throughout the supply chain

Chemical inventory management

track inventory information required for regulatory reporting

Chemical safety prediction

help fill data gaps on hazardous materials

Product compliance

ensure products meet compliance requirements before going to market

Regulatory management

track regulatory updates and changes

Compliance assurance

conduct auditing in order to maintain compliance

Chemical safety assessment Hazard assessment

assess hazard endpoints, toxicology and screening

Exposure assessment

assess and manage safe exposure levels for workers

Risk assessment

assess risk of chemicals in materials/products

Worker safety

determine hazards in the workplace, comply with hazard communications and 'right-toknow' eg SUMI

Environmental safety

assess the environmental impact of chemicals

Consumer safety

assess the impact on consumers of chemicals in consumer products

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Hazard communication Supply chain communication

communicate vital information, providing a unified access point for all users

SDS authoring

support creation of SDS

SDS management

support distribution and maintenance of SDS records

Incident management

improve EHS performance and mitigate risk by capturing data on incidents and identifying root causes

Labelling

create labels for substances that meet regulatory compliance requirements

Stewardship Product lifecycle management

minimise environmental impact of chemicals in products through management and scrutiny of design/manufacturing process

Full material declaration

identify and track all substances in products to help minimise environmental impact

Supplier information

find and track supplier information to ensure end-to-end compliance

Corporate social responsibility

manage CSR metrics and data collection, assess and report on long-term CSR sustainability goals

Acronyms SaaS – software as a service ERP – enterprise resource planning PLM – product lifecycle management CSR – corporate social responsibility EMIS – environmental management information systems EHS – environmental health and safety FMD – full material disclosure BOM – bill of materials LIMS – laboratory information management system

Software functions/capabilities are indicated using the following terms Core – standard function/service of the product Enabled (Enb) – function/service is enabled by a partner Customisable (Cst) – customisable module before purchase

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ALMEGO ®

by CHYMEIA ApS

About

www.almego.com

ALMEGO® is the new generation of SDS authoring software. It is provided by CHYMEIA ApS and based on more than a decade of development and dedicated focus on improving the SDS authoring process.

ALMEGO® offers a high degree of automation in a SaaS solution. The automated processes are supplemented by a unique built-in guidance, a flexible structure and an intuitive user interface. ALMEGO® is a completely new type of SDS authoring software. Offered in a variety of affordable price-models, including unit-pricing.

(ALMEGO® is targeted SDS authors in both small and large companies, and it is developed with a platform also making it an efficient, attractive and low-cost solution for SDS authoring consultants.)

+45 7240 1622

Service areas Regulatory compliance Chemical safety assessment Hazard communications Stewardship

Functions/Capabilities

Features •

User-friendly and intuitive interface;

•

an advanced CLP calculator;

•

built-in guidance and help functionalities;

•

easy data migration from the existing software;

•

high degree of automation with smartrule authoring;

•

easy integration with other software; and

easy updating and translations to many languages;

•

•

info@chymeia.com

a price model tailored with flexible terms.

That is exactly what we have developed with ALMEGO®. This new SDS authoring software has been designed with the needs of the users in focus. All in an up-to-date SaaS platform.

You can see and try it.

Regulatory compliance Change management (chemicals)

Core

Data management (regulatory lists, substance data)

Core

Reporting Substance volume tracking Hazardous material management Chemical inventory management

Cst Cst -

Chemical safety prediction

Core

Product compliance

Core

Regulatory management

Core

Compliance assurance Supply chain management

Cst -

Chemical safety assessment Hazard assessment

Product details

User experience Customisable, Off-the-shelf, Configurable, integrated guidance tool Pricing structure Licensed, Pay-per-use, Subscription, Free trial

Integration capabilities ERP, PLM, EMIS, EHS, Formula Management, LIMS Content type Database, Regulatory updates Expertise Purchasing, Planning & management, Implementation, Integration

Risk assessment

Core Cst Core

Worker safety

Cst

Environmental safety

Cst

Consumer safety

-

Hazard communication Supply chain communication

Core

SDS authoring

Core

SDS management

Core

Incident management Labelling

Core

Stewardship Product lifecycle management Full material declaration

Core

Supplier information

-

Corporate social responsibility

-

Cst – Customisable | Core – Core service | Enb – Enabled

Software type SaaS, Cloud based

Exposure assessment

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CDX Compliance Data eXchange

By DXC Technology

About

www.cdxsystem.com

The CDX helps you efficiently gather, store and report product content for use in compliance and material reporting to agencies and customers worldwide. By using our service, you can:

cdx-info@dxc.com

• capitalise on your supply chain’s knowledge by using established standards and procedures;

Service areas

• communicate product content with your suppliers and customers in real time;

Chemical safety assessment

• stay ahead of new requirements by analyzing existing product content and planning where changes are needed;

Regulatory compliance Hazard communications Stewardship

• benefit from our Chemical Service which manages the growing regulations for you; and • minimize your reporting costs.

Functions/Capabilities Regulatory compliance Change management (chemicals)

Core

Data management (regulatory lists, substance data)

Core

conflict minerals declaration manager helps to easily manage the collection and roll up of data from your supply chain;

Reporting

Core

•

partial and full material declaration;

Product compliance

Core

•

web services connect CDX to your internal systems (SAP EHSM…);

Regulatory management

Core

Features •

•

• •

CDX is a cloud solution which can be used off the shelf, no implementation costs needed; Chemical Service maintains growing regulations like RoHS, REACH Candidate List, Annex XIV and XVII, TSCA, Cal Prop65 and others; create own regulations and chemical substance lists; supply chain management and onboarding support;

•

•

import of IMDS data;

•

import of and export to IPC1752A, IPC1754 and IEC62474 format; and

•

analyse your data and create reports.

Cst

Hazardous material management

Core

Chemical inventory management

Enb

Chemical safety prediction

Compliance assurance Supply chain management

Enb

Enb Core

Chemical safety assessment Hazard assessment Exposure assessment Risk assessment Worker safety

Enb Enb Core Cst

Environmental safety

Core

Consumer safety

Core

Hazard communication

Software type SaaS, Cloud based with WebService connection to local systems User experience Customisable, Configurable, Off -the-shelf with options for company specific features Pricing structure Licensed, Subscription, Free trial for 30 days

Integration capabilities ERP, PLM, EMIS, EHS, Formula Management, LIMS, via CDX Web Services systems can be connected

Supply chain communication

Content type Database, Regulatory updates,

Stewardship

Expertise Purchasing, Planning & management, Implementation, Integration, Compliance Processes

Core -

SDS authoring SDS management

Cst

Incident management

-

Labelling

-

Product lifecycle management

Cst

Full material declaration

Core

Supplier information

Core

Corporate social responsibility

Cst

Other support services

Partners • EPR Consulting Content provider

• Compliance Professional Content provider

• RSJ Technical Consultancy

• Tetra Tech

•

Free webinars and events

•

Consulting and System integration services

•

Data import from IMDS, IPC1752A, IEC62474

Consultancy

Cst – Customisable | Core – Core service | Enb – Enabled

Product details

Substance volume tracking

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CHEMDOX®

By CHEMDOX®

About

www.chemdox.com

The CHEMDOX® company provides an outstanding software solution for the chemical industry: Assure regulatory compliance; Classify chemicals according to numerous regulations; Generate high-quality safety-related documents in the most efficient way.

office@chemdox.com +43 1 5321489 0 / +1 888 8369462

What do our clients like about us?

The CHEMDOX® software has been developed by experts for experts. It’s efficient, open, flexible and really supports compliance. It is easy to use, easy to integrate and easy to automate. All this, based on state-of-the-art technology and an outstanding customer support.

Service areas

The CHEMDOX® company is a 100% subsidiary of UCS – unique computing solutions gmbh – developing high-quality software since 1999.

Stewardship

•

•

Chemical management: Manage chemicals easily and efficiently with the CHEMDOX® software and its legal content, and substance database; Classification calculators: Improve regulatory compliance when classifying chemicals according to several regulations (e.g. GHS, transport, national regulations). The CHEMDOX® regulatory calculators provide automatically computed classification suggestions;

Regulatory compliance

•

•

•

•

SDS authoring: Generate SDS efficiently and ‘translate’ your SDS into 40+ countries taking into account official languages, national legal terminology as well as national regulations;

Change management (chemicals)

Core

Data management (regulatory lists, substance data)

Core

Reporting

Core

Hazardous material management

Core

Hazard labelling: Create multilingual hazard labels with our flexible label editor;

Chemical inventory management

Enb

SDS distribution: Distribute SDS automatically with no manual effort; and System integration & data exchange: The CHEMDOX® software provides easy and state-of-the-art integration with other IT systems. Electronic exchange of data furthermore improves productivity and quality.

Product details Software type SaaS, Cloud based, Locally installed User experience Customisable, Off-the-shelf, Configurable Pricing structure Licensed, Subscription, Free trial

Integration capabilities ERP, PLM, EMIS, EHS, Formula Management, LIMS Content type Database, Regulatory updates Expertise Purchasing, Planning & management, Implementation, Integration

Partners • Several Regional Consulting and Sales Partner Worldwide

Hazard communications

• Several Software Partner (ERP, Labelling, etc.)

Substance volume tracking

Chemical safety prediction

Enb

-

Product compliance

Core

Regulatory management

Core

Compliance assurance

Core

Supply chain management

-

Chemical safety assessment Hazard assessment

Core

Exposure assessment

Core

Risk assessment

Enb

Worker safety

Core

Environmental safety

Core

Consumer safety

-

Hazard communication Supply chain communication

Core

SDS authoring

Core

SDS management

Core

Incident management Labelling

Cst Core

Stewardship Product lifecycle management

Core

Full material declaration

Core

Supplier information

Core

Corporate social responsibility

Other support services •

Free Software Demo

•

Extensive Customer Support

•

CHEMDOX® Days

-

Cst – Customisable | Core – Core service | Enb – Enabled

Regulatory coverage: Cover global regulatory requirements on a best practice level and up-to-date for all major markets in e.g. Europe, Asia, Americas;

Chemical safety assessment

Functions/Capabilities

Features •

Regulatory compliance

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Chemeter emeter

by SIAM

About

www.siam-it.com

Chemeter is a reliable SDS authoring software which provides you with country specific legislation, up-to-date regulatory information, continuous new features development and professional assistance.

