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Product Compliance for High Tech and Electronics with SAP®

Your products are built from thousands of components, and each one needs reliable substance data. With SAP Product Compliance as your single source of truth, your component data stays complete, customer declarations are ready on request, and compliance keeps pace with your release cycles.

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Electronics Move Fast. Your Compliance Data Has to Keep Up.

Whether you produce semiconductors, electronic components, or complete devices, your compliance work is shaped by three things: pressure on time to market, growing component counts, and customers who expect complete declarations.

Thousands of components, many variants

Thousands of components, many variants

Every product generation adds components, and configurable devices multiply them across every variant. BOMs grow deeper with each generation, and compliance needs substance data for every material inside every part. 

Compliance decides time to market

Compliance decides time to market

Development cycles keep getting shorter, while components are replaced again and again during design and regulations change along the way. Every swap and every new regulated substance needs a new compliance check before the product can ship. 

RoHS rules multiply worldwide

RoHS rules multiply worldwide

More and more countries set their own restrictions on hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment, each with its own scope, exemptions, and deadlines. Exemptions expire, substance lists grow, and every change raises the question of which products are affected.

Your customers want proof

Your customers want proof

OEMs and distributors expect RoHS and REACH declarations, IPC-1752 and IPC-1754 material declarations, and packaging Declarations of Conformity. How quickly and completely you answer can make a difference in winning and keeping business.  

The Regulations Every Electronics Manufacturer Faces

RoHS

Keep electrical and electronic equipment within substance limits or covered by exemptions.

- EU RoHS Directive
- China RoHS
- Korea RoHS

REACH SVHC 

Identify SVHCs above 0.1 percent and inform your customers.

- REACH SVHC Candidate List
- UK REACH

EU PPWR and global packaging EPRs 

Report packaging data for devices and accessories. 

- EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation


PFAS

Locate PFAS in cables, coatings, and components.

- ECHA on PFAS
- US TSCA Section 8(a)(7)

POPs

Rule out POPs such as certain flame retardants. 

- EU POPs


US TSCA

Keep chemicals restricted under US law out of your articles. 

- US EPA TSCA

California Prop 65 

Warn Californian buyers about listed substances.

- OEHHA - CA Prop 65



EU Battery Regulation 

Check the batteries in your devices against the EU substance limits. 

- EU Battery Regulation


Conflict Minerals

Check for tin, tantalum, tungsten, and gold in your products, and make sure the required documentation is in place.

- EU Law on Conflict Minerals
- US Dodd-Frank on Conflict Minerals

How it affects you

The pressure in electronics rarely comes from one regulation. It comes from volume and speed together. Growing component counts, frequent design changes, and alternate parts sourced at short notice mean that the compliance status of a product can change between two releases. When declarations arrive by email and live in spreadsheets, a manual approach is always a step behind: launches wait for missing supplier data, and it is hard to say with certainty which products an expiring RoHS exemption or a new SVHC affects.

What you can do about it

Speed comes from structure, and your product data already lives in SAP. With SAP Product Compliance as your single source of truth, compliance runs on the same BOM and sales data that engineering, purchasing, and production work with, and every change reaches your compliance team automatically. New parts can easily be checked against regulations such as RoHS and REACH, component databases can be connected directly, and the declarations your customers and regulators ask for come out of the same system.

How opesus Supports Your Product Compliance in SAP

CONSULTING

Start From a Proven Setup

In electronics and high tech, your compliance process has to keep pace with your release cycles from day one.
That is why opesus never starts from a blank page: our consulting builds on long-standing experience and best practices from years of discrete industry projects, so you see results fast.

Product Compliance Essentials 

A fast, standardized implementation of SAP Product Compliance* at a fixed price. Pre-configuration, templates, and documentation bring together best practices from high tech, electronics, and other discrete industry projects.

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Packaging Compliance

A scalable packaging data management process for PPWR and global EPR in SAP. From a single source of truth for packaging data and structured supplier data collection to reports and Declarations of Conformity with SAP Responsible Design and Production.

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*SAP Product and REACH Compliance or S/4HANA for product compliance (classic functionality)

MANAGE

Compliance Data at Scale in SAP

Electronics portfolios change constantly. These tools keep the data in SAP accurate as parts are added, regulatory lists are updated, and existing declarations are migrated or reused, without your team touching every record.

Smart Data Maintenance

Easy and efficient maintenance of large amounts of data in SAP Product Compliance, with significantly less effort and a lower risk of incorrect entries.



Regulatory Content Load 

Migrate regulatory substance list declarations and full material declarations to SAP Product Compliance via Excel, with integrated validation checks. Copy declaration data between related lists such as EU RoHS and China RoHS.

Yordas Regulatory Content Connector

Automate regulatory content updates in SAP Product Compliance. As soon as regulations are updated in Yordas Helix, new data flows directly into your SAP system.


Discrete Industry Essentials

A packaged toolkit that makes daily SAP Product Compliance work faster and more reliable, with always-current BOM compliance structures, enhanced compliance data search, a ready-to-use report library, and branded compliance documents.

COLLECT

Compliance Data From Your Supply Chain

In electronics, much of the data you need already exists in component databases and industry platforms: SiliconExpert covers over one billion parts, and BOMcheck holds compliance data for more than 29 million parts. opesus connects SAP to these sources and to your suppliers directly, so data arrives structured, gets validated, and closes gaps before they slow down a release, even when a shortage forces you to qualify an alternate part or a new source at short notice.

Declarable Substances Data Collection

Orchestrate a multi-channel data collection strategy that meets your suppliers where they are. Supplier declarations are automatically requested, collected, validated, and stored in SAP Product Compliance.

SiliconExpert Connector

Take full advantage of your SiliconExpert subscription by pulling compliance data for over one billion parts directly into SAP. Updates are synchronized automatically, so your data stays current.


BOMcheck
Connector

Import substance declarations from BOMcheck directly into SAP. Pull public declarations or send requests to over 13,000 suppliers on the platform they already use, all without leaving your SAP environment.

Packaging Data Collection

Collaborate with suppliers and partners to collect packaging data for EPR reporting and compliance, built and maintained to complement SAP Responsible Design and Production.


Proven Across the Discrete Industry

Don't just take our word for it. Read how our customers elevate and automate product compliance in SAP with opesus.
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Learn how sensor specialist SICK uses their existing SAP data to automate compliance notifications for a portfolio of around 144,000 products.

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Discover why Franke chose opesus Product Compliance Collaboration to automate supplier data collection.

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Find out how Kärcher uses SAP Product and REACH Compliance as their central database for material compliance.

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