Chemeter is a friendly modular software which accommodates each company’s needs considering the country, sector and the aim of the company. It creates an extended range of documents; such as SDS, e-SDS, labels, dangerous goods documents and sector specific paperwork.

sales@siam-it.com +44 2 037 697 400

Service areas Regulatory compliance Chemical safety assessment Hazard communications

Features •

•

•

•

Chemical data management: a solid substance database is available and constantly under review; SDS authoring software: it generates compliant and multilingual SDS for more than 50 countries; regulatory coverage: specific documentation for the main chemical industrial fields; label editor: an innovative tool for designing CLP and GHS labels;

Stewardship

•

SDS efficient management and distribution;

•

updated software: new features are constantly developed and legislative updates implemented;

•

•

integration with your system: the data transfer between your existing system and Chemeter is done very easily; and further documents: extended SDS (e-SDS), dangerous goods documents and sector specific paperwork.

Product details Software type SaaS, Cloud based, Locally installed

Pricing structure Licensed, Pay-per-use, Subscription, Free trial Integration capabilities ERP, PLM, EMIS, EHS, Formula Management, LIMS

Expertise Purchasing, Planning & management, Implementation, Integration

Regulatory compliance Change management (chemicals)

Core

Data management (regulatory lists, substance data)

Core

Reporting

Core

Substance volume tracking

Core

Hazardous material management

Core

Chemical inventory management

Core

Chemical safety prediction

Core

Product compliance

Core

Regulatory management

Core

Compliance assurance

Core

Supply chain management

Core

Chemical safety assessment Hazard assessment

Core

Exposure assessment

Core

Risk assessment

Core

Worker safety

Core

Environmental safety

Core

Consumer safety

Core

Hazard communication Supply chain communication

Core

SDS authoring

Core

SDS management

Core

Incident management Labelling

Core

Stewardship Product lifecycle management Full material declaration Supplier information Corporate social responsibility

Other support services •

SIAM Workshops

•

SIAM Newsletter

•

SIAM Free demo

Cst -

Cst – Customisable | Core – Core service | Enb – Enabled

User experience Customisable, Off-the-shelf, Configurable

Content type Database, Regulatory updates

Functions/Capabilities

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ChemGes

by DR-Software

About

www.dr-software.com

With more than 1,800 customers in 69 countries, DR-Software is a leader in creating and managing SDSs, labels and Internal Plant Instructions. Solutions range from single workstations to worldwide corporate networks, equally meeting the requirements of global enterprises and SMEs. ChemGes combines transport, environmental and safety data and calculates risks and hazards, from which documents according to various international standards and in 38 languages, are easily and quickly authored. Thus, leading to significant cost and time savings for complying with legislation globally.

A maintenance contract guarantees unlimited hotline support and access to all software and legislative updates. Legal and data changes are implemented quickly.

• • •

•

Offices in Canada, USA, Austria, Germany, France, Italy; available in four screen languages (English, French, German, Italian); raw material database of 25,000 substances; automatic country-specific classification according to the UN-GHS and its worldwide implementation (including OSHA HCS, CLP, WHMIS 2015);

•

TLVs, Substance Listings, Tox Data;

•

entering a formulation and outputting an SDS, takes only a few minutes;

•

extremely high scalability/flexibility, for all industries and needs;

•

•

transport classification; estimation of physical/chemical data;

•

automatic creation of SDSs and labels in 38 languages;

•

label module;

•

IPIs;

User experience Customisable, Off-the-shelf, Configurable, Vast level of functionality Pricing structure Licensed, Subscription, Maintenance contract subscription

Regulatory compliance Chemical safety assessment Hazard communications Stewardship

• •

Regulatory compliance Change management (chemicals)

Core

Data management (regulatory lists, substance data)

Core

Reporting

Core

Hazardous material management Chemical inventory management

rule-based form generator allows for fully-automatic SDS and label creation and update; network capability for standardized data management; and expert team provides professional, fast hotline support for all questions on the software, legislation, and technical matters.

Integration capabilities ERP, PLM, EMIS, EHS, Formula Management, LIMS, Custom program for integration Content type Database, Regulatory updates, Extensive database and formulae Expertise Implementation, Integration

Cst

Substance volume tracking

experienced in-house software engineers quickly implement userspecific program adjustments and customised applications;

Product details Software type Locally installed; local installation ensures utmost security

Service areas

Core Cst

Chemical safety prediction

Core

Product compliance

Core

Regulatory management

Core

Compliance assurance

Core

Supply chain management

Core

Chemical safety assessment Hazard assessment

Core

Exposure assessment

Core

Risk assessment

Core

Worker safety

Core

Environmental safety

Core

Consumer safety

Core

Hazard communication Supply chain communication

Core

SDS authoring

Core

SDS management

Core

Incident management

Core

Labelling

Core

Stewardship -

Product lifecycle management Full material declaration

Core

Supplier information

-

Corporate social responsibility

-

Other support services •

Unlimited hotline support, manual, topic guidance documents

•

customised training, webinars

Cst – Customisable | Core – Core service | Enb – Enabled

•

North America +1 902 832 3425; Europe +43 (0)2628 61900

Functions/Capabilities

Features •

info@dr-software.com

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Devex Baseline for Chemical Industries

by Selerant

About

www.selerant.com

Selerant is a leading global provider of Product Lifecycle Management Software (PLM), regulatory compliance and Safety Data Sheets Authoring Solutions for the chemical industry. We serve the Specialty Chemicals, Detergents, Paints, Coatings, Flavours, Fragrances and Personal Care/Cosmetics sectors.

Our bespoke software solutions manage the complete chemical product lifecycle: from product development and formulation, to regulatory compliance and hazard labelling, and with ability to integrate with any ERP system.

Over the past 30 years Selerant has grown to become an acknowledged industry leader in PLM and compliance for process manufacturing industries with our solutions helping hundreds of companies around the world maintain the highest standards of regulatory compliance and manage product lifestyle management with our integrated solutions.

Selerant has a global presence with offices in Europe, North America and APAC.

sales@selerant.com +39 (0)278 6203

Service areas Regulatory compliance Chemical safety assessment Hazard communications Stewardship

Functions/Capabilities Regulatory compliance

Features Devex Baseline for Chemical Industries provides a smart integrated product lifecycle management solution (PLM).

Core templates: •

ingredient management;

•

packaging management;

•

formula management;

•

finished product management; and

•

regulatory management

•

pre-configured security and defined user roles;

•

test trial and approved formulas against compliance calculations;

•

Each package includes: •

pre-configured product data sets;

•

material and specification templates; business process workflows;

•

documentation and reports;

•

paint specific features to calculate Total Wet Paint Volume, Total-, Volume-, Binder- and Pigment Solids, as well as the P/B ratio and PVC; and create Safety Data Sheets (SDS)

Core

Data management (regulatory lists, substance data)

Core

Reporting

Core

Substance volume tracking

Cst

Hazardous material management

Cst

Chemical inventory management

Core

Chemical safety prediction

Core

Product compliance Regulatory management Compliance assurance Supply chain management

Cst Core Cst Core

Chemical safety assessment Hazard assessment Exposure assessment

Core Cst

Risk assessment

Core

Worker safety

Core

Environmental safety Consumer safety

Cst -

Hazard communication Supply chain communication

Core

Product details

SDS authoring

Core

SDS management

Core

Software type Saas, Cloud based, Locally installed, Devex is a system with ready-to-use templates

Integration capabilities ERP, PLM, EMIS, EHS, Formula Management, LIMS

Incident management

User experience Customisable, Off-the-shelf, Configurable

Content type Regulatory updates

Pricing structure Licensed, Pay-per-use, Subscription

Partners • Microsoft Other

• Oracle Other

Expertise Purchasing, Planning & management, Implementation, Integration

Labelling

Cst Core

Stewardship Product lifecycle management

-

Full material declaration

Core

Supplier information

Core

Corporate social responsibility

-

Cst – Customisable | Core – Core service | Enb – Enabled

•

•

chemicals specific features to calculate density using AWD approximation, Risk Assessment and Color Tests for the formulae;

Change management (chemicals)

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Ecobio Manager

By Ecobio

About

www.ecobiomanager.com www.ecobio.fi

Since 1989, Ecobio is the first environmental management consultancy in the Nordics. It has won various awards for its innovations.

Ecobio Manager (a cloud service) is an effective and intelligent platform for chemical safety, product stewardship, EHS compliance management, and risk assessment in a wide variety of industries and countries. It combines software, content, and expertise. Whether you’re a small mobile or local company or a large international corporation, our platform can be scaled to meet the requirements of your enterprise.

sales@ecobiomanager.com +35 820 756 9456

Service areas Regulatory compliance Chemical safety assessment Hazard communications

Features

Stewardship

Chemicals at workplaces •

safety data sheets (SDS) are updated automatically for workplaces; and

•

restricted substances are matched with chemical indexes.

Product stewardship •

•

automatic tracking of legal requirements by product groups or products and restricted substances in your products and components; and compliance assessment.

EHS and social responsibility compliance •

a comprehensive collection of environmental, chemical, occupational

health, work safety, and social responsibility regulations and statutes; and •

compliance assessment.

Risk assessment •

environmental, health and safety as well as chemical exposure risk assessment;

•

automatic risk calculation;

•

expert team; and

•

Ecobio´s expert team provides professional support. For example, expertise for chemical REACH registration is available.

Product details Integration capabilities Formula Management

User experience Customisable, Configurable

Content type Database, Regulatory updates, Up-to-date SDSs

Pricing structure Licensed, Pay-per-use, Subscription, Free trial

Expertise Purchasing, Planning & management, Implementation, Integration

Regulatory compliance Change management (chemicals)

Core

Data management (regulatory lists, substance data)

Core

Reporting

Core

Substance volume tracking

-

Hazardous material management

Core

Chemical inventory management

Core

Chemical safety prediction

Core

Product compliance

Core

Regulatory management

Core

Compliance assurance

Core

Supply chain management

Cst

Chemical safety assessment Hazard assessment

Core

Exposure assessment

Core

Risk assessment

Core

Worker safety

Core

Environmental safety

Core

Consumer safety

-

Hazard communication Supply chain communication SDS authoring SDS management Incident management Labelling

Core Core Cst Core

Stewardship Product lifecycle management

-

Full material declaration

Core

Supplier information

Core

Corporate social responsibility

-

Other support services •

EU REACH Registration of Chemicals

•

Corporate Sustainability Services

Cst – Customisable | Core – Core service | Enb – Enabled

Software type SaaS, Cloud based

Functions/Capabilities

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Element 1

by H2 Compliance

About Element1 was developed 10 years ago to support the delivery of REACH management services including Only Representative, Dossier Authoring & Management, Hazard Communication and Team Participation.

As we move into REACH 2.0, with challenges in data management, requirements for routine dossier updates, emergence of REACH-Likes in other jurisdictions as well as Substances of Concern and Poison Centre Notifications, the element1 platform has undergone significant developments to cope with these requirements.

The application is a SaaS delivered over Amazon Web Services achieving the highest level of security, reliability and speed of user engagement.

www.h2compliance.com/chemicalcompliance/ info@h2compliance.com +353 21 4868120 +49 (0)602 162 5350

Service areas Regulatory compliance Chemical safety assessment Hazard communications Stewardship

Features REACH • Track tonnages used and forecasted to ensure that REACH activities are identified, decisions made and registrations authored/updated in good time; •

•

•

•

identify and manage risks, eg Tonnages, SVHCs, and Supply Chainrelated issues, in a structured and efficient manner; dossier Authoring and Updates using project management and task templates for repeatability; budget Management and reporting to manage current and future known costs;

archiving of documents and their association with Substances and Projects; and

•

tracking Substances of Concern and highlighting these to the user.

CLP • poison centre notifications: generation of submission files, managing confidentiality and managing the submission, update and financial processes; and •

C&L Notifications: Within 30 days of first placing substances on the EU market, flag and support the preparation, submission and maintenance of data sets.

REACH-Likes • As REACH principles are developed in other jurisdictions, eg China, Korea, Turkey,

Functions/Capabilities Regulatory compliance Change management (chemicals)

Core

Data management (regulatory lists, substance data)

Cst

Reporting

Cst

Substance volume tracking

Core

Hazardous material management

Core

Chemical inventory management

Core

Chemical safety prediction Product compliance

Cst

Regulatory management

Core

Compliance assurance

Core

Supply chain management

Core

Chemical safety assessment Hazard assessment Exposure assessment Risk assessment Worker safety Environmental safety Consumer safety

Core Cst Core Cst Cst Core

Hazard communication Supply chain communication

Core

SDS authoring

Enb

Product details

SDS management

Cst

Incident management

-

Software type SaaS, Cloud based

Pricing structure Licensed, Subscription, Free trial

Labelling

-

User experience Customisable, Off-the-shelf, Configurable

Integration capabilities ERP, EHS, Formula Management

Stewardship Product lifecycle management Full material declaration Supplier information Corporate social responsibility

Partners • Atto Partners Consultancy

Cst Cst Core Cst

Cst – Customisable | Core – Core service | Enb – Enabled

supply Chain Compliance to mitigate the risk of interruption and provide traceability;

•

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epos hazardous substances manager by epos Software & Service AG

About

www.gefahrstoff.com

epos hazardous substances manager is a software solution to create safety data sheets and other documents for hazardous substances management. The software enables the user to author and manage safety data sheets in different country versions (EU and beyond).

The software is configurable with different modules to further enhance the hazardous substances management depending on the different needs of each company (eg private label management, connection to other systems).

All software-based options can be combined with several outsourcing services offered.

info@gefahrstoff.com 0049 (0)602 162 5350

Service areas Regulatory compliance Chemical safety assessment Hazard communications Stewardship

Features •

Formula and private label management;

Regulation and Chinese Hazardous Substance Inventory);

•

SDS authoring for 40+ countries;

•

GHS classification assistant with automatic, rule-based SDS creation;

•

Interface to connect other systems (ERP, labelling etc.);

•

dangerous goods classification;

•

product notification (PCN);

•

GHS classification for USA, Canada, China, Brazil and Europe;

•

SDBtransfer import/export interface – SDScomXML;

•

European Phrase Catalogue (EuPhraC); individual phrases possible;

•

automatic SDS distribution and/or upload on homepage;

•

country-specific limits;

•

expert support via hotline or E-Mail; and

•

substance database (legal classifications according to CLP;

•

combination of service and software for optimised processes.

Functions/Capabilities Regulatory compliance Change management (chemicals)

Core

Data management (regulatory lists, substance data)

Core

Reporting

Core

Substance volume tracking

Core

Chemical inventory management

Core

Chemical safety prediction

Core

Regulatory management

Core

Compliance assurance

-

Supply chain management

-

Chemical safety assessment

Content type Database, Regulatory updates

User experience Off-the-shelf, Configurable

Expertise Planning & management, Implementation, Integration

Pricing structure Licensed, Subscription, Free trial Integration capabilities ERP, PLM, EMIS, EHS, Formula Management, LIMS

Core

Risk assessment

Core

Worker safety

Core

Environmental safety

-

Consumer safety

-

Hazard communication Supply chain communication

Content provider

-

SDS authoring

Core

SDS management

Core

Incident management Labelling

Core

Stewardship Product lifecycle management

-

Full material declaration

-

Supplier information

-

Corporate social responsibility

-

Partners • Qualisys GmbH

-

Exposure assessment

Other support services •

Outsourcing service

•

Seminars and training

•

Hotline support

Cst – Customisable | Core – Core service | Enb – Enabled

Software type SaaS, Cloud based, Locally installed

-

Product compliance

Hazard assessment

Product details

-

Hazardous material management

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ExESS

by Lisam Systems

About

www.lisam.com

ExESS is a powerful, integrated software solution (.NET) based for global environmental health, safety and transportation management.

marketing@lisam.com

ExESS rules calculators, analyse, adhere to and maintain compliance with local and international EHS and transport regulations. Utilising over 2000 algorithms and supported by major product and regulatory databases worldwide, ExESS is able to generate accurate and consistent regulatory documents including SDS, (e)SDS, various transport documents, regulatory compliant labels, etc.

ExESS supports over 50 languages which can be linked to any product or regulatory database and allows the creation of custom templates to ensure local regulatory compliance.

•

Service areas Regulatory compliance Chemical safety assessment Hazard communications Stewardship

Functions/Capabilities

Features •

+32 6749 0003

Regulatory compliance

SDS, labels & other documents management; provides multi-lingual document creation ((e)SDS, labels, Workplace Instruction Cards), validation and distribution;

Apart from the classification functionalities provided as standard in the system such as: CLP, GHS US, GHS CN, ADR etc. ExESS also provides customers with the ability to add own rules:

Change management (chemicals)

Core

Data management (regulatory lists, substance data)

Core

Reporting

Core

Substance volume tracking

Core

Hazardous material management

Core

•

rule (Blocks);

Chemical inventory management

Core

Chemical safety prediction

Core

Product compliance

Core

•

SDS Authoring;

•

parents – child relations;

•

allows for the creation and maintenance of the customer Product database. It allows the manual addition (or importation) of new products to the database; and

•

versioning;

Regulatory management

Core

•

phrase libraries;

Compliance assurance

Core

•

content updates;

•

history/track changes;

•

classification & rules creation

Supply chain management

•

data exchange; and

•

administration and security.

Software type Locally installed, Client server User experience Customisable, Off-the-shelf, Configurable Pricing structure Licensed, Subscription, Free trial, Concurrent user based and modular

Integration capabilities ERP, PLM, EMIS, EHS, Formula Management, LIMS Content type Database, Regulatory updates Expertise Purchasing, Implementation, Integration

Hazard assessment

Core

Risk assessment

Core

Worker safety

Core

Environmental safety

Core

Consumer safety

Core

Hazard communication Supply chain communication

Core

SDS authoring

Core

SDS management

Core

Incident management

Core

Labelling

Core

Stewardship Product lifecycle management

Core

Supplier information

Core

Partners Content provider

• EIGA Content provider

• JCDB Content provider

• Emori Systems integrator

Cst

Full material declaration Corporate social responsibility

• wikiChemia

-

Exposure assessment

Other support services •

Lisam Systems Events

•

Lisam Systems News

•

Lisam Systems Free Demo

Cst

Cst – Customisable | Core – Core service | Enb – Enabled

Product details

Cst

Chemical safety assessment

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Gensuite SDS Systems

by Gensuite LLC

About

www.gensuite.com

Gensuite® enables companies to implement robust cross-functional compliance and management systems – locally, globally and across diverse operating profiles. For over two decades, we’ve helped companies manage safe & sustainable operations worldwide, with a focus on fast return on investment (ROI), service excellence and continuous innovation.

Join over 1,000,000 users that trust Gensuite with their compliance and EHS&S software system needs! Gensuite Chemical Management software simplifies chemical hazard communication and risk management. Utilize a suite of applications for chemical labeling processes, regulatory analysis and reporting, Safety Data Sheet (SDS) maintenance, and environmental and product compliance.

nikhilkumar.mantripragada@ gensuitellc.com +1 513 774 1000

Service areas Regulatory compliance Chemical safety assessment Hazard communications Stewardship

Features •

• •

•

Meet hazard communication (HazCom) obligations through easy to use desktop and Mobile-friendly search capability; maintain up-to-date SDS software for all chemical products; generate Globally Harmonized System (GHS), National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), and Health Information Management System (HIMS) compliant labels for container marking and shipping needs; setup a customized workflow for review and approval of all new chemical products;

•

screen country-level regulatory applicability for chemical products and ensure compliance with reporting requirements;

Pricing structure Subscription, Free trial

Enb Core

leverage SDS constituent data for regulatory-required reporting;

Reporting

Core

•

manage chemical inventory tracking from order entry to onsite usage with inventory management extension features; and

Substance volume tracking

Core

Hazardous material management

Core

Chemical inventory management

Core

•

Meet notification requirements under Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) reform.

Chemical safety prediction Product compliance

Enb Core

Regulatory management

Enb

Compliance assurance

Enb

Supply chain management

Enb

Chemical safety assessment Hazard assessment

Core

Exposure assessment

Core

Risk assessment

Core

Worker safety

Core

Environmental safety

Core

Consumer safety

Cst

Hazard communication

Content type Database, Regulatory updates

Supply chain communication

Core

SDS authoring

Core

Expertise Implementation, Integration

SDS management

Core

Incident management

Core

Labelling

Core

Stewardship

Partners • enhesa Content provider

• AECOM Consultancy

• HUCO Consulting Consultancy

• Bloomberg BNA Content provider

Product lifecycle management

Core

Full material declaration

Core

Supplier information

Core

Corporate social responsibility

Other support services •

Gensuite Events

•

Contact Page

Cst

Cst – Customisable | Core – Core service | Enb – Enabled

Customisable, Off-the-shelf, Configurable

Change management (chemicals)

•

Integration capabilities ERP, PLM, EMIS, EHS, Formula Management, LIMS

User experience

Regulatory compliance Data management (regulatory lists, substance data)

Product details Software type SaaS, Cloud based

Functions/Capabilities

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Hazex

by Selerant

About

www.selerant.com

Selerant is a leading global provider of Product Lifecycle Management Software (PLM), regulatory compliance and Safety Data Sheets Authoring Solutions for the chemical industry. We serve the Specialty Chemicals, Detergents, Paints, Coatings, Flavours, Fragrances and Personal Care/Cosmetics sectors.

Our bespoke software solutions manage the complete chemical product lifecycle: from product development and formulation, to regulatory compliance and hazard labelling, and with ability to integrate with any ERP system.

Over the past 30 years Selerant has grown to become an acknowledged industry leader in PLM and compliance for process manufacturing industries with our solutions helping hundreds of companies around the world maintain the highest standards of regulatory compliance and manage product lifestyle management with our integrated solutions.

Selerant has a global presence with offices in Europe, North America and APAC.

sales@selerant.com +39 (0)278 6203

Service areas Regulatory compliance Chemical safety assessment Hazard communications Stewardship

Functions/Capabilities Regulatory compliance

Features Selerant’s software solutions, dedicated to EHS industries, are modular and flexible. We enable companies to manage the complete chemical product lifecycle, from idea to label, and offer global coverage with technical and regulatory support in more than 30 languages.

Change management (chemicals)

Core

Data management (regulatory lists, substance data)

Core Enb

Reporting

Cst

Substance volume tracking Hazardous material management

Core

Hazex SDS Authoring and Distribution Solution helps you to create and manage:

Chemical inventory management

Core

Chemical safety prediction

Core

•

exposure scenarios;

Product compliance

Core

Regulatory management

Core

Compliance assurance

Core

worldwide GHS regulations;

•

•

SDS distribution;

•

EU Cosmetic Regulation and PIF,

•

transport classification;

•

•

hazard labelling;

Transport Document (DDT ADR and Multimodal);

•

European Poison Centres notification (UFI and PCN format);

• •

Cst

Supply chain management

Chemical safety assessment

technical data sheet creation; and

Hazard assessment

IFRA and more.

Exposure assessment

Enb

Risk assessment

Enb

Core

Cst

Worker safety

Product details

Hazard communication

Software type Cloud based, Locally installed, Hazex is a SDS authoring and distribution solution

Formula Management, LIMS, Possible also NAV integration

SDS authoring

Core

SDS management

Core

Content type

Labelling

Customisable, Off-the-shelf, Configurable, Customisable by end user or the provider Pricing structure Licensed, Subscription Integration capabilities ERP, PLM, EMIS, EHS,

Database, Regulatory updates, Country and region driven data packages Expertise Purchasing, Planning & management, Implementation, Integration, Regulatory consultancy and training on demand

Partners Other

Core

Consumer safety

Core

Enb

Supply chain communication

User experience

• Federchimica

Environmental safety

• Normachem Consultancy

• Microsoft Other

• Oracle Other

Cst

Incident management

Core

Stewardship Product lifecycle management

Enb

Full material declaration

Enb

Supplier information

Cst

Corporate social responsibility

Cst

Other support services •

EHS blog available in 4 languages

•

EHS webinars

•

Selerant PLM and EHS events

Cst – Customisable | Core – Core service | Enb – Enabled

Hazex SDS Authoring and Distribution solution can be smoothly integrated with any ERP system.

Chemicals Management Software Guide 39

Intelligent Compliance Solutions for Chemical and Workplace Safety

by Verisk 3E

About

www.Verisk3E.com

Verisk 3E™ provides award winning SDS and chemical management tools that are flexible, scalable, and modular, offering a variety of options and enhancements based on your organization’s needs. Verisk 3E employs a full service approach to SDS management, assuming the burden of obtaining and maintaining the currency of all SDSs in your chemical inventory across all of your global locations. Beyond managing and maintaining SDSs, our solution can enhance your overall hazard communication program, supported with many options, including sophisticated safer chemical analytics which enable your team to perform intelligent risk assessments, evaluating product hazards based on SDS data and exposure considerations.

•

•

•

+1 760 602 8700

Service areas Regulatory compliance Chemical safety assessment Hazard communications Stewardship

Features •

info@Verisk3E.com

Take control of chemical inventory management and approval, managing which chemicals enter a given facility; enable every handler to access updated SDSs, labels and Extended Safety Data Sheets (eSDSs) in the language and jurisdiction required anytime, anywhere 24-7-365; eliminate time wasted chasing suppliers for SDSs and let Verisk 3E obtain and manage revisions to all SDSs across all of your locations;

•

•

•

research, identify, analyse, track, complete and submit required disclosures, permits and reports on your behalf for requirements related to emergency planning, community rightto-know, hazardous materials storage and handling and waste generation; access live, global 24-7-365 emergency and incident response for spills, ingestions and exposures; quickly and expertly evaluate the relative hazards of your chemicals, mixtures and products to assess health and environmental risk and determine mitigation measures; and stay abreast of continually changing regulatory obligations in multiple markets and jurisdictions and quickly determine their impact on operations.

Functions/Capabilities Regulatory compliance Change management (chemicals)

Core

Data management (regulatory lists, substance data)

Core

Reporting

Core

Substance volume tracking

Enb

Hazardous material management

Enb

Chemical inventory management

Core

Chemical safety prediction

Enb

Product compliance

Core

Regulatory management

Core

Compliance assurance

Enb

Supply chain management

Enb

Chemical safety assessment Hazard assessment

Core

Exposure assessment

Core

Risk assessment

Core

Worker safety

Core

Environmental safety

Core

Consumer safety

Core

Product details

Hazard communication Supply chain communication

Core

Software type SaaS, Cloud based

Integration capabilities ERP, PLM, EMIS, EHS, Formula Management, LIMS

SDS authoring

Core

SDS management

Core

Content type Database, Regulatory updates, SDS and other documents

Stewardship

User experience Customisable, Off-the-shelf, Configurable Pricing structure Subscription, Free trial

Expertise Planning & management, Implementation, Integration

Partners • Enablon Content provider

• ProcessMap Content provider

Incident management Labelling

Product lifecycle management Full material declaration Supplier information Corporate social responsibility

Other support services • Verisk 3E Events and User Groups

• Intelex Content provider

• Cority Content provider

• SAI Global Content provider

• Verisk 3E EHS Webinar Series • Verisk 3E Blog • Verisk 3E Resource Center

Enb Core

Enb Enb Core -

Cst – Customisable | Core – Core service | Enb – Enabled

integrate current, comprehensive regulatory content and documents including SDSs, eSDSs, technical data sheets, compliance declarations and material declarations into your EHS, procurement, EMIS or ERP systems.;

•

40 Chemicals Management Software Guide

Intelligent Compliance Solutions for Product Safety & Stewardship

by Verisk 3E

About

www.Verisk3E.com

Verisk 3E™ provides intelligent product safety and stewardship solutions that leverage reliable, global regulatory content to accelerate the development and launch of safer products. Our core competence lies in researching, obtaining, aggregating, validating, and enriching compliance related data and making it actionable and available to our customers.

Through a unique combination of regulatory reference tools, outsourced services and integrated content solutions, Verisk 3E can empower you with comprehensive regulatory insights that can be directly embedded throughout your product safety and stewardship processes to drive informed, proactive decisions.

Our rich collection of curated regulatory content can be integrated directly into many commercially available EHSQ, EMIS and PLM systems, such as Intelex, Enablon and Cority.

In addition, Verisk 3E serves as SAP’s strategic development partner and is the preferred provider of regulatory content for SAP S/4HANA for Product Compliance.

info@Verisk3E.com +1 760 602 8700

Service areas Regulatory compliance Chemical safety assessment Hazard communications Stewardship

Functions/Capabilities Regulatory compliance

Features •

•

•

ensure compliance of products and chemicals to secure the right to market, sell and ship products in intended markets; seamlessly exchange safety and product data across the organization to increase accuracy, compliance and productivity; create, analyse and manage globally compliant, multilingual hazard

communication documentation including Safety Data Sheets (SDSs), exposure scenarios and labels via outsourced services or installed software; •

•

address requirements for voluntary compliance initiatives including sustainable product design and development, Corporate Social Responsibility and non-government Organisation obligations; and Streamline processes to reduce costs, mitigate risk, deliver to market on time and meet customer demands for customisation

User experience Customisable, Off-the-shelf, Configurable Pricing structure Licensed, Subscription, Free trial

Integration capabilities ERP, PLM, EMIS, EHS, Formula Management

Content provider

• ProcessMap Content provider

Reporting

Core

Substance volume tracking

Core

Hazardous material management

Enb

Chemical inventory management

Core

Chemical safety prediction

Core

Product compliance

Core

Regulatory management

Core

Compliance assurance Supply chain management

Hazard assessment

Core

Exposure assessment

Core

Risk assessment

Core

Worker safety

Core

Environmental safety

Core

Consumer safety

Core

Supply chain communication

Core

SDS authoring

Core

SDS management

Core

Labelling

Content type Database, Regulatory updates, Full text of regulations Expertise Planning & management, Implementation, Integration

Content provider

• Intelex Content provider

Core

Stewardship Product lifecycle management Full material declaration Supplier information Corporate social responsibility

Other support services • Verisk 3E Events and User Groups

• Enablon

Enb Core

Chemical safety assessment

Incident management

Partners • SAP

Core

Hazard communication

Product details Software type SaaS, Cloud based, Locally installed

Core

Data management (regulatory lists, substance data)

• Cority Content provider

• Verisk 3E EHS Webinar Series • Verisk 3E Blog • Verisk 3E Resource Center

Enb Enb Core Enb

Cst – Customisable | Core – Core service | Enb – Enabled

•

Proactively manage the health, safety and environmental aspects of raw materials and intermediate and consumer products to reduce potential risks to people and the environment;

Change management (chemicals)

Chemicals Management Software Guide 41

iPoint Compliance and Approval App by iPoint-systems

About

www.ipoint-systems.com/resources

The iPoint Compliance and Approval App (iPCA) is a cross-industry software solution for collecting, aggregating, verifying, exchanging, and reporting product-related data.

info@ipoint-systems.de +49 (0)71 211 448 960

It uses flexible and scalable integration technology to ensure that the materials used comply with legal as well as individual requirements.

The highly integrative and customizable IT architecture suits your needs. As a single point of entry data platform for complex process landscapes it allows you to work with the systems of your choice (eg SAP® add-on) and consistently adapt your processes to the requirements of the markets.

Service areas Regulatory compliance Chemical safety assessment Hazard communications Stewardship

Features •

BOM import from connected PDM system;

•

automated update of compliance check routines in case of regulatory changes;

• • •

•

•

integrated business process management; integration with existing IT environments;

•

integration with industry-leading part libraries (e.g. IHS CAPS Universe etc.);

•

•

integration of supply chain data;

•

adaptive regulatory compliance;

•

production process and product approval (PPA);

comprehensive chemical Inventory process management platform (eg SDS/TOX Process);

Change management (chemicals)

Core

Data management (regulatory lists, substance data)

Core

Reporting

Core

Substance volume tracking

Core

connect all departments and sites in one system; and

Hazardous material management

Core

Chemical inventory management

Core

Chemical safety prediction

Core

Product compliance

Core

Regulatory management

Core

reduce time and efforts: Use existing data in diverse contexts to meet a large number of regulations and requirements.

-

Compliance assurance Supply chain management

Core

Chemical safety assessment -

Hazard assessment

Core

Risk assessment

Core

Worker safety

Core

Environmental safety

Core -

User experience Customisable, Off-the-shelf, Configurable

Pricing structure Licensed, Subscription Integration capabilities ERP, PLM, EHS,

Hazard communication Supply chain communication

Core

SDS authoring

Core

SDS management

Core

Incident management

-

Labelling

-

Stewardship

Partners • MSC Hexagon Other

• JEMAI Other

Product lifecycle management

Core

Full material declaration

Core

Supplier information

Core

Corporate social responsibility

Core

Other support services •

Webinars, events

•

Whitepapers, ebookys, videos, etc

Cst – Customisable | Core – Core service | Enb – Enabled

Exposure assessment

Consumer safety

Software type SaaS, Cloud based, Locally installed

Content provider

Regulatory compliance

evaluate and approve all existing and new products, materials, substances used within your company;

Product details

• IHS

Functions/Capabilities

42 Chemicals Management Software Guide

MSDSonline SDS/Chemical Management solution

by VelocityEHS

About

www.MSDSonline.com

VelocityEHS’ MSDSonline solutions include award-winning, cloud-based and mobile-enabled SDS/Chemical Management tools, as well as SDS Authoring, Regulatory Consulting and globally recognised Emergency Response Services (powered by ChemTel), which make it easy and cost effective to keep workers safe and maintain regulatory compliance.

The popular MSDSonline HQ and HQ RegXR Accounts are newly updated with hundreds of additional and improved features that further streamline SDS access and management, and global regulatory compliance. Plus, robust capabilities for workplace/secondary container labeling, product and container-level inventory management and regulatory cross-referencing centralize organization-wide chemical management.

velocity@ehs.com +1 888 362 2007

Service areas Regulatory compliance Chemical safety assessment Hazard communications Stewardship

Features •

•

•

24/7 access to millions of SDSs, with auto-updates to ensure an up-to-date and GHS-aligned library;

•

mobile-enabled functionality provides right-to-know access to SDS and chemical inventory information even when offline, via a convenient mobile app;

•

expanded language capabilities give employees immediate access to vital safety information in the languages they understand;

•

•

easy workplace container labeling functionality, including integration with key label partners; enterprise-wide visibility of chemical inventories—track and manage chemicals by location; regulatory reporting tools, including easy generation of Tier 2 reports; and SDS Authoring, Regulatory Consulting and new Emergency Response Services (powered by ChemTel).

Functions/Capabilities Regulatory compliance Change management (chemicals)

Core

Data management (regulatory lists, substance data)

Core

Reporting

Core

Substance volume tracking

Core

Hazardous material management

-

Chemical inventory management

Core -

Chemical safety prediction

-

Product compliance Regulatory management

Core

Compliance assurance

-

Supply chain management

-

Chemical safety assessment -

Product details

Hazard assessment

Software type SaaS, Cloud based

Integration capabilities EHS, Supports emergency planning and EPCRA reporting

Risk assessment

Core

Worker safety

Core

Environmental safety

Core

Content type Database, Regulatory updates

Hazard communication

Pricing structure Licensed, Subscription, Free trial, subscription costs scalable

Expertise Purchasing, Planning & management, Implementation, Integration, SDS Authoring and Regulatory Consulting Services

-

Consumer safety

Supply chain communication

Core

SDS authoring

Core

SDS management

Core -

Incident management Labelling

Core

Stewardship Product lifecycle management

-

Full material declaration

-

Supplier information

-

Corporate social responsibility

-

Other support services •

Emergency Response Services

•

Regulatory information, webinars, whitepapers & guides

•

VelocityEHS website including all EHS software solutions

Cst – Customisable | Core – Core service | Enb – Enabled

User experience Off-the-shelf, Configurable, Designed to be simple and flexible out of the box

-

Exposure assessment

Chemicals Management Software Guide 43

PubliChem

by Lisam Systems

About

www.lisam.com

The PubliChem application was created in an effort to help companies comply with the REACH Standards for SDS archiving and distribution.

marketing@lisam.com

Its document management functionalities will help suppliers to safely store any document used for chemical safety purposes. In addition, PubliChem boasts advanced tracking functionalities to ensure the safe receipt of the sent documents.

Because it easily integrates with your existing systems, PubliChem will help you to bring SDS authoring and ERP information all together for a fully automated distribution job in multiple formats, multiple languages and for multiple regions.

+32 6749 0003

Service areas Regulatory compliance Chemical safety assessment Hazard communications Stewardship

Features Supplier functionalities: • document management: storage of any kind of document related to a chemical (safety data sheets, labels, technical data sheets, specifications etc) and management of documents metadata: region, language, version, archived status; •

active and passive distribution: automatic distribution of safety data sheets based on orders information and documents updates. Distributed documents are also shared on the

platform to downstream users via free restricted accounts; •

• • •

distribution Tracking: possibility to track the receipt and the reading of distributed documents; interfaces with External Systems; data import: formats: XLS, XLSX, TXT, CVS, XML; and permissions management.

Downstream user functionalities: • document repository; and •

document request.

Product details

User experience Customisable, Off-the-shelf, Configurable Pricing structure Licensed, Pay-per-use, Subscription, Free trial

Integration capabilities ERP, PLM, EMIS, EHS, Formula Management

Regulatory compliance Change management (chemicals) Data management (regulatory lists, substance data) Reporting Substance volume tracking

Core -

Hazardous material management

Core

Chemical inventory management

Core

Chemical safety prediction

Core

Product compliance Regulatory management Compliance assurance Supply chain management

Core -

Chemical safety assessment Hazard assessment

-

Exposure assessment

-

Risk assessment

-

Worker safety

-

Environmental safety

-

Consumer safety

-

Hazard communication Core

Content type Regulatory updates

Supply chain communication

Expertise Planning & management, Implementation, Integration

Incident management

-

Labelling

-

SDS authoring SDS management

Core

Stewardship Product lifecycle management Full material declaration Supplier information Corporate social responsibility

Other support services •

Lisam Systems Events

•

Lisam Systems News

•

Lisam Systems Free Demo

Core -

Cst – Customisable | Core – Core service | Enb – Enabled

Software type SaaS, Cloud based

Functions/Capabilities

44 Chemicals Management Software Guide

SAP EHS consulting and support services by eSpheres

About

www.espheres.com

SAP®EHS Consulting, Maintenance & support services: eSpheres supports projects and strengthens corporate EHS and IT departments by efficiently providing them with adequate resources to implement SAP®EHS into any organisation.

Experts in SAP®EHS and HSE data management and have developed IT-tools to facilitate our customers’ use of their EHS system. eSpheres implement, deploy and integrate the SAP® EHS(M) modules.

Expertise in product safety, SVT, Incident & accident, risk assessment, Vendor SDS management, IDMP and recipe management, global label management; dangerous goods, conflict minerals. eSpheres out-tasks and support SAP®EHS regulatory content updates on client systems.

SAP®EHS consulting, maintenance and support services;

•

IT project management;

•

SAP®EHS Training: expert rules creation, SDS release generation but also customer tailored SAP®EHS training programs;

•

• •

+32 473 581 473

Service areas Regulatory compliance Chemical safety assessment Hazard communications Stewardship

Functions/Capabilities

Features •

philip.capel@espheres.com

outsourced EHS regulatory content update (SERC, Sphera) for SAP product safety and SDS authoring (Quarterly updates); poison center notification (PCN) solution for SAP®EHS

manage EHS data from SDS.pdf into XML, CSV files, to facilitate your HSE data management for SAP®EHS; •

• •

•

regulatory compliance consulting – product stewardship support for SAP®EHS; own developed applications to facilitate users daily on SAP®EHS; SAP®EHS Rules and Phrases management, non-regression testing; and WWI templates development (SDS, Labels, ..) for SAP.

software tools to file, extract and

Change management (chemicals)

Core

Data management (regulatory lists, substance data)

Core

Reporting

Core

Substance volume tracking

Core

Hazardous material management

Core

Chemical inventory management

Core

Chemical safety prediction

Enb

Product compliance

Core

Regulatory management

Core

Compliance assurance Supply chain management

Cst Core

Chemical safety assessment Hazard assessment

Core

Exposure assessment

Core

Risk assessment

Core

Worker safety

Core

Environmental safety

Core

Consumer safety

Core

Hazard communication

Integration capabilities ERP, PLM, EMIS, EHS, Formula Management

Expertise SAP EHS support services

Content type SAP EHS content via third parties

Supply chain communication

Core

SDS authoring

Core

SDS management

Core

Incident management

Core

Labelling

Core

Stewardship Product lifecycle management

Core

Partners

Full material declaration

Core

Supplier information

Core

• SAP

Corporate social responsibility

Core

Software Provider

• REACHLaw Other

Cst – Customisable | Core – Core service | Enb – Enabled

Product details

Regulatory compliance

Chemicals Management Software Guide 45

Software for Chemical Hazard Transparency, Management, and Compliance

by Toxnot

About

www.toxnot.com

Toxnot streamlines chemical hazard screening, supplier data collection, compliance assessment & product reporting in a single, powerful cloud-based platform.

info@toxnot.com

Toxnot’s end-to-end solutions, industry partnerships, and customer service are best-inclass. Innovative compliance & supply chain engagement tools are based on single BOM import making it easy for users to screen against 50+lists, explore chemical alternatives, assure regulatory compliance – all while protecting IP. Automated disclosures to the leading standards allow for scalable & efficient reporting. Toxnot is a powerful solution for today’s transparency needs.

+1 617 971 7747

Service areas Regulatory compliance Chemical safety assessment Hazard communications Stewardship

Features •

Easy-to-organize database of products, parts & sub-components;

•

data integration across product compliance and sustainability;

•

support for complex hierarchical BOMs, as well as relationships between products, parts, subcomponents & suppliers;

•

world-class chemical hazard & regulatory list database;

Change management (chemicals)

Core Core

supplier survey functionality that improves responses & scales to global supply chains; and

Data management (regulatory lists, substance data) Reporting

Core

Substance volume tracking

Core

Hazardous material management

Core

Chemical inventory management

Core

Chemical safety prediction

Core

Product compliance

Core

Regulatory management

Core

Compliance assurance

Core

Supply chain management

Core

•

digitized workflows for collecting chemical- and regulatory-level data on products, parts & sub-component;

•

•

data analytics & reporting capabilities to meet a variety of business needs.

Product details Software type SaaS, Cloud based

Integration capabilities ERP, PLM, EHS,

User experience Customisable, Off-the-shelf, Configurable

Content provider

Chemical safety assessment Hazard assessment

Content type Database, Regulatory updates, 50+ lists and custom list options

Exposure assessment

Expertise Licensed, Subscription, Free trial, Enterprise & Team available

Partners • IHS

Regulatory compliance

Risk assessment

-

Environmental safety

-

Consumer safety

-

Hazard communication Supply chain communication

Core

SDS authoring

Core

SDS management

Core

Labelling

• JEMAI Other

Cst Core

Worker safety

Incident management

• MSC Hexagon Other

Core

Core

Stewardship Product lifecycle management

-

Full material declaration

Core

Supplier information

Core

Corporate social responsibility

-

Other support services •

Guide to getting started with Product Transparency

•

LinkedIn Toxnot User Group

Cst – Customisable | Core – Core service | Enb – Enabled

Pricing structure Licensed, Subscription, Free trial, Enterprise & Team available

Functions/Capabilities

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Sphera Product Stewardship Solutions

By Sphera Solutions

About

www.sphera.com

Sphera’s solutions combine software, content and expertise to enable companies to more effectively drive operational excellence in risk management, environmental performance and product stewardship. Product Stewardship Solutions help create safer, more sustainable products and effectively manage chemicals throughout the lifecycle.

Product compliance Our solutions help organisations create and automate the production of compliant SDSs and labels in nearly 50 languages with global integrated managed regulatory content. In addition, businesses gain insight into product portfolios for analysis and planning.

Chemical management Benefit from a consolidated platform for SDS management, chemical approvals and chemical inventory tracking as well as regulatory list data and environmental reporting.

Our solution manages inbound, storage, tracking, reporting and outbound hazardous material information.

Features Product compliance •

•

•

•

Chemical management

Streamline and automate your Safety Data Sheet authoring and material management processes;

•

adapt to continuous changes in regulations and proactively plan for and manage impacts of evolving requirements;

•

succeed by efficiently managing the complexity of designing and rolling out product to multiple markets; and

•

control your inventory. Develop total product awareness and mitigate risk with Sphera’s product inventory & chemical approval solutions; and report anything, anytime. Eliminate guesswork, cross reference global regulations, and keep suppliers, companies, consumers and regulatory agencies informed.

+1 312 796 7160

Service areas Regulatory compliance Chemical safety assessment Hazard communications Stewardship

Functions/Capabilities Regulatory compliance Change management (chemicals)

Core

Data management (regulatory lists, substance data)

Core

Reporting

Core

Substance volume tracking

Core

Hazardous material management

Core

Chemical inventory management

Core

Chemical safety prediction

Core

Product compliance

Core

Regulatory management

Core

Compliance assurance

-

Supply chain management

-

Chemical safety assessment Hazard assessment

Core

Worker safety

Core

Environmental safety

-

Consumer safety

-

Hazard communication

Product details

User experience Customisable, Configurable, Off-the-shelf, global localisation Pricing structure Licensed, Subscription, SDS Hosting & Distribution, Onsite inventory

Integration capabilities ERP, PLM, EMIS, EHS, Formula Management, LIMS Content type Database, Regulatory updates, Rules, Templates, Languages, Regulatory content Expertise Purchasing, Planning & management, Implementation, Integration, Regulatory and Authoring services

Partners • ERM Consultancy

• LinxAS Systems integrator

-

Risk assessment

Supply chain communication

Software type SaaS, Cloud based, Locally installed

Enb

Exposure assessment

• Opesus Software provider

Enb

SDS authoring

Core

SDS management

Core -

Incident management Labelling

Core

Stewardship Product lifecycle management

Core

Full material declaration

Core

Supplier information

Enb

Corporate social responsibility

Enb

Other support services •

Check out Sphera’s Reources

•

Sphera’s Product Stewardship Page

•

Sphera’s Award-Winning Spark Magazine

Cst – Customisable | Core – Core service | Enb – Enabled

empower your teams to efficiently classify products and create GHS and REACH compliant Safety Data Sheets for global markets.

Provide access to the most accurate up-to-date SDS and chemical safety documentation available;

insights@sphera.com

Chemicals Management Software Guide 47

Targeted Risk Assessment (TRA) Tool

by European Centre for Ecotoxicology and Toxicology of Chemicals (ECETOC)

About

www.ecetoc.org

ECETOC’s Targeted Risk Assessment (TRA) tool calculates the risk of exposure from chemicals to workers, consumers and the environment. It has been identified by the European Commission’s Regulation on Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) as a preferred approach for evaluating consumer and worker health risks (ECHA, 2016 a,b):

info@ecetoc.org

ECHA. 2016a. REACH Technical Guidance on information requirements and chemical safety assessment, Chapter R14: Occupational Exposure Estimation. European Chemicals Agency, Helsinki, Finland.

ECHA. 2016b. Guidance on information requirements and chemical safety assessment, Chapter R15: Consumer Exposure Estimation (Version 2, April 2010). European Chemicals Agency, Helsinki, Finland These improvements now enable the information contained within developments such as the DUCC Specific Consumer Exposure Determinants to be suitably processed.

+32 2 675 3600

Service areas Regulatory compliance Chemical safety assessment Hazard communications Stewardship

Functions/Capabilities Regulatory compliance Change management (chemicals) Data management (regulatory lists, substance data)

Features • • •

Addresses exposures to workers, consumers and the environment;

Reporting

Core -

•

ability to run the tool in batch mode;

Substance volume tracking

•

MS Excel based: does not require access to skilled technical support to operate tool; and

Hazardous material management

supported by extensive technical reports and user guidance

Regulatory management

-

Compliance assurance

-

Supply chain management

-

optimised for the use descriptor requirements of REACH; ready ability to iterate impact of different RMMs and OCs on risk;

Core -

•

Chemical inventory management Chemical safety prediction Product compliance

Cst

Chemical safety assessment Hazard assessment

Product details

Exposure assessment

Core

Integration capabilities REACH Registration CSA obligations

Risk assessment

Core

Worker safety

Core

Environmental safety

User experience Off-the-shelf, Configurable

Content type Exposure prediction via substance properties and use

Consumer safety

Core Core

Pricing structure Free Excel-based tool

Hazard communication Supply chain communication SDS authoring

Cst

SDS management

-

Incident management

-

Labelling

Stewardship Product lifecycle management

Core

Full material declaration

-

Supplier information

-

Corporate social responsibility

-

Cst - Customisable | Core - Core service | Enb - Enabled

Software type Locally installed

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Veeva Chemical Solutions

by Veeva Systems Inc

About

www.industries.veeva.com

Veeva develops cloud technology solutions to address complex industry challenges. Veeva provides one single source of truth, globally, by unifying documents and data with processes across regulatory, product stewardship, quality, and health and safety. Companies like BASF, DSM, Syngenta, Aker BioMarine and Nufarm partner with Veeva to foster innovation, accelerate their product journey, produce high quality products and stay on top of regulatory changes. Veeva’s Chemical Product Suite enables companies to decrease product time to market and increase efficiency through a next generation cloud platform.

•

establish a global single source of truth to dramatically increases efficiency;

•

minimise business risk and environmental impact through better product safety;

•

meet global compliance requirements and accelerate product time to market;

•

profit from realtime reporting and analytics; and

•

increase collaboration across internal and external stakeholders.

info@industries.veeva.com +44 1865 398170

Service areas Regulatory compliance Chemical safety assessment Hazard communications Stewardship

Functions/Capabilities Regulatory compliance

Features •

•

Unifying regulatory activities with quality processes allows companies to influence innovation and accelerate time to market;

•

•

Veeva combines agile Product Stewardship and Quality Management with informed regulatory insights and facts;

built on a multitenant cloud platform, it delivers an easy-to-use, fast interface modeled on the consumer web; and Veeva’s Chemical Suite Key Capabilities – Compliance in REACh, CLP, EHS, Biocides.

Enb

Reporting

Core

Substance volume tracking

Core

Hazardous material management

Core

Chemical inventory management

Core

Chemical safety prediction

Enb

Product compliance

Core

Regulatory management

Core

Compliance assurance

Core

Supply chain management

Core

Hazard assessment

User experience Customisable, Off-the-shelf, Configurable

Pricing structure Pay-per-use, Subscription, Consumer-web UX like type-ahead & facetted search Integration capabilities ERP, PLM, EMIS, EHS, Formula Management, Open REST API to integrate with external systems

Partners

Exposure assessment

Cst Cst

Risk assessment

Core

Worker safety

Core

Environmental safety

Cst

Consumer safety

Cst

Hazard communication Supply chain communication SDS authoring

Core Enb

SDS management

Core

Incident management

Core

Labelling

Core

Stewardship • PWC Systems integrator

•

Deloitte Systems integrator

• NNIT Systems integrator

Product lifecycle management

Core

Full material declaration

Core

Supplier information

Core

Corporate social responsibility

Cst

Other support services •

RegulatoryOne – 2:00 Minutes Video

•

Webinar: How to REACH compliance in the EU and beyond

•

Solutions for the Chemical Industry

Cst – Customisable | Core – Core service | Enb – Enabled

Software type SaaS, Cloud based, multi-tenant, cloud-based SaaS

Systems integrator

Core

Data management (regulatory lists, substance data)

Chemical safety assessment

Product details

• Accenture

Change management (chemicals)

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Yordas Hive

by Yordas Group

About

www.yordasgroup.com/hive

Yordas Hive is a global chemicals management solution that brings you the information you need to stay compliant, wherever you do business. Actively maintained by Yordas Group, Hive works seamlessly with your own information to provide a powerful compliance solution.

The solution of choice for product stewardship and regulatory compliance across sectors, Yordas Hive offers a unique package of wide-ranging and in-depth expertise, high-quality current data and intuitive software features. Hive helps you comply with chemical regulations and anticipate future business risks, providing a cost-effective and time-saving solution.

Features • • •

•

Hive Notifier – customised compliance updates tailored to your needs; Hive Integrator – highly adaptable API solution for customised data access; Regulations – determine what regulatory barriers to market are for your business; Substances – global regulatory data on over 250,000 substances;

•

•

•

Products – create an in-house database of products to manage and maintain compliance;

Service areas Regulatory compliance Chemical safety assessment Hazard communications Stewardship

Functions/Capabilities Regulatory compliance Core

Materials – rvaluate and manage the risk of non-compliance for your complex articles; and

Data management (regulatory lists, substance data)

Core

Safety data sheets – protect staff by managing and distributing reliable safety information across sites.

Hazardous material management

Core

Chemical inventory management

Core

Chemical safety prediction

Core

Product compliance

Core

Regulatory management

Core

Reporting Substance volume tracking

Compliance assurance Supply chain management

Pricing structure Licensed, Subscription, Annual subscription with 14 day free trial Integration capabilities ERP, EHS, Formula Management, API Functionality

Cst

Chemical safety assessment Hazard assessment Exposure assessment

-

Risk assessment

Core

Worker safety

Core

Environmental safety

Core

Consumer safety

Core

Hazard communication Supply chain communication

Partners

SDS authoring

• Yordas Group

Incident management

Consultancy

Cst

SDS management Labelling

Cst Cst Core Core

Stewardship Product lifecycle management Full material declaration

Cst

Supplier information

-

Corporate social responsibility

-

Other support services •

Hazard Communication

•

Sustainability

•

Green Chemistry

Cst – Customisable | Core – Core service | Enb – Enabled

User experience Customisable, Off-the-shelf, Configurable

+44 1524 594155

Change management (chemicals)

Product details Software type SaaS, Cloud based

hive@yordasgroup.com

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Directory Software solutions currently used by the Chemical Watch audience Software/service

Vendor/Provider

Website

3E Generate

Verisk 3E

www.verisk3e.com

3E Insight™ for Chemicals

Verisk 3E

www.verisk3e.com

3E Protect

Verisk 3E

www.verisk3e.com

3E SDS™

Verisk 3E

www.verisk3e.com

Access

Microsoft

www.products.office.com/en-gb/access

ACD/Name

ACD/Labs

www.acdlabs.com

Active Steward

Penman Consulting

www.activesteward.com

Agile

Oracle

www.oracle.com

ALMEGO®

CHYMEIA ApS

www.chymeia.com

AlphaOmega

CHYMEIA ApS

www.chymeia.com

AMBIT

Cefic

www.cefic.org

Aspen PIMS™

AspenTech

www.aspentech.com

Assent Compliance Platform (ACP)

Assent Compliance

www.assentcompliance.com

BatchMaster ERP

BatchMaster Software

www.batchmaster.com

Bill of Materials Viewer

BOMCheck

www.bomcheck.net

BIOVIA™

Dassault Systèmes®

www.accelrys.com

BOM Check

thinkstep

www.bomcheck.net

BOM Manager

Silcon Expert

www.siliconexpert.com

C2P

Compliance & Risks

www.complianceandrisks.com

DXC Technology

https://public.cdxsystem.com/en/web/cdx/home

CDX Compliance Data eXchange

p.27

p.28

ChemAlert

Risk Management Technologies www.rmtglobal.com

ChemAxon

ChemAxon

www.chemaxon.com

CHEMDOX®

www.chemdox.com

PerkinElmer

www.perkinelmer.co.uk

Chemeter

SIAM

www.siam-it.com/en/solutions/safety-data-sheetsoftware-chemeter

p.30

ChemGes

DR-Software

www.dr-software.com

p.31

CHEMDOX® ChemDraw

Chemical EHS Management Software

ERA Environmental Management www.era-environmental.com/industry/chemicals Solutions

Chemical ERP Software

TGI

www.tgiltd.com

Chemical Health Environment Safety System (CHESS)

Bureau Veritas

www.bureauveritas.com

Chemical Inventory Management

Enviance

www.enviance.com/chemical-management-softwaresolutions

Chemical Inventory Software

Sysflow

www.sysflow.co.uk

Chemical Management Database (CMD)

Dynasys Solutions

www.cmd-system.com

Chemical Management Navigator

M3V Data Management

www.m3vsoftware.com/chemical-management-navigator/

Chemical Management Software

Enablon

www.enablon.com/applications/chemical-managementsoftware

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Software/service

Vendor/Provider

Website

Chemical Management Software

Gensuite

www.gensuite.com/products-and-services/chemicalmanagement-software/

Chemical Safety

Chemical Safety Software

www.chemicalsafety.com

Chemical Safety Communication Software

UL

www.ul-scs.com

Chemical Watch

Chemical Watch

www.chemicalwatch.com

Chemicals Manufacturing ERP Software

BatchMaster

www.batchmaster.com

Chemius

Bens Consulting

www.bens-consulting.com/en/

ChemKnowledge System

RightAnswer

www.rightanswer.com/index.php

ChemKnowledge® System

RightAnswer®

www.rightanswer.com

ChemLabel Pro

DURA-ID

www.dura-id.com

ChemLinked

REACH24H Consulting Group

www.chemlinked.com

ChemManager

DHI

www.dhigroup.com

Chempax

Datacor

www.datacor.com

chemSHERPA

chemSHERPA

www.chemsherpa.net/chemSHERPA/english/

ChemSoft EH&S

ChemSoft

www.chemsoft.co.uk

ChemSpider

Royal Society of Chemistry

www.chemspider.com

Chemwatch

Chemwatch

www.chemwatch.net

Chesar

ECHA

https://chesar.echa.europa.eu

CHESSOL PIF Solution

Lisam Systems

www.lisam.com/en-us/solutions/chessol-pif-solution/

Cintellate

SAI Global

www.saiglobal.com

Circular Economy Software

H2 Compliance

www.h2compliance.com//circular-economy-software/

CleanChain

ADEC Innovation

www.cleanchain.adec-innovations.com

Cloud-Based Compliance Software

Lorax Compliance

www.loraxcompliance.com

CloudSDS

CloudSDS

www.cloudsds.com/home

Cognos

IBM

www.ibm.com/uk-en/marketplace/business-intelligence

Compliance Data Exchange (CDX)

DXC Technology (DXC)

www.dxc.technology

Compliance Map Enterprise

The Compliance Map

www.thecompliancemap.com

Compliance reporting

Ithos Global

www.ithosglobal.com/index.html

Compliance Software

Nimonik

www.nimonik.com

Coptis Lab

Coptis

www.coptis.com

Cority Chemical Management for EHSQ

Cority

https://www.cority.com

COSHH Essentials

HSE

www.hse.gov.uk/coshh/essentials/index.htm

COSHH Management Software

Alcumus Sypol

www.alcumusgroup.com

Dakota

Dakota Software

www.dakotasoft.com

DATABASE MANAGER and CENTRALIZED DATABASE

Laboratory of Mathematical Chemistry

www.oasis-lmc.org

Decernis

Decernis

www.decernis.com

DeDoks

Trade Wind

www.twnl.nl/en/dedoks/

Derek Nexus

Lhasa Limited

www.lhasalimited.org/products/derek-nexus.htm

Selerant

www.selerant.com

Appian

www.appian.com/resources/wp-dynamic-casemanagement/

Devex Baseline for Chemical Industries Dynamic Case Management

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Software/service

Vendor/Provider

Website

Dynamics Software

Microsoft

www.dynamicssoftware.com

E-SDB

eska Engineering company mbH www.eska.eu

easyTRA

Jansen-Systems

www.jansen-systems.com

Ecobio

www.ecobiomanager.com

Eco@web

EcoOnline

www.ecoonline.com/produkter/eco-publisher

EcoWebDesk

EcoIntense GmbH

www.ecointense.com

Ecobio Manager

efam (Environmental Fate Automated Modelling) knoell

www.knoell.com

egsidaX

eska

www.eska.eu/gefahrstoffmanagement/egsida-x

EH&S Software

Chemical Safety International

www.chemicalsafety.com

EH&S Software

Enviance

www.enviance.com

EHS & Quality Management Software (QMS)

Intelex

www.intelex.com

EHS & Risk Management Software

Enablon

www.enablon.com

EHS Compliance Software

Quantum Compliance

www.usequantum.com

EHS Compliance Suite

regAction

www.regaction.com/en

EHS Enterprise Software Suite

ImageWave

www.imagewave.com

EHS Insight

StarTex Software

www.startexsoftware.com

EHS Management Software

Perillon

www.perillon.com

EHS Management Software

SAP EHS

www.sap.com/index.html

EHS Software

EMEX

www.emex.com

EHS Software

MIRS

www.mirsinfo.com/soft.htm

EHS Software

ProcessMAP

www.processmap.com

EHS Software Partner Platforms

Enhesa

www.enhesa.com

H2 Compliance

www.h2compliance.com

ENOVIA™ PLM

Dassault Systèmes®

www.3ds.com/en-uk

Enterprise EHSQ Software

Cority

www.cority.com/ehsq-software

Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) Software

EtQ

www.etq.com

Epicor

Epicor Software Corporation

www.epicor.com

EPOCH Environmental Compliance and Task Management Software

Logical Data Solutions, Inc.

www.logicalds.com

epos Software & Service AG

www.gefahrstoff.com

EpyPlus

Telematic

www.epy.it

EPYplus - Regulatory Compliance Software

Telematic

www.epy.it

Euphor

Euphor

www.euphoreach.com

Lisam Systems

www.lisam.com/en-us

FACET

FERA

www.ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/research-topic/food-contactmaterials

Fasim 2.1

Philips Innovation Services

www.innovationservices.philips.com

Formulator Chem

Formulator Software

www.formulatorus.com

FOUNDATION SDS Management

Cornerstone

www.corner-enviro.com

gComply

Decernis

www.decernis.com

gComply Plus

Decernis

www.decernis.com

element1

epos hazardous substances manager

ExESS

p.33

p.34

p.35

p.36

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Software/service

Vendor/Provider

Website

Gensuite SDS Systems

Gensuite

www.gensuite.com

GeSi³

GeSi Software GmbH

www.gesi.de

GHS Professional

UL

www.psi.ul.com/en/products/ghs-professional

Global Data Brokerage Platform

ReachCentrum, an ERM Group company

www.reachcentrum.eu

Global Environmental Management System (GEMS)

Foresite Compliance Cloud

www.foresitesystems.com

Global MSDS Solutions & Hazmix®

GlobalMSDS

www.globalmsds.co.uk

GoChem

GoChem

www.gochem.co

Granta MI

Granta Design

www.grantadesign.com

Green Arrow Labs

Green Arrow Labs

www.greenarrowlabs.com

GreenData Manager

GreenSoft Technology

www.greensofttech.com/site

GreenScreen

GreenScreen

www.greenscreenchemicals.org

GUSAR

Infor

www.infor.com

Selerant

www.selerant.com/ehs-software

hazMIN®

Logical Technology, Inc.

www.comply1.com/hazmin

HazMix

GlobalMSDS

www.globalmsds.co.uk/index.php

HELASOFT SERCure

HELASOFT

www.helasoft.com/?L=0

Heritage Environmental Information System

Heritage

www.heritage-enviro.com

Horizon Scanning

Decernis

www.decernis.com

IBM Lotus Workflow

IBM

www.ibm.com/uk-en/marketplace/lotus-workflow

ICTools

InfoChem

www.infochem.de/index.shtml

IMDS

DXC Technology

https://public.cdxsystem.com/en/web/cdx/home

InfoDyne

InfoDyne, Inc.

www.infodyne.fr

Infor M3

Infor

www.infor.com/products/m3

Insight

DEKRA Insight

www.dekra-insight.com/en

Intelligent Authoring On-Demand

Sphera

www.sphera.com

Intelligent Compliance Solutions for Chemical and Workplace Safety

Verisk 3E

www.verisk3e.com

p.39

Intelligent Compliance Solutions for Product Safety & Stewardship

Verisk 3E

www.verisk3e.com

p.40

IPCA

IPCA

www.ipcasolutions.com

iPoint Systems

iPoint Systems

www.ipoint-systems.com

iPoint-systems

www.ipoint-systems.com

iSafeRat® Online

KREATiS

www.kreatis.eu

iScienceSearch

Digital Science

www.isciencesearch.com

IUCLID

ECHA

https://iuclid6.echa.europa.eu/

Keller Online

J. J. Keller & Associates

www.kelleronline.com

Label Enterprise

Hibiscus-PLC

www.hibiscus-plc.co.uk

Legislation Alert

Scitegrity

www.scitegrity.co.uk

Lisam ExESS

Lisam Systems

www.lisam.com/en-us

LOLI Database (Lists Of LIsts)

UL

www.psi.ul.com/en/products/loli-database

Hazex

iPoint Compliance and Approval App

p.37

p.38

p.41

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Software/service

Vendor/Provider

Website

Lycos Athena

Lycos

www.lycos.ltd.uk

Macola 10

Macola Software

www.macola.com

Material Compliance Software

iPoint-systems GmbH

www.ipoint-systems.com

MDL® ISIS/Base

AKos

www.akosgmbh.de/Archive/isis_base.htm

Mendix

Mendix

www.mendix.com

Movex

Movex

www.movex-solutions.com

MSDGen

Verisk 3E

www.verisk3e.com

MSDS Authoring

ChemHaz Solutions

www.chemhazsolutions.com

Velocity EHS

www.msdsonline.com

NCI Global - A CAS solution

CAS

www.cas.org/products/nci-global

NCI Global®

CAS

www.cas.org

NCIS (National Chemicals Information System) for Korea

NCIS

www.ncis.nier.go.kr/en/mttrList.do

Paradigm 3

Paradigm Software

www.paradigm3.com.au

Paros

Infor

www.infor.com

Pharos Project

Pharos

www.pharosproject.net

PHAworks 5

Primatech

www.primatech.com

PI System™

OSIsoft

www.osisoft.com

PLM and Compliance Cloud

Selerant

www.selerant.com

PRISYM Chemica

PRISYM ID

www.prisymid.com

ProcessMAP Enterprise

ProcessMAP

www.processmap.com/solutions/enterprise

Product Compliance Management

REACHECK Solutions GmbH

www.reacheck.eu

Product Compliance Software

thinkstep

www.thinkstep.com

Product Stewardship Services and Solutions

CGI

www.cgi.com/en

Product Stewardship Software Solutions

Enablon

enablon.com

MSDSonline SDS/Chemical Management solution

Product Stewardship with Intelligent Authoring & Sphera Comply Plus

www.spherasolutions.com

Product Supply Chain Intelligence

UL

www.psi.ul.com

ProductTraq

Baytouch

www.baytouch.com

ProductVision®

Advanced Software Design

www.asdsoftware.com

Prometheus

Hibiscus PLC

www.hibiscus-plc.co.uk

ProSteward360

CGI

www.cgi.com/en

PTC Windchill

PTC

www.ptc.com/en/products/plm/plm-products/windchill

PTC Windchill Product Analytics

PTC

www.ptc.com/en

Lisam Systems

www.lisam.com/en-us

Q-Pulse

Ideagen

www.ideagen.com/products/q-pulse

QSAR Toolbox

OECD

www.oecd.org

QSARINS

University of Insubria

www.qsar.it

Qualisys

Qualisys GmbH

www.qualisys.eu/index.php?id=102&L=2

QUMAS DocCompliance

Qumas (part of Biovia)

www.qumas.com

REACH Compliance Software

iPoint-systems Gmbh

www.ipoint-systems.com

PubliChem

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Software/service

Vendor/Provider

Website

REACH Delivery

REACH Delivery International

www.reachdelivery.com/reach.html

REACHAcross™

UL Environment

www.ulreachacross.com

REACHGallery

ServiREACH

www.servireach.com

REACHLINKED

Chemical Regulatory Services Ltd www.reachlinked.com

REACHSuite

Baytouch

www.reachsuite.com

RegScan One™

RegScan

www.regscan.com

Regulatory Change Management

Mitratech

www.mitratech.com

Regulatory Compliance

Red-On-Line

www.red-on-line.com

Regulatory Compliance tool

Airsweb

www.airsweb.com

RoHS and REACH Compliance Software

Salve Software Services

www.salvesoft.com

S-CIRCABC

European Commission

https://circabc.europa.eu

Safety Data Sheet Management

SafeTec

www.safetec.hsi.com

Safety365

Sevron

www.sevron.co.uk

SAP

SAP

www.sap.com/uk/about.html

SAP EHS

SAP

www.sap.com/uk/about.html

SAP EHS consultancy, support, maitenance and eSpheres training

www.espheres.com

SAP EHS ERD and ERC software

SAP

www.sap.com/uk/about.html

SAP PLM

SAP

www.sap.com/uk/about.html

SAP S4/HANA

SAP

www.sap.com/uk/products/s4hana-erp.html

SAP solutions for product compliance and environment, health and safety

SAP SE

www.sap.com/corporate/en.html

SciFinder®

CAS

www.cas.org

SciveraLENS®

Scivera

www.scivera.com

SDS Factory

EcoMundo

www.ecomundo.eu/en/software/sds-factory

SDS Factory

Sigma-Aldrich

www.sigmaaldrich.com/united-kingdom.html

SDS Solutions

Global Safety Management®

www.gsmsds.com

SDSPro (GHSPro)

MSDSpro

www.sdspro.com

SEIRICH

National Research and Safety Institute (INRS)

www.seirich.fr/seirich-web/index.xhtml

Sevaluate™

TT Consulting

www.ttenvironmental.co.uk

SiteHawk Communicator

SiteHawk

www.sitehawk.com

SMART Chemical Inventory

Compliance Technology Group

www.compliancetechnologygroup.com

SMARTdoc

SMARTdoc

www.smartdoc.eu

Toxnot

www.toxnot.com

Soutron

Soutron

www.soutron.com

Sphera

Sphera

www.sphera.com

SpheraCloud™

Sphera

www.sphera.com

Sphera Solutions

www.sphera.com

Stoffenmanager®

Cosanta

www.stoffenmanager.nl

SupplierSoft

SupplierSoft Inc.

www.suppliersoft.com

Software for Chemical Hazard Transparency, Management, and Compliance

Sphera Product Stewardship Solutions

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Software/service

Vendor/Provider

Website

Supply Chain Guru

LLamasoft

www.llamasoft.com/supply-chain-guru-brochure/

Supply Chain Management

Decernis

www.decernis.com

Supply Chain Software

Enablon

www.enablon.com

Targeted Risk Assessment (TRA)

European Centre for www.ecetoc.org Ecotoxicology and Toxicology of Chemicals (ECETOC)

TDMS

ISA

www.isatest.com

Teamcenter

Siemens

www.plm.automation.siemens.com/en

TERA

Toxicology and Risk Assessment www.plm.automation.siemens.com/global/en/products/ teamcenter

TinyTERM

Century Software

www.censoft.com

ToxFMD Screened Chemistry™ Library

ToxServices LLC

www.toxservices.com

ToxNot

toxnot PBC

www.toxnot.com

ToxPlanet

ToxPlanet

www.toxplanet.com

TraceGains® Network

TraceGains

www.tracegains.com

TrackWise QMS Software and Solutions

Sparta Systems

www.spartasystems.com/products/trackwise-qms

UL Self-Service GHS SDS

UL The Wercs

www.ulghs.com

UMCO Hazard Communication Sytstem

UMCO

www.umco.de/en

Veeva RegulatoryOne

Veeva Systems Inc

www.industries.veeva.com

Veeva Systems Inc

www.veeva.com

VelocityEHS Platform

Velocity EHS

www.ehs.com

Vertére's Inventory Manager

Vertére

www.vertere.com

WASPS Software

Environmental Science Ltd.

www.esldatasheets.com/ihomepage_c.html

Wercs

UL

www.ul.com

WERCS Studio

UL

www.psi.ul.com/en/products/wercs-studio

Yordas

www.yordasgroup.com/hive

Veeva Chemical Solutions

Yordas Hive

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